This is the first song I remember liking when I was a young kid. It puts me in this wistful mood where I'd like to go back in time and avoid all the mistakes this time.
Same! Except my grandchildren are still a few years away from appreciating music. I sang along in the 70s without realizing that these songs are GOLD. 💔 💔 💔
1974 summer, my first true love girl was moving away for 6 months...she came back and broke up with me. It devastated me for years, and 45 years later still makes me sad. They say you never forget your first true love...I’m here to tell you I’m proof of that. I met her this spring of 2020, and tho she looked great, I married the second love of my life and was better for it. This song brings me back to 1974 like it was yesterday in her yard hanging on a hammock together. I’m listening right now and I’m 18 again!
Jude Barnes ...It was a rather horrid life path. She married a man of color who she had a boy with, he beat her, got divorced, wanted another kid and got knocked up by another minority (that boy is now a pot farmer). She remains unmarried. She got her college degree in some nondescript degree but not in Child Psych like she wanted when we dated; she became involved in some sort of radio business and is an office manager (yawn).
David Gates was truly underrated! Unbelievable arrangements, spectacular lyrics, solid vocals....gosh I miss his stuff! I read that he's living on a ranch in Oregon, still married, led a happy meaningful life...and I'm happy for him. Wonder if he still plays.
"Because there will always be An empty room waiting for you An open heart waiting for you" Really one of the most simple and direct words that could be written about love.
I can say with certainty that we ALL have at least one in our past that this would resonate with 🙏🙏❤❤💔💔🌹🌹 Classic Rock lover here, and these guys are yet another who have a legitimate claim for consideration for the RRHOF. David Gates, yet another great voice. Too many hits to not be in that hall!
For context, I had an outstanding stereo system. The first time two roommates and I listened to this, as the crescendo finale faded, followed by the last "Cuz it don't matter to me" and the song ended, we sat silent, mesmerized, a moment extraordinary enough to still be remembered roughly 45 years later. Thank you David Gates, as well as James Griffin, Mike Botts and Larry Knechtel.
I met the one. For 13 years we were together, last few years it just wasn't working out no matter what we tried we just couldnt move forward together anymore. It's painful, my heart is broken and I miss being us and all that we did and had hoped to do. I hear that life clock ticking all the time and wonder will we ever get back or perhaps God has another plan and will meet someone else just as special. Great songs really do talk to the soul and stir it up. Thank you David Gates and Bread.
It takes allot of guts to give up someone you love with every fiber of your being to someone else, but sometimes watching that special person from afar so happy, in love is as priceless as time itself. 🌹
Bread made so many beautiful songs, but this may be the most beautiful, at least among the hits. It's just as affecting today as it was all those years ago. Jeez, I never could have imagined that at the time. It's comforting to know that some part of our youthful emotion stays with us through the decades. Thank you for posting this.
Wow wow wow, and out of the blue, an ex-boyfriend, from the early seventies, sends a text today.....this song, he felt, reflected how he was feeling at the time, little did I know, he still pined after me, now, almost fifty years later, I now know....
I still love my first love from high school, who ran off with a 40 year old, when we were 18. Lila gave that old creeper more of the benefit of the doubt than she gave me. Still hurts, more than 30 years later. I thought she was made of stronger stuff. Lila's choice took away mine. I guess I really had no chance at all. I would go to the abyss for her, though. I would sacrifice my own existence for hers. Love the old girl, after all that is said and done, at the end of the day.
This song popped up in my head the last couple of days out of the blue!!! I’ve always loved this song and I looked up the lyrics and it resonates so much with what I am going through… True love has touched me in this lifetime and I am truly blessed to experience it… What is meant for me, will come back around..❤
This song brings back good memories of my Kate mom, who would play the Bread 8 track tape when I was a child. I also appreciate the lyrics of this song; I can relate to it as well.
Time travel! This song played on the AM radio all through high school and I was oblivious to how relevant it would be someday when I would hear it from my smart phone as I reminisced about The One Who Got Away. Too many feels 💔
My late Mom used to play this song on her Panasonic 8 track stereo. It was in my head all day at work so I played it here & it brought back so many fond memories of her. The production quality of this recording is excellent & instrumentally the band were pretty damn good.
