Bread is , IMO, an underappreciated great group. David Gates is a fantastic singer and all of their songs are beautifully produced and sung, especially this one.
I woke up one morning recently with this song playing in my mind. It brought back so many memories of the love I once shared with my beloved husband who passed from this life 24 years, 3 months ago. I have never gotten past the grief of losing him, my soulmate. I love and miss him as much today as I did the day he passed to heaven. I have had many dreams of him in which he seemed to be still with me . I believe he comes to me to let me know he is aware of my love for him. We had a wonderful marriage full of happy times together. This song tells me he misses our being together just as much as I do. I know he is waiting for me and I know we will be together again.........
It's been 4 months 18 days since my husband passed away. I appreciate your words. It's 2:30am and had to come here to listen as this song was on my mind. I believe we'll be together again as well.
I lost my Brian just weeks ago. I can't imagine my life here without him. Everything reminds me of him. I have memories of everything. I know I knew him before I ever met him back in the spring of 2014. He is my soulmate. He made me feel like his equal and that I could do anything. He believed in me even when times I didn't believe in myself. I've never felt the love I felt for him. I believe also he's here with me. I turn the radio on and he gives me a song. This my song from him tonight. I love you Brian forever and always ❤️.
Lost my loving husband of almost 20 years to aggressive gallbladder cancer 7 weeks ago today. We loved this song and now it takes in an even deeper meaning. My heart is broken and I do truly feel lost without him. 💔
The emotional impact that Bread songs continue to have is amazing. I felt that way when they first came out, and still feel that way today. It wasn't cool for a guy to like them back in the day -- at least not publicly. My excuse for having all of their albums was that "my girlfriend likes them, what are you going to do?" Haha. It may be pop, but it's transcendent pop that NOBODY did better. Thank you Bread for making life just a bit sweeter for more than 40 years now.
Exactly. Imagine the crap David got for writing these very songs, considering that! lol. I’m sure he did. Him, Dan Hill, Barry manilow, and a couple other guys were “the guys” of the 1970s that wrote the very raw emotional music of the time, when it was much less fashionable for men to do. I respect them very much for this, as a deeply-feeling guy myself. ❤
I lost my wife 4 weeks ago this is one of her favorite songs she's now in heaven with her personal savior we had a great marriage of 31 years she was my soulmate I will miss you my love until we meet again in heaven this song is for you
Your wife and mine must've passed away at the same time; as I write this it has been 6 weeks, and after 42 years of marriage it has been very painful. My only solace is knowing where she is and that she's experiencing love and life that if it were anything like ours, must truly be Heaven. But it truly feels like my heart has been hollowed out and is empty; it's going to take a long time to come to grips with the reality that she's never coming back. I'm just hoping I live the rest of my life with some chance that I might reunite with her in the same place, if I'm worthy. It's all I have to hang onto at this point.
David Gates' music is some of the finest love songs ever written. If he were trying to release them in today's society, he'd be cancelled. After all, many of them were written from a guy's perspective and meant for a real girl.
Back in the day, many of the radio stations would not play so if a song was very long. So, most were not very long, or they recorded a long and short version.
@Annie Driggs this is why the song Daniel by Elton John is missing the 4th verse that explains what happened to Daniel. Elton just crossed it out when writing the music to go with the lyrics because it had to be under time limit for radio.
I lost my wife 9 months ago so that would have been around the same time. I thought it would get better but it keeps feeling worse. I love her and miss her more each day. I play this song often. It really expresses the raw emotion that I feel.
I lost Laurel July 26,2012 at 2:15 in the afternoon. Ovarian cancer took her last breath after a 4 yr. plus struggle. It took mine as well as I look back. I live day to day.I wish there were words of consolation but I don't think there are for me. We were together 50 yrs., 47 married.I have many memories now. Take care as best you can.
Dear Chuck, I know this is late. I saw what you wrote and I'm so sorry for your great loss. You are right there is no way anyone can console you when you've lost someone so dear to you. When she died you feel you died also. When you love someone so deeply, you die with them. I believe you will see each other again in Heaven. I deeply hope that my words come close to comforting your spirit. God bless you and comfort you always. Yvonne
It's such a beautiful song my friend.. this is my mum and dad's wedding song.. as I talk to you now my mum is in ICU with covid and I'm proper heartbroken... Reading your story I really appreciate your honesty.. its brought floods of tears..
You know, songs like this really touches me. It was during a time when my dad was still around during the 1970s. He passed away in 1995. I'm 55 now, already served my time in the air force, and still feeling blue. I wish I could take a leap back in time. You folks have a splendid day, okay.
