All I Need (Within Temptation song)

Infobox Single
Name = All I Need


Artist = Within Temptation
from Album = The Heart of Everything
B-side = "The Last Time"
Released = October 2007
Format = CD single, digital download
Recorded =
Genre = Symphonic metal
Length = 4:52 (album version)
4:03 (single version)
Label = Roadrunner Records
Writer = Sharon den Adel, Robert Westerholt
Producer =
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Certification =
Chart position =
Last single = "The Howling"
(2007)
This single = "All I Need"
(2007)
Next single = "Forgiven"
(2008)

"All I Need" is a power ballad written by Sharon den Adel and Robert Westerholt for Within Temptation's fourth studio album "The Heart of Everything" (2007).

The Song

In a recent interview, [ [http://darkmoments.de/itvwteng.htm Interview mit Sharon den Adel von Within Temptation ] ] , Within Temptation vocalist Sharon den Adel discussed "All I Need".

"I think lyric-wise this song is something that a lot of people can relate to. It's about the fact that [everybody] , you know, everybody gets this point in life…And that is what the song is about, that you're trying to hold on to the things that are important, that you try to find something that you can believe in and which is worth living, if it's family or the love of your life or (laugh) things that make your life worth [living] . And this person in the song is really disappointed [with a lot of things] , because a lot of people are fake or things don't turn out the way she had hoped they would do. And this is what the song is about and I think it's something that a lot of people can relate to."

Music video

The video for this single was shot on September 30 in Berlin. It was released online on October 19, 2007. The video consists of a dream world in Sharon's mind. The band, including Sharon is shown tied to walls of their cells. In the end of the video Sharon is shown in a hospital bed.

Sharon discussed the video in an interview on October 10th:

"The story is very short and very simple actually. It's a dream. A lot of times she sees a lot of schizophrenic things, you know, happening in her mind…" "Lea: It's you in a hospital-bed there…"

"Sharon: Ja, and they are monitoring my dreams, so they are analysing what I`m dreaming. And that's basically the video and it just suited best with the lyrics, because it's very difficult to express things which are very symbolic, which you can't really show in images like “hope”. How do you express “hope”, you know? Or “believe in something”or “keeping something real” or “people who are fake”. You can image that very well in a way of a dream. That's why we did it in that way. [ [http://darkmoments.de/itvwteng.htm Interview mit Sharon den Adel von Within Temptation ] ] '

The video contains many elements and imagery from the 2000-movie "The Cell".

Formats and track listings

These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of "All I Need".

*5-track digipack single
#"All I Need" (single version)
#"All I Need" (album version)
#"The Last Time" (demo version)
#"Frozen" (demo version)
#"Our Solemn Hour" (demo version)

*2-Track single
#"All I Need" (single version)
#"All I Need" (album version)

*iTunes download single
#"All I Need" (single version)
#"All I Need" (album version)
#"Hand Of Sorrow" (demo version)
#"Ice Queen" (acoustic live)

Charts

References

Within Temptation Myspace [http://myspace.com/withintemptation]