It don't matter to me. Yes it does. This was the first put together super group. Later you will have had super tramp and others. But David Gates like I said before has a beautiful voice. I have sent many females songs by them and they said they cried. Says it all.
Bread's first album is actually my favorite of the bunch. It only had one hit (this song) but the album itself turned out to be real pleasant, sounding like a little bit of Pet Sounds Beach Boys mixed with 1968 Beatles. Btw listening in 2024!! Who else? 🙋♂️🙋♂️
Some of these lyrics came running across my mind and no doubt I had to do a search.This song does reach out to my heart.🥰💯Love always makes a place in your life.😇Bringing it back.
Awesome song...the true meaning of love. If you love something/someone, let it/them go, if it/they return it's/they're yours forever. The only difference is that it matters a lot! Thanks so much for the beautiful walk down memory lane!
The orchestration is killer. Missed that on AM radio when I was in 5th or 6th grade. My late mother enjoyed this. Wiping tears away corner of Ninth and42nd west of Times Square. I love "the best" of several genres of music in part because MA paid for piano lessons. This song is on my PLAY THIS LIST OF SONGS AT MY WAKE document.
Bread.......Oh Bread......let me tell you ......I never knew whether to Cry or feel happy with every song this Group wrote. Literally....I got to the point that I just can't listen to Bread. I am an extremely emotional person with severe PTSD. Which I since 10 yrs old just cant get over. With every form of Rx,therapists, doctors, nothing works.but im happy with my family 👪 👪 👨👧👧 👩👧👧 👨👩👧👦 👨👩👧👧 👨👩👦👦 👪. Bread is extremely talented ,beautiful music unlike anything ever created.The lyrics,the chords,their voices.perfect. It just goes to my Sad part of my Brain 🧠 and its not a good feeling. Wish I could understand why.
Yes this music should come with a warning for the extremely sensitive emotional person...I only listened to this today because I heard the last part on the radio and I hadn't heard it in while...I won't go into the details of why my 1st boyfriend sent a cassette tape with this song on it, years ago, but Bread's music is tear jerking for me as well. I can't listen to it without sadness coming up. Well try to find music that has a more uplifting effect, like Pharrell Williams song Happy maybe :)...Take care.
This i feel without a doubt has to be one of the greatest songs to ever be written or recorded. Gates voice, and the musical acompanyment are just amazing.A song i feel could never be successfully covered.
***** I definitely hear what you're saying, but a couple things: Don't take the words too literally. I think the bittersweet feel of the song and the last verse specifically show that deep inside of course he wishes with his whole heart that the one he loves and he could be together. I think he's just saying that his love for her and his wishes for her good persist even if they be apart. Even beyond the heartbreak.
I wish I knew how old is Dan. I think that he's younger. It did make sense back in the 70ies but maybe in this century it is a little difficult to understand. Loving changes with time... it is part of the culture.
Hi Dan, I'm 51, she's 47...33 years ago she broke my heart and walked out of my life. 1 and a half years ago she re-entered it. Not in the same capacity, of course, but she came back. I absolutely grieve for " what might have been", all the time that's been lost to us. I found that my love for her is every bit as deep, strong, and pure as it was all those years ago. Perhaps deeper, stronger,and just as pure for she has grown to be a truly amazing woman. She loves me, but has not had good luck in any of her relationships since she left me. This too breaks my heart, if we couldn't be together I wanted her to be blissfully happy where ever she was. This has left the woman of my dreams unwilling to chance it again. Just saying I get where you are coming from. It's a bittersweet blessing to have her back, but not have her at the same time. I can only hope to be the kind of friend to her that she never wants to be without again. Good luck to you...Those are the ones hardest to let go
Thank you Dan. I was reading comments from another song by Bread and I started thinking if younger people can relate to these lyrics. It is difficult to generalize... I dunno. I always feared to get apart for I saw at a very early age people hating and saying terrible things about the one they were married. It didn't happen to me but circumstances separated us. I totally agree with you when you say it "grows for getting to know each other and the memories you build".
Soft rock of the 1970's. Nothing like it. I will NEVER forget this song. It reminded me of my best friend at that time (I was 9). My sister had this 45 (it was black, red and white in color). I even remember that !
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How many songs can make a grown man cry? So darn beautiful, everything about it. For every lost love out there.
