Bee Gees

Released: June 22, 1973

Songwriter: Maurice Gibb Robin Gibb Barry Gibb

Producer: Barry Gibb Maurice Gibb Robin Gibb

[Verse 1: Barry Gibb]
Maybe there's a reason why we broke up
I could dedicate my life to something new
But I must have been asleep but then I woke up
Working out why I was still with you
All the things I wish I could have been

[Chorus: Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb]
Wouldn't I be someone, someone
And I would be respected
In the prime of my life, I'll do everything right
I'll begin
Wouldn't I be something, something
I would get a reputation
In the prime of my life, I'll do everything right
I'll begin

[Verse 2:Robin Gibb]
Midnight stars are shining on my shoeshine
Telling me the things I'm gonna be
Now the hurts all gone, I've pushed them all behind me
And the world is gonna fall in love with me
All the things I wish I could have been

[Chorus: Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb]

The three Gibb brothers were very close as children and spent most of their time together. Barry was born in 1946, and his twin brothers Maurice and Robin were born in 1949. Together, they went on to become one of the most popular bands of the 1970s.

The Bee Gees have sold more than 220 million records worldwide, and functioned as a group almost continuously from 1958 to 2003, when Maurice Gibb suddenly died during a coma.

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