All of My Love

ALL OF MY LOVE (TAKE IT FROM ME NOW) [Outtake from All Your Heroes Become Villains]

Music and lyrics by Ed Hale. Vocals and guitar: Ed Hale. Lead guitar: Fernando Perdomo. Drums: Ricardo Mazzi. Bass guitar: Roger Houdaille. Piano: Allan Gabay. Recorded at Hit Factory Studios. Miami, FL 2006. Engineered and Produced by Fred Freeman. Mixed by Fred Freeman.

All of my love ending up on an “outtakes album” is an odd occurrence. It is one of those things that just doesn’t quite make sense and yet it is what it is. We had originally tracked the song for the All Your Heroes Become Villains CD along with ten others and by all accounts had every intention of finishing the song and releasing it. I had written the song one summer in Italy; alone in the middle of the night on some piano in the living room of this stranger’s house in Rome I was renting while they were away on holiday. I had been insanely inspired by an indie rock band down in Miami called Humbert who had this thing they did so fucking well. Songs that start off quiet and delicate and then slowly building up to a raucous climactic ending with the whole band pulsating eighth notes simultaneously in your face. When we got to Dungeon Studios to start our overdubs for the Heroes album All of my love was one of the first songs we started working on. Allan was in the studio that day attempting to redo his piano part on that song and add strings and other orchestral parts. I was outside on the phone. An hour or so into the session Allan came outside to have a smoke and told me “We’re scrapping this song. I’m just not feeling it and none of us understand how this song fits in with the rest of the album.” “What do you mean ‘scrapping the song?’” I asked a little confused and surprised. I went into the control room and spoke to Fred Freeman our producer. He was his usual grumpy self, understanding but dismissive and not in the mood to debate the decision. “Look Eddie, the song is pretty and all but you guys are making a concept album about I don’t know what the fuck, but I know enough to be able to tell that this song has no place on this album. We’re done with this song. No arguments. That’s it. Just forget about. If you want to, you can put it on one of your solo albums one day. But the song is too simple and shallow. It’s a freaking sappy love song. And it’s going to ruin this album if you put it on here.” If I had learned anything from “being in a band” for so many years compared to being a solo artist, it was that everyone’s gotta feel the songs and the vibe of what you’re doing or else the whole project is going to be compromised. And the guys just weren’t feeling the song. And they were right about the song lyrically. It had no place on the Heroes album. So that was that. But regardless, the song is a child like any other song. A living breathing extension of that moment in time when I discovered it floating out there in nothingness and birthed it. So at the least we wanted to give it a home. No one even mixed it, the poor little bastard. This is why the vocals are so low in the mix. I seem to remember that someone had lost the original audio files for it. So it just is what it is. A photograph or a memo of a moment.

Lyrics

There is something ‘bout her face

There is something ‘bout her eyes

Something very nice

There is something ‘bout her smile

There is something ‘bout her touch

That I like very much

All of my love

You can take it from me now

Take it from me now

Take it won’t you take it

Take if from me now

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