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"That is all" Writer-George Harrison [Story of Song at end]
That is all I want to say
Our love could save the day
That is all I'm waiting for
To try to love you more

And that is all I want to do
To get right next to you
That is all I'm living for
Your love and nothing more
And that is all

Times I find it hard to say
With useless words getting in my way
Silence often says much more
Than trying to say what's been said before

That is all I want from you
A smile when I feel blue
That is all I'm waiting for
Your love and nothing more
And that is all

Silence often says much more
Than trying to say what's been said before

But that is all I want to do
To give my love to you
That is all I'm living for
Please let me love you more
And that is all

Story of Song :
Apple Records issued George Harrison album "Living in the Material World" at the end of May 1973, or late June in Britain. "That Is All" was sequenced to follow "The Day the World Gets 'Round."
Harrison's musical activities included helping American musician Gary Wright establish himself as a solo artist. Wright's album "Footprint" was released in November that year (1973) and included "Love to Survive" a song that author Simon Leng cites as having been an influence on Harrison's composition "That Is All" "Love to Survive" was orchestrated by Harrison's "All Things Must Pass" arranger, John Barham, who says that "musically there was a strong rapport" between himself, Harrison and Wright at this time......
....Harry Nilsson, another associate of Harrison's,recorded "That Is All" for his 1976 album ..."That's the Way It Is" The song appears twice there, as the opening track and as a reprise to close the album. Author and critic Alyn Shipton comments that Nilsson's performance on "That Is All" marked a rare return to the upper-register singing style of his early career. Shipton describes Nilsson's break into falsetto as being "as good as anything he ever recorded".