“Everything I Own” – Bread
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“Everything I Own” sounds as if it could be about a romantic partner who’s no longer around, but songwriter and Bread front-man David Gates wrote it as a tribute to his deceased father.
Gates recalled: “My father was kind and gentle and revered by everyone. . . . He always had time for me and taught me to read and write music, play various instruments and introduced me to classical music, my foundation. . . . I wanted to write a song in memory of him. He did live to see some of my early progress towards success, but not the major songs or stardom with Bread.”
The songwriter also stated, “I wrote the lyrics – ‘I would give everything I own just to have you back again’ – so that they could be interpreted as a love song, but when I played it for my wife, she knew right away that it was about my father. She cried.”
“Everything I Own” sounds as if it could be about a romantic partner who’s no longer around, but songwriter and Bread front-man David Gates wrote it as a tribute to his deceased father.
Gates recalled: “My father was kind and gentle and revered by everyone. . . . He always had time for me and taught me to read and write music, play various instruments and introduced me to classical music, my foundation. . . . I wanted to write a song in memory of him. He did live to see some of my early progress towards success, but not the major songs or stardom with Bread.”
The songwriter also stated, “I wrote the lyrics – ‘I would give everything I own just to have you back again’ – so that they could be interpreted as a love song, but when I played it for my wife, she knew right away that it was about my father. She cried.”