Just got released after doing twelve years in prison;,So many things have changed.lost my favorite brother,dad and mom while I was incarcerated.most days I am lost,to cope I have become emotionless.words con not explain my pain.
@@DannyMcCallaI hope you can see them again one day. I can relate to having developed emotionless (though have been a bit better lately because I took a break from certain things) even though I luckily have not been in prison. You just have to keep going (as best you can). Also, you seem like a really nice person I can just feel it. Please take care of yourself as best you can. It isn’t fair what happened to you but this world is a really bad place. I just listened to Stay by Jackson Browne and band, and it made me smile! I recommend it.
I lost my husband 10 years ago to this day I miss his smile, his humor, his everyday love He would be so proud of His first Son and his family and Our Daughter and Son and their accomplishments in their lives. Sorely missed this song brings back a deeper meaning in the words. I Love you Dear Frankie and miss you intensely. Watch over us all and help me draw ever so closer to you and Our Lord and Savior thru the sacraments and continued Blessings with which he abundantly provides I Love You❤
Another terrific penned song sung by the ever talented David Gates. Oh Mr. Gates what you have given us so much lovely lyrics and music. This was the last hit he had with the Bread which he formed with James Griffin and Robb Royer. Royer left the group as a musician but stayed on to continue writing with James Griffin. Royer was replaced by the ever talented Larry Knechtel. Another talented session musician who played with the very best. For example, Simon and Garfunkel "Bridge Over Troubled Waters" piano part. Mike Botts, a gifted drummer, joined the group full-time and was also a sought after musician backing Linda Ronstadt. Those were the days when they wrote and sang great music.
Grew up listening to A.M. radio, especially easy soft rock and Bread was the group that always had that sound and melody that fit everyone liking, whether sad, in love or happy, this band fit the recipe. Love David Gates voice. Magical.❤️💕
Love this song. ❤Really true... Having true love and lost is really painful.. No words can comfort to diminish the heartaches 💔😔But, thinking my hubby is at peace in heaven I felt at peace too. Still your sweet memories is in my heart my dearest.💙💙💙
This song was played at my dad’s funeral 20th of January 2017, and my mum cried. They were spilt 12 years before he died. Love you dad. GO THE SYDNEY ROOSTERS!!!!
I love Bread's songs... i'm only 21, i have no idea how i got to know these songs but i just love the melody, lyrics and everything. So amazing! Thanks for uploading their songs esp. this one!
Hermoso! Bread no es de mis tiempos, yo estaba mas chica, pero recuerdo en las radios su música y bueno , ahora en estos tiempos me han gustado muchisimo y siempre pongo sus videos.☺
Tenía como 16 años y me fascina ahora pasaron los.años y me trae tantos recuerdos q me acuerdo y se hace un nudo en la garganta recuerdo inolvidables q quedarán grabados en mi corazón bellísima sin duda
I absolutely love this song it reminds me of the days my wife and myself were together we were married for 54 years in march she died of a brain emerage and she suffered from a water infection and she could not walk she would not harm a fly sweet dreams my darling brenda I want you back and the way things used to be , till we meet again
one song that has so much meaning to me , my wife and I divorced with much regret ,but almost forty years later we have met again and both single my heart sings fit to burst , my first true love is back in my life , she comes to visit me regularly at my home in Turkey now both retired , great joy for both when together here's hoping a second chance will bring happiness for us both .... bread was one of our favourite bands way back then ..
James 1:17 "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." Put Christ as the head of your marriage and it will flourish. Ecclesiastes 4:12 "And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken." Amen
If two souls are meant for each other..it finds its way home back where your heart belongs... I'm happy for you guys.. enjoy life together now.. God bless you both
I love this song. That voice of David's is so mellow and beautiful. The song brings back wonderful memories. But today...the new memories are painful. Someone I love SO much just doesn't feel this way. I cry so much. I hate asking myself why. I don't have answers. I don't know how to give up. This time...I find it impossible to let go...to stop loving. I just can't.
Jesus Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again to save us from eternal judgement and give us eternal life if we believe Him. Only God can save us and freely give us new life inside forever.
This one really tugs on the heart . I was about 15 when this song first hit the charts. I was broken hearted over my first love walking away. I later married him so this song is a great walk down memory lane. Ahhhh.
David Gates is a musical genius and also other 60's - 90's artists. His arrangements couldnt match compared to this day artists. This kind of music will never taken away in my playlist.