We both hear and feel dear Frank !!!
You never ever forget your first true love
Who misses the music of the 70's, from Zeppelin to Donna Summer to David Gates and Bread!
Marvin Gaye, Steve Miller, Electric Light Orchestra, a countless list of true talent
Grateful I grew up in the era of A.M. radio masterpieces like this.
Me too!
This is the first song I remember liking when I was a young kid. It puts me in this wistful mood where I'd like to go back in time and avoid all the mistakes this time.
I feel blessed to live in a time when music like this was made. God bless David Gates.
I never appreciated Bread when I was younger, now my grandchildren and I trade songs and a granddaughter loves them, and so do I.
Same! Except my grandchildren are still a few years away from appreciating music. I sang along in the 70s without realizing that these songs are GOLD. 💔 💔 💔
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Had forgotten how many hit songs Gates and Bread had. Great music!
Productions! Pure and simple musical events in their songs.
Eventually we come to the realization that surrender to what is to be is all that matters.... Thank the Lord for what's to BE ....
The music of Bread is some of the most beautiful ever written
Everytime I hear this song I cry, it touches my heart. I love this one 🥺😭
Me too 🥲
They don't write 'em like that anymore..
@@tonymaddox4081 it's a pitty, great voice, great feeling, wonderful music
Ana Maria CL me too😭
I know how you feel
1974 summer, my first true love girl was moving away for 6 months...she came back and broke up with me. It devastated me for years, and 45 years later still makes me sad. They say you never forget your first true love...I’m here to tell you I’m proof of that. I met her this spring of 2020, and tho she looked great, I married the second love of my life and was better for it. This song brings me back to 1974 like it was yesterday in her yard hanging on a hammock together. I’m listening right now and I’m 18 again!
Yeah tell us what happened to your first? Sid she get married and have kids? Dont leave us hanging like this
i know the feeling, it dont matter to me
Jude Barnes ...It was a rather horrid life path. She married a man of color who she had a boy with, he beat her, got divorced, wanted another kid and got knocked up by another minority (that boy is now a pot farmer). She remains unmarried. She got her college degree in some nondescript degree but not in Child Psych like she wanted when we dated; she became involved in some sort of radio business and is an office manager (yawn).
Be the Change See my response to Jude
@@stevenscalici3470 You described her poor choices in men as a man of color and another minority. What is your point?
A beautiful and timeless classic! Love this song! Such a talented group.
Ahhhhhh, The Best of Bread...nothing touches that album and the utter soulfulness, beautiful lyrics, harmony, and instrumentals. Simply a classic!
A few other albums come close, from other bands but your right there something special about 🍞
One of the most beautiful songs/lyrics I’ve ever heard🐼💜
At 72, this song warms my rusted old heart like in did way back then.
Works at 68 as well!
And 65!!!!
Me to and my heart 💔 isn't that old it good there's still some good decent people who are still caring gives me hope
@@rickmays797 Yes!
People never grows old when you remember and hear your yesteryears.
This is when music had real meaning to it .❤️
All "Bread" music was so relaxing and i love it ❤️❤️❤️
David Gates was truly underrated! Unbelievable arrangements, spectacular lyrics, solid vocals....gosh I miss his stuff! I read that he's living on a ranch in Oregon, still married, led a happy meaningful life...and I'm happy for him. Wonder if he still plays.
He had so many more brilliant songs that never made it to air ways
@@SassaFrass28 David Gates now lives in Mt Vernon Washington!!
If I could write one song even close to this my life would be fulfilled.
I have wished to live this life with the one I have loved 💔
One Beautiful song, lyrics melody, and instruments in harmony. When this band was in top form they were excellent!
This is the most beautiful music
Oh, yeah
"Because there will always be
An empty room waiting for you
An open heart waiting for you"
Really one of the most simple and direct words that could be written about love.
Bread has some gorgeous chill music.
sarap mo liza
I can say with certainty that we ALL have at least one in our past that this would resonate with 🙏🙏❤❤💔💔🌹🌹
Classic Rock lover here, and these guys are yet another who have a legitimate claim for consideration for the RRHOF.
David Gates, yet another great voice. Too many hits to not be in that hall!
