The Scroll Behind All I Want Is Yahuah: When Everything Else Falls Away

All I Want Is Yahuah is a subtraction song. One by one it removes the things a person is told to chase, possessions, status, approval, the next satisfaction, until the desire underneath them is exposed and named. What remains is not emptiness. It is the one thing worth wanting.

The scroll it stands on is Tahilliym (Psalms) 73:25-26. Its plain meaning arrives after a long struggle in that Tahilliym over why the arrogant seem to prosper, and it resolves in a confession: there is nothing in the heavens or on the earth that the singer desires beside Yahuah, and though body and heart give out, Yahuah is the strength of his heart and his portion forever. Around it stand three thirsts. Tahilliym 27:4 asks for one thing, to dwell in the house of Yahuah and behold His beauty. Tahilliym 42:1-2 pants like a deer for streams of water, thirsting for the living Al. Tahilliym 63:1 seeks Him early in a dry and weary land where there is no water, and Tahilliym 84:1-2 faints with longing for His courts.

The heart of the song is that Yahuah is a portion, not an accessory. A portion is what you live on, your inheritance and your daily bread, and the singer of Tahilliym 73 has concluded that Yahuah Himself, not His gifts, is that portion. The failing of flesh and heart is not hidden; the song admits that the body wears out and the emotions collapse. But the confession holds anyway, because the desire has been anchored to something that does not fail. This is Amunah (firmness, trust) shaped as longing, a want that survives after the lesser wants have proven hollow. To sing all I want is Yahuah is to let the other desires fall and discover that the one left standing was the real one all along.

It matters that Tahilliym 73 reaches this confession only after a hard fight. Earlier in that Tahilliym the singer nearly slips, envying the comfort of the arrogant and questioning whether keeping a clean heart was worth it, until he enters the set-apart place and sees the end of things clearly. Only then does he say there is nothing beside Yahuah he desires. The song inherits that honesty. It does not pretend the competing wants were never attractive; it walks through them and comes out the other side. The thirst language of Tahilliym 42 and 63, panting and seeking early in a dry land, keeps the longing physical and real, so the devotion never floats off into sentiment. This is desire that has been tested and has chosen its one thing on purpose.

To listen and go deeper, find the All I Want Is Yahuah page and its streaming links, and read the scroll of Tahilliym in the Tanakh library, letting Tahilliym 42 and 63 sit beside 73. Related songs walk the same road of undivided desire: Only Yahuah, He Alone Is Yahuah, I Trust In Yahuah, and Planted Deep In Yahuah.

The heart is always wanting something. This song does not kill desire; it aims it. When everything else falls away, what is left is the portion that lasts forever.

Answer

Q: What is All I Want Is Yahuah about?

A: All I Want Is Yahuah is about desire narrowed to one thing. It follows Tahilliym 73:25-26, where the singer looks through heaven and earth and finds nothing he wants beside Yahuah, confessing that his flesh and heart fail but Yahuah is his portion forever. The song strips away the lesser wants until only nearness to Yahuah is left.