“All These Things” is the penultimate song of OneRepublic’s fourth studio album Oh My My. The track is notable for being one of the bands most unconventional and experimental songs. The snares are replaced by Tedder’s vocal percussion, and unique usage of auto-tune is employed to create a cold and atmospheric soundscape.

Lyrically, the track can be seen as a spiritual successor to “Light It Up” from the band’s third album Native, which explored a narrator trying to rescue someone from hedonism. “All These Things” exudes similar themes and motifs, but the narrator has grown disillusioned with the individual that they have desperately tried to help. Though “All These Things” cannot be defined, in its entirety, as an anti-drug anthem, such as “Light It Up”, both songs directly feature the offer to be the other’s “drug”. Both narrators desperately want to help remove someone from a culture rich with lies and expose them to the fruitful truths of life. In this interpretation, “All These Things” is a revelation that this unnamed narrator ultimately failed in this mission, because it is impossible to help those who do not desire help nor seek to better themselves.

Regardless of a connection, or lack thereof, to previous songs, “All These Things” still stands as a cold, bitter, and resentful look at a slowly cracking relationship that is trapped under the weight of rejected guidance.