Aretha Franklin Pretender, Giving In & I wanna make it up to you / Lyrics

Hello All,

This is my first time here and I hope you all are fine.

I was wondering if any of you guys could help me with Aretha's lyrics.

I am despertely need lyrics for 3 songs: "Pretender", "Giving in" ['Get it right' album] and "I wanna make it up to you" ['Jump to it' album].

Unfortunately the lyrics are not available anywhere in the web and the album do not have lyrics sleeve either. I have loooked for them everythere:[[

I tried to transcript them but there are some part I am not able to work words out. I will post it below and if anyone could help out I would be very greatful.

With Best Wishes,

Kamil :)


PRETENDER

Pretender
Pretender

I wake myself up every time
I daydream of love for you and me
Cause I’m just fooling myself
I should remember
You’re just a pretender

[[No one but a pretender)
Can’t love no one
[[Pretending to be in love)
Oh Pretender
[[No one but a pretender)
Can’t love no one
[[Pretending to be in love)

You can’t trust the imagination
It never tells you [………….] [[I hear: full story?)
You don’t give love
You’re just a [………..] [[I hear: mender?)
I should remember
You’re just a pretender

[[No one but a pretender)
Can’t love no one
[[Pretending to be in love)

Oh I wanna be
I want to be what you want
Everything you could be
Everything
Everything I could dream of
Everything could dream of
But I really should be your
Really should be your love
Giving’ your feeling’ your having’ your love
Oh pretend pretender
Give me your love
Oh yeah

Pretender
Why can’t you be free?
Oh babe pretender
Why won’t you believe in what you feel?

[………………………………………]...........................]
[.................................................. ............]
I know that you did what I’m saying
It’s [……………………………………………………………………….]

No one but a pretender
Can’t love no one
Pretending to be in love
Oh Pretender
No one but a pretender
Can’t love no one
Pretending to be in love
Oh pretender


GIVING IN
Baby oh
Oh yeah
I’m giving in to you
Giving in cause love you
Take my love take it all
Put your trust in the scars

I will love you baby
Yeah I really love you
Yeah yeah I really love you

I’m giving everything I own
Take it all honey
Take me home
Give in when I care
I ain’t holding back
I want be girl to give this and that

I will love you
Yeah I really love you baby
Yeah yeah I really love you

Take as much of my love boy
To your heart’s delight
I’ll keep it to your names day and night
If you want a thing
You never really had
Couse [……………….] [[I hear: this silly) girl’s love is truly there

I will love you baby
Yeah I really love you

I can see in my mind
Very love very fun
It’s like a paradise
So what else can I do
I’m giving in to you

Giving in to you
Giving in cause I love you
You’re so sweet
You’re so kind
[…………………………….]
Wanna do it with passion
Oh baby
Giving in giving in you
All am I cause I love you
Oh baby
Giving in giving in giving in cause I love you
Giving in giving in giving in cause I love you
Giving in. Love you baby
You re so sweet you’re so kind
Wish today you’re mine
You’re the only boy the only boy there for me
Set for the other free
Yeah yeah yeah


I WANNA MAKE IT UP TO YOU
I’ll make it up to you / x3

I wanna make it up to you
Yes I do
For all the things I put you through
Yes I do
Please forgive me for the lies
[1)………………………………………..]
I sincerely apologize

Darling we……………
It’s too much to let go now
If I wasn’t sure believe me
This I know now
You’re the only one
Come back my morning sun
All I wanna do is
I wanna make it up to you, boy

I wanna love you in the night
Do it right
Let’s do this thing, girl
Do it right
Give it time
Let’s put the pieces back in place
No time to waste
No one will ever share your space
[2)………………] everything about you [3)……]
Still [4)…………………………..]
Yes [5)……………………………]
Restore my trust and faith
Come back don’t hesitate
All I wanna do
I wanna make it up to you girl yeah

