"That's All I Ever Want from You Baby"

This morning, I transcribed a couple more lines of the bass part in "That's All I Ever Want from You Baby" (I've been slowly writing it out since I learned it a few months ago), and I realized something about the choruses.  The bass part is different every time, but the first two iterations are something like this:

The lyrics also vary, but they're something like:

That is all I ever want

That is all I ever want

That is all I ever want from you, baby

In the first two iterations of the chorus, the bass plays diatonically ascending phrases spanning an octave (F to F), and these phrases highlight (and even literally underline) the "all"s in the lyrics because every note in the song's key is included.

"That's All I Ever Want from You Baby"

I listened to the As Was EP yester-day and noticed a small feature in "That's All I Ever Want from You Baby."  Under the phrases "all the years" in the first verse and "every night" in the second, the bass plays a chromatic phrase (Bb A Ab G), musically giving a sense of the entirety of "all" and "every."  It's a bit more noticeable in the second verse because there it's played an octave higher than in the first verse.

"That's All I Ever Want from You Baby"

A couple weeks ago, I figured out the chords for "That's All I Ever Want from You Baby" and noticed a handful of things.

With the disclaimer that I may have something wrong, here's the chord progression:

Chorus

|: F major | Bb major :|

F major | C major | Bb major

[resolves with F major]

Verses

|: F major | F augmented | Bb major | C major :|

F major | F major 7 | Bb major | G major

The song is in F major, but there are a couple accidentals in these chords (C# in F augmented and B natural in G major).  Because these pitches venture outside of the song's key, there's something of a musical sense of the encompassing nature of the "all"s in the first verse ("Let me kiss away all your tears / And let me chase away all your fears / Baby, love me though all the years") and the "every" in the second verse ("When you're kissin' me, hold me tight / And when you're holding me, oh, baby, do it right / Oh, let me be with you, girl, every night").  This "every" is also sung with three syllables, an articulation that gives a sense of number.

I also noticed that "fears" (A G) in the line "And let me chase away all your fears" and "night" (A G F) in the line "Oh, let me be with you, girl, every night" are sung with melismas, giving a sense of entirety (for "all") and number (for "every").