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If You Leave Me Now Lyrics
If you leave me now, you'll take away the biggest part of me
No baby please don't go
If you leave me now, you'll take away the very heart of me
No baby please don't go
A love like ours is love that's hard to find
How could we let it slip away
We've come too far to leave it all behind
How could we end it all this way
When tomorrow comes we'll both regret
Things we said today
A love like ours is love that's hard to find
How could we let it slip away
We've come too far to leave it all behind
How could we end it all this way
When tomorrow comes we'll both regret
Things we said today
If you leave me now, you'll take away the biggest part of me
No baby please don't go
Oh girl, just got to have you by my side
No baby, please don't go
Oh mama, I just got to have your lovin, yeah
We've come too far to leave it all behind
No baby please don't go
If you leave me now, you'll take away the very heart of me
No baby please don't go
How could we let it slip away
We've come too far to leave it all behind
How could we end it all this way
When tomorrow comes we'll both regret
Things we said today
How could we let it slip away
We've come too far to leave it all behind
How could we end it all this way
When tomorrow comes we'll both regret
Things we said today
No baby please don't go
Oh girl, just got to have you by my side
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That's such a great ballad! I just love the guitar solo, the orchestra parts, this swinging bass line... and Peter Cetera's indescribable sweet vocals. I have often listened to this song when I was feeling lovesick... sad stories, but great music, that made me feel better
Oh yeah.Exactly.
Oh yeah.Exactly.
I agree with all three who have posted comments before me. Everyone I know calls me a dork for listening to sappy '70's-'80's era love ballads (and not just for their camp value) but you know, in an age where most everyone's a cynic, the honesty and emotion in the lyrics is definitely welcomed. Glad to know I'm not the only one who likes this song for something other than its 'wink, wink, tongue planted firmly in cheek' value. Just gorgeous, that's what this song is.
Really sweet and sad song. One of my favorites!
Its a classic!! :-)
This song represents the second phase of Chicago, where Peter Ceteral used the band as a vehicle to launch his solo career and the band members were replaced with a bunch of people from Toto.
Regardless, I still like the song. Cetera wrote this about his wife, who wanted to divorce him.
AWWWW, he is pleading for her to come back to him.
Thanks for improving my feelings for this overplayed little gem from a once cutting edge terrific and kind of scary wonderful band of the seventies.
Same here... I'm a Lamm-era Chicago fan who vastly prefers "Does Anybody Really Know" and "Saturday In The Park", and as a young thing I always considered this song (a) played way too often on the radio and (b) an eerie foreboding of the excesses of the approaching Cetera era. Good to be reminded it was a good song after all. No Lamm composition, of course... but good.
Same here... I'm a Lamm-era Chicago fan who vastly prefers "Does Anybody Really Know" and "Saturday In The Park", and as a young thing I always considered this song (a) played way too often on the radio and (b) an eerie foreboding of the excesses of the approaching Cetera era. Good to be reminded it was a good song after all. No Lamm composition, of course... but good.
If this song isn't ever depressing...especially after you go through a breakup! I dub the Chicago "Heart of Chicago" album an official "Breakup" album!!! I love this song...it's great.
what a classic ballad. An intense plea, so much passion. all-time great
such a beautiful lyric...