“All We Ever Look For” is the fourth track on Kate Bush’s 1980 album Never for Ever.

[‘All We Ever Look For’] is not about me. It’s about family relationships generally. Our parents got beaten physically. We get beaten psychologically. The last line – “All we ever look for – but we never did score”.‘ Well, that’s the way it is – you do get faced sometimes with futile situations. But the answer’s not to kill yourself. You have to accept it, you have to cope with it.

— (Derek Jewell, ‘How To Write Songs And Influence People’. Sunday Times (UK), 5 October 1980)