Gates, David - If Lyrics

My foreign step-dad passed away yesterday morning 😭

Thank you for everything Daddy Don! We surely gonna miss you and Always we love you very much 💔😢

And my heart melts

December 2019!

It was an evil person involve her in a crime that was being committed and I can't go there I just can't go there

Ladies and gentlemen, you're listening to a musical masterpiece

December 9 2019 , when i hear this song i always see in my head the movie sex is ZERO TF

Nakakainis na mag youtube dahil sa mga add

@ rommel1020... I think i know you... I love you very much my love 😘😘😘

I love you very much my LOVE 😘😘😘

😍💯 FAVE!!!!

melancholic and haunting 😢

Absolutely beautiful lyrics, but then that's what you come to expect from David Gates

" IF " 🌷💞

linda!!! so ouvir e viajar...

40 yrs ago I married my best friend and we still going strong this was played at our wedding, My God she was and is so beautiful

Old but gold

“…a kingdom right on the shore, surrounded by gray mountains and bright green meadows. ‘Tis a place filled with fine castles born from the ocean, itself. The very walls are made of limestone and pearls, thick and heavy, a glistening, natural fortress soaked in golden sunlight. No man could calculate its worth, because it exceeds all of nature’s wealth. It is a great miracle, a grand dream not of our world. It is a beacon, a strong, gleaming lighthouse guiding great ships home. I dare not describe it more, for my words do not do it justice…”
― Ella Rose Carlos, A Long Lost Fantasy

Absolutely have loved this beautiful song since it first was released.....wish I had written the music and the poetry, or maybe I have

i'm millenial and i love this type of music!❤️old songs never die!

A classic the best songs have already been written so true in this case

❤️🍁

10/24/19
If👇

This one is so sweet and mellow really. One of the best love songs I have ever heard and I have heard so many of them. Women such as my wife can be indeed wonderful they pour themselves on us when we are down, and they make us feel better.

Ellos hicieron muchas canciones buenas pero para m+i esta es la mejor. Dice tantas cosas tan lindas como una poesía. Una canción excelente para los enamorados.

19-10-2019 12:57 ? Anyone ?

napakaganda pa rin ng music na to.. who still listening this song oct 2019

ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL!!!!!❤️

So beautiful!

My fav Bread song

The best of Bread songs... 💕💕💕

My ex boyfriend used to sing this to me. I remember how he sing it with his guitar while we are waiting for the sun to set. It's been a year now but I still miss him. I miss him every single day, Bae please come back. 😞

A very nice and meaningful song which proves how great this group called Bread was. It has been one of my favorites for a long time as it is tender and dreamy. The voice of the singer is excellent and he sings with feeling and the instruments backing him are played with great skill too. The organ is very nice to hear.

i "m sure this is the greatest song ever written. both me and my cat jasmine, who died in my arms after i played this song.

This music is so beautiful 😍 2019? Anyone?

Yaaassss.. I don’t really karaoke but at my house me and 2 other people did it for a couple hours... its actually soooo good. Your voice has to do something special to get it to work. You know.. in karaoke mode.. without the singers voice carrying you. I don’t even know if this makes any sense, you just gotta try it.

@Gian Carlo 還聽著，女兒剛出生時我在DV裏的音樂啊！感動…

Yep! Still Listening....

Napunta lng ako dito dahil sa SUNNY na movie. Nakakaiyak namaaaan 😭

This beautiful song make the world looks peace.. love from indonesia

2019💖

I really love this song ❤️

"If a nonbinary person could be in two places" is better. I am going to report this video to YOUTUBE,
As it's not all inclusive.

2019???

llegue acá por "aquellos años maravillosos"

this song was i got from my ex boyfriend which is my first love. i've stalked him and found this one. I hate this feeling that all the hurts of yesterday was really knock to my heart once again. He posted it at facebook, this song was really touches his heart.Meaning another girl tried to own his whole heart that i couldnt ever did. My Love, Ric Eleazar you know how much i really love you. The freedom that i given to you is just a true meaning of love.This kind of love inside my heart, can touch as one time and would be a last for a whole time. So if you find yourself to remember me, just comeback to me and i'll be forever here waiting for you my love. I love you and I always will. - MARY JANE CARDILLO

good music

Yesterdays favorite song,love it.

Im 15 yrs old and i love songs like this
Songs with deep meanings

2019? Still the best music for me

To my beloved shyra, I missed you a lot I've never had the chance to tell you how much i loved you. I cherish you, ,I adore you and I'm so grateful that i met you. I prayed for your happiness and your safety. Hopefully someday, you'll gonna read this and make you realized that I never failed to love you, to take care of you and to be grateful with you always. I love you.

2019 💓

This is song is way older than me idunno why I love listening to this.

Because you have good taste in music!

I need this kind of music today.

i am in a long distance relationship. and the word "if a man can be two places at one time i'd be with you." really hits me. i love my relationship. i hope God bless us two, and also all of you here reading the comments. ❤

My mama loves this song so much. Please stay healthy as always. Iloveyoualways maaa.

all of my friends told me I was too young for this kind of songs and they also told me to listen to the trend they also hate listening to this kind of songs, now they are all depressed, is there any significance?

😘😘😘😘

This song makes me sad.

Not sure why I attached this song to my mother's death, but when she died, this song kept playing over and over in my head as my eyes teared up, as they still do 16 yrs later.

