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Mr. Big - To Be With You

To Be with You is a song by the American hard rock band Mr. Big. It appears on the album Lean into It.

The song charted in 20 plus countries, many of them at number one, such as on the United States Billboard Hot 100. It also reached a peak of number three in the UK.

"To Be With You" is about a man who has his eye on a woman who has recently experienced a broken heart from a previous relationship.

The song was written and composed by Eric Martin during his teen years. Paul contributed to its melodic arrangements later on. Writing credit is also given to David Grahame, a songwriter working for the label at the time (though exactly what contributions each of the three men made to the song is unclear).

While in Paul's apartment at Yucca Street in L.A., Eric and Paul were laying out their compositions. Eric had a ballad called "To Be With You". Paul had his psychedelic rock song called "Green Tinted Sixties Mind". Both felt the two songs were strong enough to be included in their upcoming album, despite it being purely rock; and true enough, these songs remained throughout the course of their career as a group and as solo artists.

Music video

The video features the band performing in a room. The video changes from black & white to color around the halfway mark.

Cover versions

Irish pop group Westlife performed the song during the acoustic session of their 2003 Greatest Hits Tour, and it was subsequently included on their Turnaround album later that year.

Australian male vocal group Human Nature included a cover of the song in their 2004 Walk the Tightrope studio album. Their interpretation was somewhat more pop/R&B than the original.

Old Man Gloom performed an acoustic cover of the song titled under the guise of "Gratuitous Bonus Track Made By Sensible Musicians Doing Questionable Things" on their 2003 EP Christmas Eve I and II + 6.

Andrew Spencer has also made dance remixes of the song in late 2007, early 2008.

The pop-punk band Allister and Japanese "bilingual melodic punk band" Nicotine have also recorded covers of the song.

The song is also featured in the first act of Rock of Ages.

American musician David Cook and his band The Anthemic first covered this song in concert at the Orlando Food and Wine Festival on March 31, 2012.

The song was covered by Adhir Kalyan in the episode The Five Things in the sitcom Rules of Engagement to attempt to seduce a woman, but was picked as a prank by David Spade.

The song was sampled and remixed by Styles & Complete, the song is a Dubstep (genre) remix.

The lyrics:

Hold on little girl

Show me what he's doone to you

Stand up little girl

A broken heart can't be that bad

When it's through, it's through

Fate will twist the both of you

So come on baby come on over

Let me be the one to show you

I'm the one who wants to be with you

Deep inside I hope you feel it too

Waited on a line of greens and blues

Just to be the next to be with you

Build up your confidence

So you can be on top for once

wake up who cares about

Little boys that talk too much

I seen it all go down

Your game of love was all rained out

So come on baby, come on over

Let me be the one to hold you

[Chorus]

Why be alone when we can be together baby

You can make my life worthwhile

And I can make you start to smile