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
Some people need three dozen roses
And that's the only way you prove you love them
Listen baby, hand me the world on a silver platter
And what good would it be
(I don't know, I don't know)
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
So nothing in this whole wide world don't mean a thing
If I ain't got you with me baby, yeah

Thank you
Woo...thank you so much
Alright

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Thanks to MarchingYJ06, wsuqi85, bluewhalecrymes for correcting these lyrics.

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: "Unplugged" (2005)

How Come You Don't Call Me

If I Was Your Woman

If I Ain't Got You

Every Little Bit Hurts

Streets Of New York (City Life)

Wild Horses

Diary

You Don't Know My Name

Stolen Moments

Fallin'

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"If I Ain't Got You" lyrics

Alicia Keys Lyrics