You know if we could try it just one more time
Hey baby I promise you
That my star will shine
Oh yeah
And if we should ever reach for the moment
And [7)………………………….]
Just let me be
Wherever you are wherever you are
Oh darling oh darling
Sweet baby sweet baby

[9)………………] in everything about you know
Still I really miss you
Yes yes [10)………………………..]
Restore my trust and faith
Do it do it do it do it
Come back don’t hesitate
All I wanna do
I wanna make it up to you boy
I wanna make it up to you boy
Yeah I wanna make it up to you boy
Baby I wanna make it up to you boy

Make it up to you girl
Make it up make it up make it up



GI

PRETENDER

Pretender
Ooh
Pretender

I wake myself up every time
I daydream of love for you and me
'Cause I’m just fooling myself
I should remember
You’re just a pretender of love

[[Nothing but a pretender)
Can’t love no one
[[Pretending to be in love)
Ooh, pretender
[[No one but a pretender)
Can’t love no one
[[Pretends to be in love)

You can’t trust the imagination
It never tells you who's for real
You don’t give love
You’re just a lender
I should remember
That you’re just a pretender

[[Nothing but a pretender)
Can’t love no one
[[Pretending to be in love)

Oh but I wanted [[to be your)
I wanted to be [[to be your lover)
To be what you wanted
Everything you could need
Oh yeah [[Every)
You were everything [[I could dream of)
I ever could dream of
But I really [[should be your)
Really should be [[should be your lover)
Keeping your, feeling your, having your love
Oh, pretender [[pretender)
Pretender,
Give me your love


Pretender,
Why can’t you be for real?
Aw, baby
Pretender,
Why won't you believe in what you feel?

Well, I thought you were mine, baby, all the time
And I know that you dig what I'm sayin'
It's a player's dream just to have a fool
But sweet baby, I ain't playin'
It's funky nothin's, baby

[[Nothing but a pretender) [Etc.]

GIVING IN

Baby ooh
Oh yeah
I’m giving in to you
Giving in cause I love you
Take my love, take it all
Put your trust in this cause

'Cause I will love you baby
[[Yeah, I really love you babe)
[[Yeah, yeah, I really love you)

I’m giving everything I own
Take it all honey
Take me home
Giving when I can
I ain’t holding back
I want be the girl to give you this and that

I will love you
[[Yeah, I really love you baby)
[[Yeah, yeah, I really love you)

Take as much of my love, boy
To your heart’s delight
I’ll give it to you nice, day and night
Give you what I think
You never really had
'Cause this here girl’s love is truly bad

And I will love you baby
[[Yeah, I really love you baby)
[[Yeah, yeah, I really love you)



[[I really love you, yeah)
[[I really love you, baby)
[[Yeah, yeah, I really love you)

I can see in my mind
Very lovely, very fine
It’s like paradise
So what else can I do
I’m giving in
In to you

Giving in to you
Giving in 'cause I love you
You’re so sweet
You’re so kind
Got to give in once
It ain't no lie
I wanna do it with passion
Oh baby
Giving in, giving in to you
With all of my heart, 'cause I love you baby
Giving, giving in to you, giving in, 'cause I love you
Giving, giving in to you, giving into this, 'cause I love you
Giving in, ooh I love you baby
You're so sweet and you’re so kind
Wish today you were all mine, boy
Giving in
You’re the only, only boy in the world for me
Except for the other freaks [?]
Yeah yeah yeah

I WANNA MAKE IT UP TO YOU

[[I’ll make it up to you) [X3]

I wanna make it up to you
[[Yes, I do)
For all the things I put you through
[[Yes, I do)
Please forgive me for the lies
[[Tear stained eyes)
I sincerely apologize

Darling, realize
It’s too much to let go now
If I wasn’t sure, believe me
This I know now
You’re the only one
Come back, my morning sun
[[All I wanna do)
Is I wanna make it up to you, boy

