All Around Me

"All Around Me"
Single by Flyleaf
from the album Flyleaf
ReleasedApril 23, 2007 (2007-04-23)
GenrePost-grunge
Length3:18
LabelOctone
Songwriters
  • Sameer Bhattacharya
  • James Culpepper
  • Jared Hartmann
  • Pat Seals
  • Lacey Sturm
ProducerHoward Benson
Flyleaf singles chronology
"Fully Alive"
(2006)		 "All Around Me"
(2007)		 "Breathe Today"
(2007)
Music video
"All Around Me" on YouTube

"All Around Me" is a song by American band Flyleaf from their self-titled debut album, Flyleaf (2005). It was released as the third single on April 23, 2007. It is the band's highest-charting and only single to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 and their most successful single to date.

Eventually, it became a mainstream and modern rock hit in the United States, crossing over to the pop charts, where it reached No. 40 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song took a large leap into the top 40 channels, receiving more than 20 new stations in a single day. The song was certified 4× Platinum in the U.S. on September 9, 2025, selling over 4,000,000 copies.

Background

Front woman Lacey Mosley has stated on the radio station LA Lloyd's Rock 30 that the song is about her spiritual relationship with God. She has stated "It's a song about meeting God. I remember looking at a bunch of people's Myspace when I first saw Myspace and the 'Who I'd Like to Meet' the number one thing people picked was God. I think about that. I don't know how many times I've experienced something where I felt like God showed up and saved me or loved me for no reason sometimes. That's why I sing this song, I sing it to God. It's really intimate as well, you can think about it as a relationship between two people in love, too. I never think about it that way, but what's so cool about that is I think there's parallels everywhere – in everything in life. I think that that parallel is something that God wants to communicate to us, that he gives us relationships like that, an intimacy like that".

Music video

The music video for the song was directed by Paul Fedor. In it, the band is dressed in white except lead singer Lacey Mosley, who is wearing a grey dress. The walls have red, yellow, blue, green, and black paint running down them and later in the video the paint is on the band.

The video provides a different version of the song, which includes an extra refrain in the second chorus, totaling a duration of 3 minutes and 34 seconds as opposed to the album version at 3 minutes and 18 seconds.[citation needed]

The video debuted on Fuse TV's Oven Fresh on June 25, 2007, and on Yahoo Music on June 28, 2007.[citation needed]

Track listing

Digital download EP
No.TitleLength
1."All Around Me"3:18
2."All Around Me" (acoustic version)3:21
3."Do You Hear What I Hear"2:57

Charts

Certifications

Certifications for "All Around Me"
Region CertificationCertified units/sales
United States (RIAA) 4× Platinum 4,000,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Awards

2009 BMI Pop Award Winning Song

References

  1. ↑ "FMQB Airplay Archive: Modern Rock". Friday Morning Quarterback Album Report, Incorporated. Archived from the original on March 22, 2013. Retrieved November 29, 2025.
  2. ↑ Jones, Kim. "Flyleaf - 'Flyleaf'". About.com. Archived from the original on May 15, 2013. Retrieved April 10, 2021.
  3. ↑ https://www.billboard.com/artist/flyleaf/chart-history/
  4. ↑ "American certifications – Flyleaf – All Around Me". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved March 24, 2016.
  5. ↑ https://www.songfacts.com/facts/flyleaf/all-around-me
  6. ↑ "All Around Me – EP". Apple Music. Retrieved June 2, 2021.
  7. ↑ "Flyleaf Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved August 7, 2017.
  8. ↑ "Flyleaf Chart History (Adult Pop Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved August 7, 2017.
  9. ↑ "Flyleaf Chart History (Alternative Airplay)". Billboard. Retrieved August 7, 2017.
  10. ↑ "Flyleaf Chart History (Mainstream Rock Airplay)". Billboard. Retrieved August 7, 2017.
  11. ↑ "Flyleaf Chart History (Pop Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved August 7, 2017.
  12. ↑ "Pop Rock" (in Spanish). Record Report. February 2, 2008. Archived from the original on February 13, 2008.
  13. ↑ "Alternative Songs – Year-End 2007". Billboard. Archived from the original on March 18, 2022. Retrieved April 13, 2026.
  14. ↑ "American single certifications – Flyleaf – All Around Me". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved September 9, 2025.
  15. ↑ "2009 BMI Pop Awards Award Winning Songs | Press". BMI.com. May 19, 2009. Retrieved August 13, 2011.