Make It With You

Album: On The Waters (1970)
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  • Hey, have you ever tried
    Really reaching out for the other side?
    I may be climbing on rainbows
    But, baby, here goes

    Dreams, they're for those who sleep
    Life is for us to keep
    And if you're wondering what this song is leading to

    I wanna make it with you
    I really think that we could make it, girl

    No, you don't know me well
    And every little thing, only time will tell
    If you believe the things that I do
    And we'll see it through

    Life can be short or long
    Love can be right or wrong
    And if I chose the one I'd like to help me through

    I'd like to make it with you
    I really think that we could make it, girl

    Baby, you know that dreams they're for those who sleep
    Life, it's for us to keep
    And if I chose the one I'd like to help me through

    I'd like to make it with you
    I really think that we could make it, girl Writer/s: David Gates
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Comments: 12

  • AnonI sometimes heard this on K-Earth 101 back when I was younger as well as Baby I'm-a Want You and Guitar Man. Mr. Gates' voice was so dulcet and sweet that the song could have been made for his adoring wife. The non-ironic and non-heartbreaking use of "baby", "babe" and "girl" send a sweet message to the intended woman that the song is for. If his wife had heard "Make It With You", she would have had tears of joy spilling down her cheeks and would have been kissing her husband all over his face.
  • Susan from AustraliaWhat does he whisper at 1:42 and 1:51 in the song- any one else notice?
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn this day in 1971 {July 11th} Ralfi Pagan's covered version of "Make It With You" peaked at #32 {for 2 weeks} on Billboard's Hot R&B Singles chart and it spent eleven weeks on the chart...
    "Make It With You" reached #104 on Billboard's Bubbling Under The Top 100 chart...
    He had one Top 100 record, a duet with Sylvia Robinson, "Soul Je T'Aime", it stayed on the chart for two weeks in September of 1973 at position #99 for both those weeks...
    Sadly, Mr. Pagan passed away in 1978 in Colombia, South America, a victim of an unsolved murder...
    May he R.I.P.
  • Seventhmist from 7th HeavenMaking it, drugs, and rock-n-roll...
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn this day in 1977 {September 10th} the Whispers performed their covered version of "Make It With You" on the nationally syndicated television program, 'Soul Train'...
    At the time the song was at position #17 on Billboard's Hot R&B Singles chart, three weeks earlier it had peaked at #10 {for 1 week} and it spent seventeen weeks on the chart...
    It reached #94 on Billboard's Top 100 chart...
    Between 1969 and 1997 the Los Angeles group had forty records on the Hot R&B Singles chart, fifteen made the Top 10 with two* reaching #1, "And The Beats Goes On" for 5 weeks in 1980 and "Rock Steady" for 1 week in 1987...
    Original member Nicholas Caldwell passed away at the age of 71 on January 5th, 2016...
    May he and Don Cornelius {1936 - 2012} R.I.P.
    * They just missed having a third #1 record when their "It's A Love Thing" peaked at #2 for 3 weeks in 1981, the first week it was at #2, the #1 record for that week was "Don't Stop The Music" by Yarbrough and Peoples, for it's 2nd and 3rd week at #2, the #1 record for both those weeks was "Being With You" by Smokey Robinson...
  • Eric from Point Place, Wisconsin (green Bay Suburb)This song was played when Eric and Donna at the end of the "Van Stock" episode of "That '70's Show"
  • Joel from Kenosha, WiHate to admit this, I've been saying that a lot for some reason, but I like this song. I never really listened to A.M. radio that much but now I tend to listen to it a lot especially when I'm alone in the car or spending some quality romantic time with my girlfriend. Guess I'm kinda stuck in the seventies.
  • Guy from Woodinville, WaJust classic sweet soft rock as only Bread could deliver. I would like to hear the Earth Wind & Fire cover. I'm going to see them in concert tnight--it would be cool if they performed it, but they never have yet.
  • Les from Joplin, MoThe odd lyrics, "Hey have you ever tried really reaching out for the other side..." kinda seems to imply the gay thing.
  • Joe from Laredo, TxThis was the first Bread song I had ever heard. I just fell so in love with this song. Especially the guitar intro followed by the bass. The album cover to "On the Waters" was great photography. The flip side to that 45 was "Why do you keep me waiting". I thought that was a pretty good song too. This album is really a signature album of the (early) seventies with maybe a pinch of late 60's. I have heard the song "I AM that I AM" from the same album on christian radio. That surprised me.
  • Dave from Cardiff, WalesGreat song - one for speeding down the highway with all the windows down at full blast on a midsummer's day!
  • Kerry G. from Detroit Rock City, MiThis and "Baby I'm A Want You" are THEE best love songs ever made.
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