I wanna love you in the night yeah
[[Do it right)
Let’s do this thing, girl
Do it right
[[Give it time)
Let’s put the pieces back in place
Put 'em there, baby [[No time to waste) yeah
No one will ever share your space
I've gotten over you [[Yes, Yes)
Everything about you now [[Pretty baby)
But still I reminisce [[And I'm free)
Yes, I really doubt you now
Restore my trust and faith
Come back, don’t hesitate
[[All I wanna do)
I wanna make it up to you girl/boy yeah

You know if we could try, just one more time
Hey baby, I promise you
That my star will shine
Oh yeah
And if you should ever reach for the moon
And fall among the stars
Just let me be well
Wherever you are, wherever you are
Oh darling, ooh darling,
Oh darling, oh darling
Sweet baby, sweet baby

Gotten over you, gotten over you
And everything about you now, everything about you now
Still I reminisce, still I reminisce
Yes, yes, and I really doubt you now, really doubt you now
Restore my trust and faith, do it, do it, do it, girl
Come back, don’t hesitate
'Cause all I wanna do, all I wanna do
Is I wanna make it up to you, boy/girl
I wanna make it up to you, boy/girl
Yeah, I wanna make it up to you, boy/girl
Umm, baby
I wanna make it up to you, boy/girl

[[Make it up to you, girl)
Make it up, make it up, make it up
Your big brown sexy eyes, baby
[[I wanna make it up to you, boy) [[Make it up to your, girl)
I'm so glad, so glad I realized [[Hey, wanna make it up to you, girl)
["Make it up" vocals continue under/between the following lines]:
I love everything about you, girl
Do you really? Tell me about it
Yes, I do
Tell me now
All night long
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Those brown shoes are gonna rip and fall apart
Pretty red dress, you say you need it
I'll find a way somehow
Well, well
I love, I love, I love, I love the way you handle yourself
And I love it when you love me, girl
In a room full of other men, you rise and you stand above everybody else
I can see the envy of their eyes
Oh, baby
When you and I walk off, ey girl
Sweet thing
Sweet baby
Sweet, sweet thing
Sweet thing
Aw, won't you do it again now
One more, one more, one more
Ey, one more time
One more, one more, one more
Make it up to me, baby
Do the best I can
Make it up to me, baby
Do the best I can
Love ya, love ya, love ya
Be the kind of man

Hello Kamil. Welcome to Soulful Detroit. "I Want to Make it Up to You" is one of my all time favorite recordings. I will see what I can find for you. Smallwood has it pretty much down though.

Hi smallworld!
Thank you so much for your help and time to fill in gaps the lyrics. I would never figure them out. Thank you so very much. Have a great day!
Kamil :)

Hello marv2.
Thank you! I dicovered this great forum few days ago and I am here every day since then.
Greetings from London, UK

Welcome kamil!! I am in London too!!! I joined the forum wow it must be 2 years ago now and I still love it.

By the way I totally would have helped you with these lyrics but it looks like smallworld already sorted them out for you. :cool:

"I Wanna Make It Up To You" is a pretty long song as I recall [[and a pretty good one!!) and it's got Levi & The Four Tops on it too. A great combo if I've ever heard one. :D

Hi TomatoTom123 and thanks.

I have recently bought 4 Aretha's CD albums from the Atlantic era [["With everything I feel in me", "Sweet passio", "La diva" and "You" and I would need some help with sorting our some lyrics. I will post them here soon and I will appriciate it if you could help out.
I have been always been motown, funky, soul and that kind of music fan. Aretha is my favourite artist and I have been collecting everything her for ages.
It is shame that so many lyrics are not available on line etc.
As non native English speaker it is hard for me to get them right.

This forum is wicked and thanks to people like smallworld and other I can fully undersand my favourite cuts from Aretha :)

Welcome to the Forum, kamilbc!

Wow, I’m having major envy that you scored those Aretha titles on CD! Here’s hoping the U.S. market will follow suit...or are they official?

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Originally Posted by kamilbc

Hi TomatoTom123 and thanks.