This song came out in December of 1976. It was kind of ironic that I was hearing this song a lot when I got back together with a girlfriend that I really loved and had lost two years earlier. It was very sweet getting back together with her and I thought that it would never happen. Also playing on the radio a lot at that time was "Somebody To Love" by Queen.I recalled that this was a comeback song for Bread, as they had not been heard since early 1973. A nice comeback it was! And then David Gates went solo and he turned out some great hits.
I lost TRACY ANN over 14yrs ago now and I still wake up in the middle of the night and reach for her. Its now 2:35 in the morning and I miss her so fucking badly, God the pain its there every day, every day , every day, everyday never stops. But this I know, MY LOVE FOR HER WILL BE THE VESSEL THAT WILL CARRY MY SOUL TO HER IN HEAVEN. AND YES HONEY I DO THINK WE FIT TOGETHER PERFECTLY. I MISS YOU TRACY ANN. I SAID FOREVER!!!!!
Bread is like their eponymous name...you open the pack and every slice is just as fresh and delicious as the first...and this loaf NEVER goes stale...Bread, you keep me loving life...
He was 37 and she was 35 years old. My Buddy had a love relationship you'd never seen before. Such love between the two, beyond belief. Just over a year after the beginning of their relationship she developed terminal cancer and was given less than a year to live. What devastation! That being said, their love grew even stronger. On the night she passed away she was in his arms and the background music was playing. As she spoke her last words, "I'll always love you," this song (Lost Without Your Love) started playing. And tears just flowed down our eyes. We have never forgotten this song, which of course reminds of her passing. BREAD...such good music!
Reminds me of me and best friend and his girlfriend and she was my friend too when we were 16. I started to like her and we lost our friendship over it. Then she got cancer and died at the young age of 33. Really tragic but those times we went to her parents house and hung out all three of us after school every day for a year were the best times.
I've lived this a couple of times, but today this song only brings me joy, because once I had what I thought to be true love - and now it's only me, and I'm happier than before. I've learned to love myself more than anything. And I love singing and playing this song. November 13,2018.
I'm thinking we've all maybe loved and lost on here. And this song sums up what it's like. Yet loving being loved IS the most wonderful thing in the world.
The absolute emptiness in my life and in my heart creates so much pain daily...really comes through while listening to this classic...sadness will continue til I take my last breath...nobody understands, or cares :-(
Not sure what to write. I'm getting to turn 60 and grew up with this music and still love my first love from the 9th grade. Crazy but true. I wish I knew then how to treat someone so special and maybe I would still have her today. Life.
This times was sweet innocence!Naive couples, couples holding hands, endless looks and hearts forever glued to the memory. Ah, I loved that beautiful woman as one who prostrates herself before the goddess of her existence and celebrates life! Shout for God: Gratitude, Beloved, for having existed and lived such a beautiful love!
Remember the good times, remember the smiles, remember how wonderful she made you feel. I always do so when I think of my mother ------- She told me as a child, if you cry when you think of me, do not think of me at all.
One of those special songs that finds me living in the past and holding on to someone who 's long gone .God It's so tiresome and painful to go there again and again .
***** I'm so very happy that you enjoyed this song as I did. I will get to hear it again when I read your poem. Thank-you Martin. I hope that your day is going well.
it`s been almost four years now but it seems to me it was only yesterday. my dear Mavic, you will always be in my heart, but i have to let go for you to be happy with our heavenly Father
This song will always remind me of when we were told my mom had weeks to a month to live. I miss her every second of everyday! 6 years this September. 💔
I’m just only 15 years old and I love 90s songs more than our generations songs, this song reminds me also of a story that I was reading back then, well it hits my heart also cause they broke up and the guy misses the girl so much, but in the end of the story they can’t be together.....
+Lorraine Ashby I found the best love, that precious gift. My husband died 13 months ago from cancer. But many have told me how lucky I was that I found that. Some never do. He was my gift and now I always try to be loving to others.
Lorraine Ashby You are so right Lorraine...I found mine in October 2015. She just passed away from cancer in November 2016. Pamela was an amazing woman. So glad I had that time with her...
I can relate to this song on so many levels. Years ago when my wife left me for another man, my heart was torn in two. I grieved for I don’t know how long. I still think about that time, and it makes my heart ache thinking about it, which is why I don’t think about it. Since then I e met someone else who is special to me now. We’ve been dating for 4 years now. Me and my ex wife still talk over the phone mostly only about our son. We’ve remained friends to this day. I wish her only the best.
