Album: To Whom It May Concern (1972)

Charted: 9 16

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• If ever you got rain in your heart
  Someone has hurt you, and torn you apart
  Am I unwise to open up your eyes to love me?
  
  And let it be like they said it would be
  Me loving you girl, and you loving me
  Am I unwise to open up your eyes to love me?
  
  Run to me whenever you're lonely (to love me)
  Run to me if you need a shoulder
  Now and then, you need someone older
  So darling, you run to me
  
  And when you're out in the cold
  No one beside you, and no one to hold
  Am I unwise to open up your eyes to love me?
  
  And when you've got nothing to lose
  Nothing to pay for, nothing to choose
  Am I unwise to open up your eyes to love me
  
  Run to me whenever you're lonely (to love me)
  Run to me if you need a shoulder
  Now and then you need someone older
  So darling, you run to me
  
  Run to me whenever you're lonely
  Run to me if you need a shoulder
  Now and then you need someone older
  So darling, you run to me
  
  Run to me whenever you're lonely
  Run to me if you need a shoulder
  Now and then you need someone older Writer/s: Barry Gibb, Maurice Ernest Gibb, Robin Hugh Gibb
  Publisher: CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 5

• Greg Palmer from Elon, NcOlympic Gold medalist Oscar de la Hoya had a hit with a cover of this song in late 2000. The Spanish version, "Ven a Mi," spent a week at the top of the Billboard Latin chart. The English version peaked at #22 on Radio & Records' Adult Contemporary chart.
• Mitchell from Liverpool, UkIn both the US and UK, this would be the brothers' last significant hit for three years, until they began their comeback in 1975 with 'Jive Talkin'.
• Seventhmist from 7th HeavenSusannah Hoffs and Matthew Sweet did a great cover of this song.
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn July 23rd 1972, "Run To Me" by the Bee Gees entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #83; and on September 17th, 1972 it peaked at #16 (for 2 weeks) and spent 12 weeks on the Top 100...
  It reached #3 on the Australian Kent Music Report chart...
  The trio's record that preceded on the Top 100, "My World", also peaked at #16 on the chart, plus it also reached #3 in Australia...
  R.I.P. Maurice (1949 - 2003), Robin (1949 - 2012), and Barry will celebrated his 68th birthday in two months on September 1st, 2014.
• Camille from Toronto, OhJust one of the many songs by the Brothers Gibb at their best.

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