Alicia Keys - If I Ain't Got You Lyrics

Alicia Keys Lyrics

"If I Ain't Got You"

Some people live for the fortune
Some people live just for the fame
Some people live for the power, yeah
Some people live just to play the game

Some people think that the physical things
Define what's within
And I've been there before but that life's a bore
So full of the superficial

Some people want it all
But I don't want nothing at all
If it ain't you, baby
If I ain't got you, baby
Some people want diamond rings
Some just want everything
But everything means nothing
If I ain't got you, yeah

Some people search for a fountain
That promises forever young (Ya know)
Some people need three dozen roses
And that's the only way to prove you love them

Hand me the world on a silver platter
And what good would it be?
With no one to share
With no one who truly cares for me

Some people want it all
But I don't want nothing at all
If it ain't you, baby
If I ain't got you, baby
Some people want diamond rings
Some just want everything
But everything means nothing
If I ain't got you, you, you
Some people want it all
But I don't want nothing at all
If it ain't you, baby
If I ain't got you, baby
Some people want diamond rings
Some just want everything
But everything means nothing
If I ain't got you, yeah

If I ain't got you with me, baby
Ooh, ooh
Said nothing in this whole wide world don't mean a thing
If I ain't got you with me, baby

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Writer(s): Alicia J. Augello-cook

This song was inspired by the death of Aaliyah in 2001 and the September 11 attacks. Alicia Keys explained, "The song idea came together right after Aaliyah passed away. It was such a sad time and no one wanted to believe it. It just made everything crystal clear to me—what matters, and what doesn't."

Alicia Keys is shown on the cover of this single in a similar manner as Kiki de Montparnasse on Man Ray's picture "Ingre's Violin" from 1924.

"If I Ain't Got You" was released in February 2004, topped the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs in May and peaked at number 4 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in July. The song won for "Best Female R&B Vocal Performance" at the 2005 Grammy Awards.

There are three other versions of this song issued as bonus tracks on the international release of "The Diary of Alicia Keys" album: a remix featuring Usher, a Kanye West Radio Mix, and a Spanish version featuring Arturo Sandoval.

album: "The Diary Of Alicia Keys" (2003)

Alicia Keys - The Diary Of Alicia Keys album cover

Harlem's Nocturne

Karma

Heartburn

If I Was Your Woman / Walk On By

You Don't Know My Name

When You Really Love Someone

Feeling U, Feeling Me (Interlude)

Slow Down

Samsonite Man

Nobody Not Really (Interlude)

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