Simply timeless. I’ve been listening to this song ever since it came out. Reminds me so much of a love I had to let go in the 70s. Sigh…
For context, I had an outstanding stereo system. The first time two roommates and I listened to this, as the crescendo finale faded, followed by the last "Cuz it don't matter to me" and the song ended, we sat silent, mesmerized, a moment extraordinary enough to still be remembered roughly 45 years later. Thank you David Gates, as well as James Griffin, Mike Botts and Larry Knechtel.
I miss this type of music that can stir me up- 70's
😥
Try tuning into 60’s folk music on Pandora. ❤️
I met the one. For 13 years we were together, last few years it just wasn't working out no matter what we tried we just couldnt move forward together anymore. It's painful, my heart is broken and I miss being us and all that we did and had hoped to do. I hear that life clock ticking all the time and wonder will we ever get back or perhaps God has another plan and will meet someone else just as special. Great songs really do talk to the soul and stir it up. Thank you David Gates and Bread.
So beautifully composed, hadnt heard this in years and was reminded how beautiful and moving it is. What a great song full of memory
It takes allot of guts to give up someone you love with every fiber of your being to someone else, but sometimes watching that special person from afar so happy, in love is as priceless as time itself. 🌹
Damn, you'reading my mind! VERY TRUE!!
In other words- good riddance.
The hole in my heart is still there for my first love in 1974!
My favorite bread song .
I think of the past when I hear this song
Bread made so many beautiful songs, but this may be the most beautiful, at least among the hits. It's just as affecting today as it was all those years ago. Jeez, I never could have imagined that at the time. It's comforting to know that some part of our youthful emotion stays with us through the decades. Thank you for posting this.
Loved Bread....love this song. My favorite of theirs. I could relate!
These guys weren't always considered "cool" but somehow they had a bunch of hits and sold tons of records. Great tune
this song portrays God's love for us... He will always wait for you
Praise GOD!!! ❤
My God, the sweet melody, the serene voice, and now the goosebumps... The calibre of musicians from the 70s were on planet heaven.
We are 'goose-bumped' alongside the dear Pulsonar when it comes to 70s musicians-and-singers-and-writers-and-producers !!!
Agreed.
Wow wow wow, and out of the blue, an ex-boyfriend, from the early seventies, sends a text today.....this song, he felt, reflected how he was feeling at the time, little did I know, he still pined after me, now, almost fifty years later, I now know....
Reading this brought tears to my eyes.
Because you are beautiful, ,😍❤️😘😎!
I still love my first love from high school, who ran off with a 40 year old, when we were 18. Lila gave that old creeper more of the benefit of the doubt than she gave me. Still hurts, more than 30 years later. I thought she was made of stronger stuff. Lila's choice took away mine. I guess I really had no chance at all. I would go to the abyss for her, though. I would sacrifice my own existence for hers. Love the old girl, after all that is said and done, at the end of the day.
So….what did you think/feel? ✌️
Your lying probably for attention
A great singer and song. UNFORGETTABLE!
I adore this song! My mum used to play bread to me when I was little ❤️❤️
This song popped up in my head the last couple of days out of the blue!!! I’ve always loved this song and I looked up the lyrics and it resonates so much with what I am going through… True love has touched me in this lifetime and I am truly blessed to experience it… What is meant for me, will come back around..❤
I feel you. It popped into my head as well. Bread is awesome. Guitar man is a good song too
This song brings back good memories of my Kate mom, who would play the Bread 8 track tape when I was a child. I also appreciate the lyrics of this song; I can relate to it as well.
A beautiful song about unconditional love. David Gate's voice is sublime. Love it!
They don't make songs like this anymore!
That is for sure! No more beautiful music like this!
Such a cerebral song.
They sure don't! 😁
That's because there's no love anymore!
And I say so with great remorse and sadness. Not condemnation. Because it’s completely unnecessary.
This is a deeply personal time traveling song. A song that brings reflection and contemplation of things that might have been... or not been.
Well said..
Time travel! This song played on the AM radio all through high school and I was oblivious to how relevant it would be someday when I would hear it from my smart phone as I reminisced about The One Who Got Away. Too many feels 💔
71 YEARS old and still a tear
67 and a tear
66 and same here
dad used to sing this song. he sounded even better than they do. miss him so much.
Who is your dad? Where can we hear him?