Please why is there 555 dislikes? this is such a beautiful song

2019 and still listening to this song that has so many meanings 😞☹️

Still listening at 2019

August 19 2019 loving it😊

I miss you so bad my man. My guardian angel. When i here this song my heart feel so so loney and broken. How i wish you are here beside me. 😢💔 😢💔

Well I hope he shall return to You so You can be happy again. Regards and have a nice day.

Makes me suicidal

Beautiful

Does anybody else besides me listen to this music in 2019?

I do and im 10

Liu Meng Wai Ashlee Happy Birthday 🤗

Dedication to the one I love.

Still Listening 2019 ♥️🎶

" IF " 🌷🧚🏽‍♂️

This song makes you feel warm inside , so beautiful 😍

i was 10 years old for the first time i heard this song me and my father still listening now and then thumbs up for Mr David Gates

While I was working at Disneyland, us guys were talking about great bands. I mentioned Bread. Some dude said, " yeah, if your on a date or something".
I felt so wierd for loving this music. Man it's hard being a man, and crying for and about Love; and Loving.

POUR YOUR LOVE ON ME AND I WILL GIVE YOU LOVE ALL DAY AND NIGHT.

For my Shiny Pearl 🌺💙✨🧜🌹My love 💜💜💜💜

Still listening in 2019 !
Anyone else?🤗
Breads most beautiful music is as captivating as a ❤️ heart that's deeply in forever love that touches deep down within the soul♥️ ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕
🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎵🎵🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎵🎵

What a beautiful song it touches my heart and makes me cry how i wish...I will listen to this song over and over again ..it reminds me of you ...I really miss you luv u ...

As usually my love left me

Always, forever, and one day my love.

One of Jimmy's all-time favorite "oldies" was this classic, just passing forty-eight years ago at this time. This was a beautiful song, and one of the signature hits from the great 1970s soft rock band "Bread," formed in Los Angeles in 1968. This goodie was a number one (#1) song for three consecutive weeks on the United States of America BILLBOARD entertainment magazine EASY LISTENING chart. Over on the HOT 100 chart, it peaked in the number four (#4) position.


This easy listening soft rock classic was originally on those two charts and on the radio airwaves circa March, April, May and June of 1971.. :-)











BREAD

IF

(D. Gates)

Produced & Arranged by

David Gates



ELEKTRA



EKM-45720-A



B M I

Screen Gems-

Columbia Music,

Inc.

Time: 2:33



Elektra Records, 15 Columbus Circle, New York City 10023











BREAD is

Mike Botts, David Gates, James Griffin and Robb Royer



Produced by David Gates, together with James Griffin and Robb Royer

Arrangements by David Gates; Engineering Armin Steiner

Recorded at Sound Recorders, Hollywood, California



[ Recorded in 1970. ]



Cover Concept, Photography, Design & Art Direction Robert L. Heimall



Lyrics enclosed



ELEKTRA



c. copyright 1971 by ELEKTRA RECORDS, 15 Columbus Circle, New York City 10023











To get the unique "echo" instrumental sound on the song "If," this is

what it reads in the CD collection BREAD RETROSPECTIVE from 1996..



When "If" was recorded, the track was

enhanced by a mysteriously quavering sound

that gave the song a distinctive sheen. "That

was created by two Moog synthesizers," Gates

reports. "Paul Beaver came in and set them up

---I played a plain old Fender Telecaster guitar

through a voltage-controlled amplifier, and he

put that into these two oscillators that triggered

each other in random fashion. When we were

all done he said, "I hope you liked that and got

it on tape, 'cause I could never do that the

same way again."











"If"



If a picture paints a thousand words

Then why can't I paint you?

The words will never show

the you I've come to know.

If a face could launch a thousand ships

Then where am I to go?

There's no one home but you

You're all that's left me too.



And when my love for life is running dry

You come and pour yourself on me...



If a man could be two places at one time

I'd be with you

Tomorrow and today

beside you all the way

If the world should stop revolving

spinning slowly down to die

I'd spend the end with you

And when the world was through



Then one by one the stars would all go out

Then you and I would simply fly away.



Words and music by David Gates

c. 1971 by Screen Gems Columbia Music, Inc. New York

ever time I hear this song I cry😭

I never paid attention to the lyrics before until now...very moving.

The lyrics at the end of the song are beautiful and sad.

This song had made me 😢!!!!

June 5, 2019 🎧🎶🎶😭😭😭

These are the most beautiful words you can give to the person you love most in the world.

Excellent..Oui.

My mum passed away April 15th 2019 🙏 in memorium

I dedicated to my mother after she passed 3/28/2003. And I still get sad when I hear this song, even all these years later

I love BREAD LOVE SONGS.....

tremendo tema

i can listen to this all dayyyyyy :))))

i remember my dad

this tears me up

Irene this song is for you ! You broke my heart ❤️ till today I don’t know why

♥️💕♥️ My Love

I like the tune and the lyrics of this music. 😘 I remember someone ❤

My mom told my sister and I this was the song that played on the radio constantly when her and my dad were on their honeymoon back in 1971. She just passed away this Sunday. I am going to miss her so much.

Every time, every time I hear this I cry. I love you babe...❤️

This was one of my mom and dad's songs from back in the day. They were married 56 years. My dad just died on February 27th from Leukemia. This song just randomly played on my playlist. I love you dad and miss you so much. You were an awesome husband to mom, father and grandfather to all of us kids. You'll always be my super hero.