You're All I Need (song)

Infobox Single
Name = You're All I Need


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Artist = Mötley Crüe
from Album = Girls, Girls, Girls
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B-side =
Released = 1987
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Genre = Glam Metal
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Writer = Nikki Sixx
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Last single = "Wild Side"
(1987)
This single = "You're All I Need"
(1987)
Next single = "Dr. Feelgood"
(1989)
Misc =

"You're All I Need" is a song written by Nikki Sixx and features on the Mötley Crüe album "Girls, Girls, Girls". The piano melody was written by bandmate Tommy Lee.

The song was praised by Jon Bon Jovi as "the best pop song Motley Crue have ever written". He was subsequently told to go back and actually listen to the lyrics.

ong meaning

There are many opinions about what the meaning behind the story is about.

The most notable one being about a girlfriend that Nikki Sixx had who cheated on him with an actor on General Hospital, who had a song out called 'You're All I Need'. Nikki switched the purpose of it and wrote his version and gave it to his girlfriend.Apparently he wrote the song with no intention of recording it, but the rest of the band praised the song and it was recorded for the "Girls Girls Girls" album.
(According to Sixx's book, "The Heroin Diaries," the song "is" about the girlfriend he had who cheated on him with the General Hospital actor. There is a journal entry from the time when the song was written, and he explains that Tommy Lee was playing the song on the piano, and Nikki wrote the lyrics for the piano part.)

It has also been mentioned that this song was written about Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen.

Even though the video was not particularly violent (except for the lyrics), the video was banned from MTV, due to the realistic gruesome scenes depicting domestic abuse, murder, and subsequent arrest.

Lyrics

The blade of my knife faced away from your heart
Those last few nights it turned and sliced you apart

This love that I tell now feel lonely as hell
From this padded prison cell

So many times I said you'd only be mine
I gave my blood and my tears and loved you cyanide
When you took my lips I took your breath
Sometimes love's better off dead

" [chorus] "
You're all I need
Make you only mine
(I loved you)
So I set you free
I had to take your life
You're all I need
You're all I need
And I loved you so
But you didn't love me

Laid out cold now we're both alone
But killing you helped me keep you at home
I guess it was bad cuz love can be sad
But we finally made the news
Tied up smiling I thought you were happy
Never opened your eyes I thought you were napping
I've got so much to learn
About love in this world
But we finally made the news.

You're all I need make you only mine
(I loved you) So I set you free
I had to take your life (all I need)
You're all I need and I loved you so
So I put you to sleep
You're all I need
Make you only mine
You're all I need (all I need)...