Original Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston version
| Kim Weston: | One can have a dream, baby |
| Marvin Gaye: | Two can make that dream so real |
| Kim Weston: | One can talk about being in love |
| Marvin Gaye: | Two can say how it really feels |
| Kim Weston: | One can wish upon a star |
| Marvin Gaye: | Two can make that wish come true, yeah |
| Kim Weston: | One can stand alone in the dark |
| Marvin Gaye: | Two can make the light shine through |
| Weston and Gaye: | It takes two, baby, it takes two, baby |
| Me and you, it just take two | |
| It takes two, baby, it takes two, baby | |
| To make a dream come true, it just take two | |
| Kim Weston: | One can have a broken heart, living in misery |
| Marvin Gaye: | Two can really ease the pain like a perfect remedy |
| Kim Weston: | One can be alone in the far, like an island he's all alone |
| Marvin Gaye: | Two can make just any place seem just like being home |
| Weston and Gaye: | It takes two, baby, it takes two, baby |
| Me and you, it just take two | |
| It takes two, baby, it takes two, baby | |
| To make a dream come true, it just take two | |
| Weston and Gaye: | Hoo hoo-hoo, hoo hoo-hoo-hoo, hoo hoo-hoo hoo |
| Hoo hoo | |
| It just take two, it just take two | |
| Kim Weston: | Ooh, one can go out to a movie, looking for a special treat |
| Marvin Gaye: | Two can make that single movie something really kind of sweet |
| Kim Weston: | Yeah, one can take a walk in the moonlight, thinking that it's really nice |
| Marvin Gaye: | A-but two walking a-hand in hand is like adding just a pinch of spice |
| Weston and Gaye: | Yeah, it takes two, baby, it takes two, baby |
| Me and you, it just take two | |
| It takes two, baby, it takes two, baby | |
| To make a dream come true, it just take two |
IT TAKES TWO is a song written by William "Mickey" Stevenson and Sylvia Moy and originally released by Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston as a single in 1966. The above lyrics are for the original Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston version of IT TAKES TWO as released in 1966.
Bruce Springsteen covered Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston's IT TAKES TWO a few times during some off-tour performances between 2002 and 2009. See the live 19 Dec 2004 (early show) version for more details. Starting from 1999, Springsteen also sometimes used a snippet of the song at the end of TWO HEARTS. See the live 01 Jul 2000 version of TWO HEARTS for an example.
List of available versions of IT TAKES TWO on this website:
IT TAKES TWO [Live 19 Dec 2004 (late show) version]