I have recently bought 4 Aretha's CD albums from the Atlantic era [["With everything I feel in me", "Sweet passio", "La diva" and "You" and I would need some help with sorting our some lyrics. I will post them here soon and I will appriciate it if you could help out.
I have been always been motown, funky, soul and that kind of music fan. Aretha is my favourite artist and I have been collecting everything her for ages.
It is shame that so many lyrics are not available on line etc.
As non native English speaker it is hard for me to get them right.

This forum is wicked and thanks to people like smallworld and other I can fully undersand my favourite cuts from Aretha :)

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Oh wow kamil I didn't know that those Aretha albums had actually been released on CD!? I downloaded most of Aretha's stuff a while back but couldn't find any of those albums you mentioned on download. I'm a big fan of both Lamont Dozier and Van McCoy who I know produced Sweet Passion and La Diva [[each) so I must look into getting them.

I am also a fan of Motown, soul and funk and all that kinda music... it's just the best. :cool: and this forum is definitely the best place to be if you are... :)

I do love Aretha but I'm still getting into a lot of her stuff. As an Aretha fan kamil can I ask your opinion on a cut I've been loving for a while now... "United Together"... honestly this chorus does things to me!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RgA6obT8Ks

Hi sansradio,

All 4 CDs I have [["Sweet passion", "You", "La Diva" and "With everything I feel in me") were released by BMG Ariola S.A EU in 2008. I don't think these are official releases though Wikipedia mentioned them.
I saw them back in 2009 in music shops in Italy or Poland but now they have vanished.
The quality of the recordings is not excellent and I think they were not digitalised from the masters that's for sure.
I have read somewhere the story saying that when Aretha left Atlantic Records in 1979, she left with the masters to these 4 albums. That means, Aretha, not Atlantic, owned the rights to these albums. So? Aretha had complete control over the reissuing of this material. As a result, these five albums have never been reissued, remastered, or even released to CD, or cassette, or digital.
A deal was reportedly in the works to reissue the elusive 5 Aretha Franklin albums in a box set back in 2012. Roger Friedman [[who broke the news of Aretha’s condition before her death) reported that Aretha reached a distribution deal with Universal Music Group, but no further information ever came to be. It’s unfortunate because the reissues were set to include a dozen unreleased tracks from the various sessions, essentially an album of material on it’s own. Will we ever see these 6 albums released to streaming services? Only time will tell. I hope they will be reissued.

I have uploaded these 4 albums into my Google Drive in FLAC loseless quality. I can share them with anybody who would like to have them. Please send me a private message and I will send you back links to download.

Here you go some pictures of the albums I own.

Kamil

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Hey TomatoTom123

The song is taken from the first album recorded for Arista. I remeber when I heard that song somewhere and at that time I was not much into Aretha. It was one of the cut that cought my eye on her. I really love the melody and lyrics of this song.
Then I discovered my next fav albums from Aretha : "Who's zooming who?", "Get it right" and "Jump to it".

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Originally Posted by kamilbc

Hi sansradio,

All 4 CDs I have [["Sweet passion", "You", "La Diva" and "With everything I feel in me") were released by BMG Ariola S.A EU in 2008. I don't think these are official releases though Wikipedia mentioned them.
I saw them back in 2009 in music shops in Italy or Poland but now they have vanished.
The quality of the recordings is not excellent and I think they were not digitalised from the masters that's for sure.
I have read somewhere the story saying that when Aretha left Atlantic Records in 1979, she left with the masters to these 4 albums. That means, Aretha, not Atlantic, owned the rights to these albums. So? Aretha had complete control over the reissuing of this material. As a result, these five albums have never been reissued, remastered, or even released to CD, or cassette, or digital.
A deal was reportedly in the works to reissue the elusive 5 Aretha Franklin albums in a box set back in 2012. Roger Friedman [[who broke the news of Aretha’s condition before her death) reported that Aretha reached a distribution deal with Universal Music Group, but no further information ever came to be. It’s unfortunate because the reissues were set to include a dozen unreleased tracks from the various sessions, essentially an album of material on it’s own. Will we ever see these 6 albums released to streaming services? Only time will tell. I hope they will be reissued.

