Biography:
A member of the popular group Bread, David Gates is also a songwriter, keyboardist, vocalist and producer. His first hit as a songwriter came with the popular Mermaids song Popsicles and Icicles.
David Gates was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma to a band director and a piano teacher on December 11, 1940. Surrounded by music from birth, he was proficient in piano, bass and guitar by the time he was in high school. In 1957, he received a musical break when Chuck Berry came to Tulsa; Gates had his first hit, Jo-Baby, with Chuck Berry.
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You sheltered me from harm
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kept me warm kept me warm
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You gave my life to me
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set me free set me free
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The finest years I ever knew
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were all the years I had with you
CHORUS
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And I would give anything I own
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Give up my life my heart my home
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I would give everything I own
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just to have you back again
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You taught me how to love what it's of what it's of
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You never said too much but still you showed the way
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and I knew from watching you
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Nobody else could ever know the part of me that can't let go
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Is there someone you know you're loving them so
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but taking them all for granted
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You may lose them one day someone takes them away
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and they don't hear the words you long to say
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just to touch you once again
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