Today we have a number from Ryan Shupe & the Rubber Band's latest album, Last Man Standing. You can listen to the album version through the band's Jukebox at Shupe.net, or here's a live version I really love:
(Hopefully you won't have the same buffering trouble I did today. I think it's time to reinstall XP.)
This one always makes me misty-eyed, for not only am I a complete sucker for a good retrospectiv, and have been to a lot of the places and experienced a few of the things Ryan Shupe sings about, but I'm blessed enough to get to feel this way about a man who feels the same way about me.
All I Need
I’ve been to New York City Central Park
Then headed out to upstate Lake Champlain
Crossed up to Montreal and heard a band playing mandolins
While we were standing in the rain
I’ve seen castle walls and waterfalls
And bridges spanning over Venetian waterways
Backpack summer drifting through the mountains
Filled with European hostel stays
but all I need is you, here, falling in my arms
and me, there, subject to your charms
and I don’t know if I have ever felt this way before
all I need is you
I’ve sailed out in the San Francisco Bay
And I’ve seen fireworks light up the night
I’ve eaten dinner with good friends
Authentic Mexican patio dining in the moonlight
I’ve spent days skiing sunny powdered peaks
And hiking up to zions where the angels land
I’ve dropped off cliffs into the crystal blue
And I’ve set up tents on golden sand
but all I need is you, here, falling in my arms
and me, there, subject to your charms
and I don’t know if I have ever felt this way before
all I need is you
I’ve been all over the rocky mountains
Splashed in England’s Hyde Park fountains
Seen Denali rising up at three A.M.
Watched the wind blow through the redwood forest
Heard the tabernacle chorus
Singing songs like angels do in heaven
but all I need is you, here, falling in my arms
and me, there, subject to your charms
and I don’t know if I have ever felt this way before
all I need is you
