"All I Want" is a song by American alternative rock band Toad the Wet Sprocket, released by Columbia Records in 1992 as the second single from their 1991 album, Fear. "All I Want" yielded the band's furthest commercial success, became one of their most well-known songs, and peaked within the top 20 of both the US Billboard Hot 100 and the Canadian RPM Top Singles charts. For its radio release, a version was parenthetically labeled a remix and featured pronounced vocal mastering, heard mainly during the song's hook. The album version is the unmastered mix.

Composition

On the song's content, singer Glen Phillips said, "It's very much about how fleeting any kind of epiphany is. It's all about the moment passing very, very quickly and how there's a desire to hold onto it. That would be a constant, but it comes and it goes, and it goes very quickly."

Track listings

US CD and cassette single, UK 7-inch single Australian CD single European CD single

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Cover versions

Post-hardcore band Emery recorded a cover of the song, which was included on the 2006 compilation Punk Goes 90's.

In popular culture

The song was featured in the TV series Doogie Howser, M.D., Dawson's Creek, Reunion and Homeland. In 2005, the song was added onto the Nickelodeon soundtrack, Zoey 101: Music Mix as the 10th track, along with other songs that were featured in Nickelodeon's Zoey 101.