Released: January 19, 1987
Songwriter: David Hidalgo Louie Pérez
Producer: Los Lobos T Bone Burnett
Climbing high to the mountain top
Reaching up to the sky above
Asking to myself
Is this all there is?
Sailing into the ocean blue
Trying to find at least one clue
On a paper scrawled
Is this all there is?
And they all came to talk about it
They came to cry and laugh and fight about it
All searching for the promised land
Tired souls with empty hands
Asking to themselves
Is this all there is?
Fifteen years on a sewing machine
Where twisted hands don't mean a thing
Wondering to herself
Is this all there is?
Baby crying in an old tin cup
Wanting more but there's never enough
While her mother sighs
Is this all there is?
And they all came to talk about it
They came to cry and laugh and fight about it
All searching for the promised land
Tired souls with empty hands
Asking to themselves
Is this all there is?
Reaching up to the sky above
Asking to myself
Is this all there is?
Sailing into the ocean blue
Trying to find at least one clue
On a paper scrawled
Is this all there is?
And they all came to talk about it
They came to cry and laugh and fight about it
All searching for the promised land
Tired souls with empty hands
Asking to themselves
Is this all there is?
Fifteen years on a sewing machine
Where twisted hands don't mean a thing
Wondering to herself
Is this all there is?
Baby crying in an old tin cup
Wanting more but there's never enough
While her mother sighs
Is this all there is?
And they all came to talk about it
They came to cry and laugh and fight about it
All searching for the promised land
Tired souls with empty hands
Asking to themselves
Is this all there is?
more tracks from the album
El Cancionero Mas Y Mas
- Lil’ King of Everything
- Wicked Rain
- Midnight Shift
- Why Do You Do
- Bertha
- Come On, Let’s Go
- Tomorrow Never Knows (live 1993)
- Is This All There Is?
- Someday
- Dream in Blue
- Oh Yeah
- Sabor a Mi
- That Train Don’t Stop Here
- River of Fools
- The Neighborhood
- Angels With Dirty Faces
- How Much Can I Do?
- I Got Loaded
- Set Me Free (Rosa Lee)
- When the Circus Comes
- Goodnight My Love
- Route 90
- She’s About a Mover (live 1996)
- Mas y Mas
- This Bird’s Gonna Fly
- Angel Dance
- Cumbia Raza (English version)
- Beautiful Maria of My Soul
- Lonely Avenue
- This Time
- Rip It Up
- Down Where the Drunkards Roll
- Can’t Stop the Rain
- Anselma
- Corrido #1
- Kiko and the Lavender Moon
- La Bamba
- Be Still
- Saint Behind the Glass
- Quatro Vicios [Ry Cooder with David Hidalgo and Cesar Rosas]
- Let’s Say Goodnight
- I Walk Alone
- Peace (demo)
- Estoy Sentado Aqui
- Will the Wolf Survive?
- Lonesome Tears in My Eyes
- Maricela
- Tears of God
- Viking
- I Can’t Understand
- Don’t Worry Baby
- Down on the Riverbed
- Revolution
- Alone in a Crowd
- I Wanna Be Like You (The Monkey Song)
- Evangeline
- Guantanamera
- Little John of God
- What’s Going On?
- Shakin’ Shakin’ Shakes
- Till the Hands Fall Off the Clock
- My Baby’s Gone
- Try Me
- La Pistola y el Corazón
- Rio de Tenampa (demo)
- One Time, One Night
- A Matter of Time
From the albums
- By the Light of the Moon (1987)
- El Cancionero Mas Y Mas (2000)
- The Ride (2004)
Los Lobos popular songs
- Canción Del Mariachi
- La Bamba
- We Belong Together
- Beautiful Maria of My Soul
- Rango Theme Song
- Kitate
- Luz de Mi Vida
- Huelga en general (feat. Carmen Moreno & Steve Salas)
- I Can’t Understand
- De colores (feat. The Children of Escuela Santa Isabel)
- Que Nadie Sepa Mi Sufrir
- Run Away With You
- Don’t Worry Baby
- No Puedo Más
- Chuco’s Cumbia
- Down on the Riverbed
- One Time, One Night
- Wooly Bully
- Wreck of the Carlos Rey
- Rio de Tenampa
- Jupiter or the Moon
- Rio de Tenampa (demo)
- The Ugly Bug Ball
- The Breakdown