Real Love

Album: One Step Closer (1980)
Charted: 5
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  • Darlin', I know I'm just another head on your pillow
    If only just tonight, girl, let me hear you lie just a little
    Tell me I'm the only man that you ever really loved
    Honey, take me back in my memory place
    When it was all very right, so very nice, so very nice
    Here, darlin', stands another bandit wanting you
    In and out your life, they come and they go
    Your days and nights like a wheel that turns
    Grindin' down a secret part of you
    Deep inside your heart, that nobody knows

    When you say comfort me to anyone who approaches
    Chalkin' up the hurt, you live and you learn
    Well, we've both lived long enough to know
    That we'd trade it all right now for just one minute of real love, real love

    When you say comfort me to anyone who approaches
    Chalkin' up the hurt, you live and you learn
    Well, we've both lived long enough to know
    That we'd trade it all right now for just one minute of real love, real love Writer/s: MICHAEL H MC DONALD, PATRICK HENDERSON
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 9

  • AnonymousAs this site is called song facts I have to say there’s lot about lyrics in the internet but little to zero about instrumental versions of songs in general, which I cannot understand because lyrics without sound are like poems and when listening to the music there is need of it
  • Female123A such a beautiful song with a sound and acoustic temperature to listen many times again and again and again to get the text chorus fully together with the instruments in total harmonic style.
  • AnonymousI believe that this song is a man that is sleeping with a woman who has not settled down yet who might still be playing around having various meaningless relationships and he is trying to convince her to take a chance on him.
  • Chris From Planet Earth from EarthThis song is extremely intense and moving. The girl seeks comfort wherever she can get it, and McDonald is urging her (and longing himself) to find REAL love.

    The line "Well, we've both lived long enough to know that we'd trade it all right now for just one minute of real love" is so intense. We'd trade everything for JUST 1 MINUTE of real love. Think about that.
  • Mark from NhI believe the comment above that says this song "was probably inspired by Michael McDonald's love interest Amy Holland" is incorrect. The lyrics are about a woman who has many lovers who "come and go", and the man is telling her "we'd trade it all (ie the casual sex) right now for just one minute of real love". It's unlikely that he was inspired to write this about the woman he was about to marry!
  • Steve from NycTechnically, isn't he already in bed with her. The opening line tells us, "Darling, I know I'm just another head on your pillow"...
  • Markantney from BiloxeAug 2015,

    I remember as a young Teen hearing this on the Radio for the first time and in the middle of my FIRST Real Crush,..I just knew this song was going to climb up to #1, never made it. I also knew/thought McDonald wouldn't be with the group much longer, ala, MJ and Lionel.

    Which is why I know there's injustice in the world.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn August 31st 1980, "Real Love" by the Doobie Brothers entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #40; and on October 19th, 1980 it peaked at #5 {for 2 weeks} and spent 16 weeks on the Top 100...
    In reached #2 on the Canadian RPM 100 Singles chart and #10 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Tracks chart...
    The California-based group had twenty-seven Top 100 records; five made the Top 10 with two reaching #1, "Black Water" for 1 week on March 8th, 1975 and "What a Fool Believes" for 1 week in April 8th, 1979...
    They just missed having seven Top 10 records when both "Listen to the Music" and "Take Me in Your Arms" peaked at #11...
    I've said this in earlier posts, but without the Doobie Brothers, the Rock 'N Roll Hall of Fame is a joke!
  • Kurtis from Portland, OrWhen Michael sings "When she says comfort me" in the bridge of this song,The feeling and intensity in his voice is so overpowering,that you know he means it, and its comming for his heart.
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