Timeless music from a timeless group!!! Beautiful lyrics and all!!!!
I wish life was as good now as it was when we were listening to this song....Modern music has descended in Hades....
Always loved this song
Transcendent
what a beautiful song....
.... I find myself saying this alot anymore... 'Cause it don't matter to me.... Whatever the Lord has for me , it's OK. What a relief.
David Gates has the most soothing voice Bread is by far one of the best bands there ever was! Those memories of a younger time
These Guy's have to have 5 of the top 20 love songs of all time.
This song reminds me of the 70's.
This man’s voice and the lyrics to this song are beyond beautiful ❤
I've loved this song for 50 years now! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Me too!!
My late Mom used to play this song on her Panasonic 8 track stereo. It was in my head all day at work so I played it here & it brought back so many fond memories of her. The production quality of this recording is excellent & instrumentally the band were pretty damn good.
It don't matter to me. Yes it does. This was the first put together super group. Later you will have had super tramp and others. But David Gates like I said before has a beautiful voice. I have sent many females songs by them and they said they cried. Says it all.
Bread's first album is actually my favorite of the bunch. It only had one hit (this song) but the album itself turned out to be real pleasant, sounding like a little bit of Pet Sounds Beach Boys mixed with 1968 Beatles.
Btw listening in 2024!! Who else? 🙋♂️🙋♂️
An old man retired on his spread out west. This man has virtually done it all. Recordings prove it. Wow...I keenly remember my 1969.
Some of these lyrics came running across my mind and no doubt I had to do a search.This song does reach out to my heart.🥰💯Love always makes a place in your life.😇Bringing it back.
This song is perfection!!!! I Love Bread!!!!
this song makes me cry....
Awesome song...the true meaning of love. If you love something/someone, let it/them go, if it/they return it's/they're yours forever. The only difference is that it matters a lot! Thanks so much for the beautiful walk down memory lane!
So simple, yet hauntingly beautiful.
This is a lesson on writing and arranging a song. These guys are master on this.
Oh how I dig this song
I just can't get over how well-crafted this song is, lyrically and musically. David Gates and Bread- true musical genius!
I never tire of this precious masterpiece! Sincerely, BobbyK
this has got to be my very fav.there are just so many.this old man dreams on !
I always Adored this classic from David Gates and Bread.... 💗 💜💜💙 👍🏻
The orchestration is killer. Missed that on AM radio when I was in 5th or 6th grade. My late mother enjoyed this. Wiping tears away corner of Ninth and42nd west of Times Square.
I love "the best" of several genres of music in part because MA paid for piano lessons. This song is on my PLAY THIS LIST OF SONGS AT MY WAKE document.
certainly one of the best soft rock groups of the 70's...what a real real nice song, Gates is great
true and im 28 yearsold😊
Agreement of a thousand percent into dear Groovinmoose as regards the 'soft rock power' of dear Bread and dear David-of-Gates-ness !!!
This song always brings tears to my eyes. No matter when I'm listening to it
Bread.......Oh Bread......let me tell you ......I never knew whether to Cry or feel happy with every song this Group wrote. Literally....I got to the point that I just can't listen to Bread. I am an extremely emotional person with severe PTSD. Which I since 10 yrs old just cant get over. With every form of Rx,therapists, doctors, nothing works.but im happy with my family 👪 👪 👨👧👧 👩👧👧 👨👩👧👦 👨👩👧👧 👨👩👦👦 👪. Bread is extremely talented ,beautiful music unlike anything ever created.The lyrics,the chords,their voices.perfect. It just goes to my Sad part of my Brain 🧠 and its not a good feeling. Wish I could understand why.
God bless you
Thank you ...I appreciate that..likewise to you and your family.
Yes this music should come with a warning for the extremely sensitive emotional person...I only listened to this today because I heard the last part on the radio and I hadn't heard it in while...I won't go into the details of why my 1st boyfriend sent a cassette tape with this song on it, years ago, but Bread's music is tear jerking for me as well. I can't listen to it without sadness coming up. Well try to find music that has a more uplifting effect, like Pharrell Williams song Happy maybe :)...Take care.
For everyone who ever let 'the one' get away, whether it was your choice, theirs, or mutual... this song sums it up. I still love her, and this post.
