Although Sister Hazel made it big with "All For You" on their second album "Somewhere More Familiar" it actually debuted on the first. I loved the song when it came out and went out and bought the CD. Yet even back then, after I had heard all of the other pieces on the album, "All For You" did not place among my favorites. Nowadays, this song is usually the one I'll skip over on my I-Pod, to get to one of the more under-played.
"It's hard to say what it is I see in you,
Wonder if I'll always be with you,
But words can't say, and I can't do
Enough to prove, it's all for you"
After contemplating the mortal limits of language I can look at the song in a slightly different light. I tend to see it as a relatively straightforward love song, and it is for the most part. Yet it also points to some of what was touched on in "Sometimes": that it is impossible to fully capture our experience with language. Words are not quite rich enough. This is song of a deep and passionate love, and of the frustration of not quite being able to convey it fully. I imagine the singer asking that his beloved simply rest in faith in his love. Despite his inability to completely prove its depth she can be comfortable knowing his love is there.
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