All You Ever Wanted - Rag'n'Bone Man
3:06
Life By Misadventure, 2021
Written by Ben Jackson-Cook, Mike Elizondo, Natalie Hemby, and Rory Graham
In this song, the narrator wanders through the old haunts of his city, seeing despair and poverty, and none of the old landmarks he knows form his youth. "Moving forward, walking back / Everyone is falling but we don't see them / A day away from a stroke of bad luck / Money's slipping right through the cracks." The title is a sneering challenge, not a consolation: it asks, is this watered down, gentrified place all you ever wanted? Really? Rag'n'Bone Man's booming baritone gives the lyrics a righteous power.