All I Need (From the Original Motion Picture “The Color Purple”)

Easy, I'm takin' it easy

'Cause life's too short to give my heart so freely

Simple, what I want is simple

Like fallin' rain, summer and spring, here I am

All I know is lonely ain't that bad

Without the tears and without the past

And memories of how I kept hangin' on

I am all I need for real

'Cause now I see that what I wanted in you was always in me

Real

Silence, it was beautiful silence

After I got over my last heartbreak, it was quiet

Now, here for, what are you here for?

To create complications and take me through changes?

Just tell me now

All I know is lonely ain't that bad

Without the tears and without the past

And the memories of how I kept hangin' on (Hangin' on, hangin' on, hangin' on)

I am all I need for real

Now I see that what I wanted in you was always in me

For real

I was chasin' love and it just kept runnin'

I settled and you wasn't the one

I gave you everything

That's when our love was free

Don't know why you tried to make me pay

What's the reason, boy, can you explain?

I never knew how to love me

Maybe that was the cause

Maybe he's not your fault

Can't blame for what you don't know

Should've never trusted you

But now I know that

I am all I need for real

Now I see what I wanted in you was always in me

For real, for real (I am all I need for real)

And I am all I need

But now I see that what I wanted in you was always in me, eeh

Ooh, ah (Ooh)

Oh, yes (Ooh)

That you

That you thought I wasn't goin' nowhere

Didn't you, oh (Ooh)

But I'm (Ooh)

But I am (Ooh)

I'm happy about it (Ooh)

Yes, I am (Ooh)

I was dependant on you (Ooh)

Now I'm dependant on me (Ooh)

Ooh