Bread just has a way with lyrics that really brings out emtions
Rewinding back to 1970
Another sweet beautiful song.
This i feel without a doubt has to be one of the greatest songs to ever be written or recorded.
Gates voice, and the musical acompanyment are just amazing.A song i feel could never be successfully covered.
These lyrics still resonate to this day.
There just aren't many bands that write love song any better than Bread! A guilty pleasure back in the day for sure!
So Much Depth & Soul & Truth! Breads' Music Is So Absolutely Soul Baring & Emotionally Wrenching!
It don't matter to me
Seriously tugs at your heart strings that's for sure
Bread ruled the top 30 back in tbe '70s. Hit after hit,,
They broke up around 73 74 through around 76..
Tulsan dun good
My favorite song from Bread. I relate to this so much.
Absolutely beautiful masterpiece, solid gold standard of excellence
Unconditional love and respect!
I've missed it all my life...that year me was the best music era and ill always miss it
The words sums things up almost to the T. Yay a! ❤️✌🏼🍁🎶🎶⚒💪🏼🐕🏝🏖☘️😽
Beautiful video to match beautiful song that is just as relevant today as it was back in the hippy days when it was new.
one of the best bands ever-and a great singer and great words
Dear Janelle-of-Miller causes us to inhale deeply-and-sharply with hand-upon-chest due to the 'spot-on-ness' of her words !!!
To me the greatest love song ever, it has always blown me away and at the same time it never fails to hurt.
I learned to play guitar back in the 70's . Bread was one of my influences for finger picking like IF .
A quiet spring morning & playing along with this tune is just what I needed.
It is what the entire world needs, dear Mindfield7 !!! On any morning !!!
oh wow this is soul searching. never be another band as good as this ever xx
A true wordsmith ,music that causes you to sit back and reflect on your life ,it's agood thing .
Thank you Mr. Gates!
Brilliant song. One of Gates's very best.
*****
I definitely hear what you're saying, but a couple things: Don't take the words too literally. I think the bittersweet feel of the song and the last verse specifically show that deep inside of course he wishes with his whole heart that the one he loves and he could be together. I think he's just saying that his love for her and his wishes for her good persist even if they be apart. Even beyond the heartbreak.
I wish I knew how old is Dan. I think that he's younger. It did make sense back in the 70ies but maybe in this century it is a little difficult to understand.
Loving changes with time... it is part of the culture.
Hi Dan, I'm 51, she's 47...33 years ago she broke my heart and walked out of my life. 1 and a half years ago she re-entered it. Not in the same capacity, of course, but she came back. I absolutely grieve for " what might have been", all the time that's been lost to us. I found that my love for her is every bit as deep, strong, and pure as it was all those years ago. Perhaps deeper, stronger,and just as pure for she has grown to be a truly amazing woman. She loves me, but has not had good luck in any of her relationships since she left me. This too breaks my heart, if we couldn't be together I wanted her to be blissfully happy where ever she was. This has left the woman of my dreams unwilling to chance it again. Just saying I get where you are coming from. It's a bittersweet blessing to have her back, but not have her at the same time. I can only hope to be the kind of friend to her that she never wants to be without again. Good luck to you...Those are the ones hardest to let go
Thank you Dan. I was reading comments from another song by Bread and I started thinking if younger people can relate to these lyrics. It is difficult to generalize... I dunno.
I always feared to get apart for I saw at a very early age people hating and saying terrible things about the one they were married.
It didn't happen to me but circumstances separated us.
I totally agree with you when you say it "grows for getting to know each other and the memories you build".
Sure is.
A song of hope and understanding
Love this kind of music just reminds me of the good ole days in the 70s❤❤❤❤
Agreed
Me too, Glenice!
Soft rock of the 1970's. Nothing like it. I will NEVER forget this song. It reminded me of my best friend at that time (I was 9). My sister had this 45 (it was black, red and white in color). I even remember that !
+alan spagnolia Your out of your mind.
Wow, man. Why is the guy out of his mind? Childhood memories are beautiful. Jesus, chill the fuck out.
What a song, it doesn't get much better than this!
yeah it's always there, that time that place it's there
oh honey it can be better we are in denial and it does matter😉
this is one of the most underated songs ever in my opinion.just outstanding