Take That is an English pop group formed in Manchester in 1990. The group c… Read Full Bio ↴Take That is an English pop group formed in Manchester in 1990. The group currently consists of Gary Barlow, Howard Donald and Mark Owen. The original line-up also featured Jason Orange and Robbie Williams. Barlow is the group's lead singer and primary songwriter, with Owen and Williams initially providing backing vocals and Donald and Orange serving primarily as dancers.

The group have had 28 top-40 singles and 17 top-5 singles on the UK Singles Chart, 12 of which have reached number one, including "Back for Good", "Never Forget", "Patience" and "Greatest Day". They have also had eight number-one albums on the UK Albums Chart. Internationally, the band have had 56 number one singles and 39 number-one albums. They have received eight Brit Awards—winning for Best British Group and Best British Live Act. In 2012 they received an Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music. According to the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), Take That has been certified for 14 million albums and 11.4 million singles in the UK.

Williams left the band in 1995 while the four remaining members completed their world tour and released a final single before splitting up in 1996. After filming a 2005 Take That: For the Record about the group and releasing a new greatest hits album, a four-piece Take That without Williams officially announced a 2006 reunion tour around the UK, entitled The Ultimate Tour. On 9 May 2006, it was announced that the group were set to record new material together once again; their fourth studio album, Beautiful World, was released in 2006 and was followed up with The Circus, in 2008. The group achieved new success as a four-piece, scoring a string of chart hits across the UK and Europe while selling over 45 million records worldwide. Williams rejoined Take That in 2010 for the band's sixth studio album, Progress. Released on 15 November of that year, it was the first album of new material to feature Take That's original line-up since their 1995 album, Nobody Else. It became the fastest-selling album of the 21st century and the second fastest-selling album in British history.

In 2014, the band recorded a seventh studio album, this time as a trio without Williams and Orange. The album, titled III, was released in November 2014 and became the band's seventh number one. It was preceded by the single "These Days", which became the band's 12th number one single in the UK.

In 2011, Take That set the new record for the fastest-selling tour of all time in the UK with Progress Live, beating the previous record set by their Circus Live Tour in 2009. At the 2011 Brit Awards they won Best British Group. In 2012, Forbes named them the fifth highest-earning music stars in the world. The group performed at the London 2012 Olympic Games closing ceremony, playing "Rule the World" while the Olympic Flame was extinguished. In the same year, the Official Charts Company revealed the biggest-selling singles artists in British music chart history with Take That currently placed at 15th overall, making them the most successful boy band in UK chart history. Four of their albums are listed in the best-selling albums of the millennium, with three of them among the 60 best-selling albums in UK chart history.

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Studio albums
Take That and Party (1992)
Everything Changes (1993)
Nobody Else (1995)
Beautiful World (2006)
The Circus (2008)
Progress (2010)
Progressed (2011)
III (2014)
Wonderland (2017)
This Life (2023)

Don't Take Your Love
Take That Lyrics

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Now when I've just begun to need you
Trying to throw everything away
No need to tell me, know you need time
Time for me to make you see you're always mine
Don't take your love away from me
Don't take your love away from me
Oh time after time when I thought we were close
Don't take your love away from me

Everyone is telling me to leave you
I'd love to know what you're doing now
I'm tempted to call round i'm tempted to phone
Just for you and me girl to be on our own

Don't take your love away from me
Don't take your love away from me, baby
Don't take your love away from me
Don't take your love away from me
Oh time after time when I thought we were close
Don't take your love away from me

Every time I'm lonely and I need you
Can I just call round and talk alone
I'm losing my will to live and people I know are telling me I've lost you girl
And there's no hope, so please

Don't take your love away from me
Don't take your love away from me

Don't take your love away from me
Don't take your love away from me

Overall Meaning

The lyrics to Take That's "Don't Take Your Love" convey a sense of desperation and plea for a loved one not to leave. The opening lines, "When I've just begun to need you / Trying to throw everything away" suggest that the singer may have tried to push the relationship away, only to realize that they truly need the other person. The line "know you need time / Time for me to make you see you're always mine" speaks to the singer's desire to convince their partner that they belong together.

The chorus of the song repeats the plea "Don't take your love away from me" with the addition of "oh time after time when I thought we were close." This gives the sense that the relationship has been tumultuous and that the two have been close to breaking up before. The second verse suggests that others are telling the singer to leave the relationship, but they are still tempted to call and try to keep the two of them together.

Overall, the song is a plea for a loved one to stay and a confession that the singer cannot imagine life without them. It conveys a raw emotion that many people can likely relate to.

Line by Line Meaning

Now when I've just begun to need you
I have come to a point where I need you the most.

Trying to throw everything away
I feel like throwing everything away in despair.

No need to tell me, know you need time
I understand that you need time, you don't have to explain it to me.

Time for me to make you see you're always mine
I need to make you realize that you're always mine.

Don't take your love away from me
Please don't take your love away from me.

Oh time after time when I thought we were close
There were times when I thought we were getting closer.

Everyone is telling me to leave you
Everyone is advising me to leave you.

I'd love to know what you're doing now
I am curious to know what you are doing now.

I'm tempted to call round i'm tempted to phone
I am tempted to call and talk to you.

Just for you and me girl to be on our own
I want to spend some alone time with you, just you and me.

Don't take your love away from me, baby
Please don't take your love away from me, my baby.

Every time I'm lonely and I need you
Whenever I feel lonely and need you,

Can I just call round and talk alone
Can I just call you, and have a private conversation?

I'm losing my will to live and people I know are telling me I've lost you girl
I am losing my hope in life, and people around me are telling me that I have lost you.

And there's no hope, so please
There seems to be no hope, so please

Don't take your love away from me
Please don't take your love away from me.