I have uploaded these 4 albums into my Google Drive in FLAC loseless quality. I can share them with anybody who would like to have them. Please send me a private message and I will send you back links to download.

Here you go some pictures of the albums I own.

Kamil

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Thanks for the info, images and offer! I remember the plans to re-release these; yes, Ms. Franklin indeed owned the rights to them. I used to own them all on vinyl, but lost all my records [[long story). Thanks again; I'll think about it!

No worries! Drop me a line when you want the links.

Ooooooooh great pictures kamil! I hope all these albums [[and that unreleased stuff) do get released, otherwise it's like there's a big hole in Aretha's catalog, in terms of CDs/digital anyway!

And I might have to take you up on that offer!!!! :)

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Originally Posted by kamilbc

Hey TomatoTom123

The song is taken from the first album recorded for Arista. I remeber when I heard that song somewhere and at that time I was not much into Aretha. It was one of the cut that cought my eye on her. I really love the melody and lyrics of this song.
Then I discovered my next fav albums from Aretha : "Who's zooming who?", "Get it right" and "Jump to it".

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kamil, I totally agree with everything you have said, it's a song that totally caught my ear too. And those albums are fantastic, well what I've listened to of them anyway... I still have some listening to do!!!!

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Originally Posted by TomatoTom123

I do love Aretha but I'm still getting into a lot of her stuff. As an Aretha fan kamil can I ask your opinion on a cut I've been loving for a while now... "United Together"... honestly this chorus does things to me!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RgA6obT8Ks

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Fun fact: this song was co-written by Phil Perry. The SAME Phil Perry who covered "Call Me" in 1991.

Guys I am looking for lyrics of the song below. Can anbody help? As always I challenged myself to transcript them but was not able to catch all words right :[[

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDU_Ru-4m8g

Read…… in your mind
Let your body free ……
What’s the matter?
Is it really up to you
Ohhh I know you ain’t saint ………………. people………..
If you tell your ………….. secret
I may tell mine

Hey hey
Gonna get a bit better
Ohhh It’s gonna get a bit better now
Yes it will
Gonna get a bit better
Gonna get a bit better now
Try dancing
Dancing if you win
Well try dancing
Yeah dancing if you win

I wanna do it ……………………………..
………… won’t you dance and come along
Try dancing if you win ………………………………….
Put your head take your body
For a ride Hey hey

Gonna get a bit better
Yes it is
It’s gonna get a bit better now
Ohh yeah
Gonna get a bit better

Ohhh It’s gonna get a bit better now
Try dancing dancing if you win
Why don’t you
Try dancing dancing if you win
Try dancing dancing if you win
Why don’t you
Try dancing dancing if you win
Ohh Try dancing dancing if you win
Yeah Try dancing dancing if you win
Ohhh ohhh
Try dancing dancing if you win
Try dancing ohh dancing if you win
Yeahh Try dancing dancing if you win If you win
Try dancing dancing if you win If you win
Try dancing dancing if you win If you win if you win
Come on
Try dancing now dancing if you win

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYQcXE7xNtc

These lyrics are a bit different from The Rolling Stones' version.


You can't always get what you want,
You can't always get what you want,
You can't always get what you want,

I saw him today at the reception,
Standing there with a glass in his hand.
I knew he would meet this connection,
………………………………………………………….

Said you can't always get what you want,
You can't always get what you want,
Said you can't always get what you want,
But if you try sometimes, you just might find,
You get what you need.
What you need yeah

……………………… go to the demonstration,
To get my fair share of abuse
He wanted me to be an all-night sensation
If we don't he’s gonna blow a 50-amp fuse."
Sing it to me, honey.

You can't always get what you want,
You can't always get what you want,
Said you can't always get what you want,
But if you try sometimes, you just might find,
You get what you need.
What you need yeah

He go to the drugstore near the station,
Some say he gets his free prescription filled.
No one can tell what he really feel



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