Introduction
When Linda Ronstadt recorded “All My Life” with Aaron Neville, she didn’t just create another duet. She detonated a cultural time bomb. This wasn’t background music for lovers—it was a raw confession, sung by two voices so vulnerable and so powerful that listeners were left trembling.
Think about it: by the late 1980s, the music industry had already tried to box Ronstadt in. They called her the “Queen of Rock,” the “First Lady of Country-Rock,” a crossover artist, a hit machine. But when “All My Life” dropped, those labels suddenly felt laughably small. This song wasn’t about categories. It was about the human condition—about what it means to wait, to lose, and finally to find a love that feels like destiny.
The shock? It wasn’t Neville’s velvet-and-gravel voice. It wasn’t Ronstadt’s soaring, crystalline delivery. It was the chemistry—the way two people, from completely different musical worlds, collided in the studio and created something timeless. It was the sound of heartbreak healed, of time redeemed.
Radio stations couldn’t resist. Awards followed. Fans replayed it until cassette tapes wore thin. But beyond the trophies and the charts, there was something deeper: the realization that Linda Ronstadt had reached a point in her career where she wasn’t chasing trends. She was defining them.
“All My Life” wasn’t just a duet—it was a revelation. It reminded the world that music, at its most powerful, is not entertainment. It is therapy. It is confession. It is salvation.
And Linda Ronstadt? She didn’t just sing the song. She owned it. She embodied it. She turned it into a statement that still echoes: true love, no matter how late it arrives, is always worth the wait.
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Lyrics
All my life
Without a doubt, I give you all my life
Now and forever ′til the day I die
You and I will share
All the things this changing world can offer
So I sing, I’d be happy just to stay this way
Spend each day with you
chorus
There was a time
That I just thought that I would lose my mind
You came along, and then the sun did shine
We started on our way
I do recall
That every moment spent was wasted time
But then I chose to lay it on the line
hook
I put the past away, I put the past away
I put the past away
verse
All my life
I will carry you through all my life
Between each hour of the passing days
I will stay with you
chorus
There was a time
That I just thought that I would lose my mind
You came along, and then the sun did shine
We started on our way
I do recall
That every moment spent was wasted time
But then I chose to lay it on the line
outro
I want this all my life, I want this all my life
I want this all my life, I want this all my life
I want this all my life, I wanted this all my life
