If I Don't Have You
(Gary Baker/Wayne Perry/Timmy Allen)
Produced by Timmy Allen and Larry "Rock" Campbell for Zomba Recording Corporation
Mixed by Nigel Green at Battery Studios, NYC Assistant engineers: Daniel Wierup and Sharon Kearney
Recorded by Chris Trevett at Battery Studios, NYC and Tim Donovan at Parc Studios, Orlando
String Arrangement by Jimmy Biondolillo
Conductor: Jimmy Biondolillo
Violin Concert Master: Gerald Tarack Productions Copiest: Mark Suozzo
Violins: Isadora Kohon-Teran, Tony Posk, Peter Dimitriades, Harold Kohon, Joseph Diamante, Alice Poulson, Marilyn Wright, Kathryn Kienke, Winterton Garvey, Matthew Raimondi
Viola: Susan Pray, Julien C. Barber, Alfred V, Brown, Juliet Haffner Cello: Seymour Barab, Susan Poliacik, Kermit Moore • Zomba Enterprises Inc./RHO Publishing (adm. by Zomba Enterprises Inc.) (ASCAP)
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Everyday girl I wake up and pray
That you'll come back home
And don't take to long
'Cause since you've been gone
Everything's gone a bit wrong
I wish you were here
Holding me near
[Pre-Chorus 1]
You know I'd go out of my mind
If you ever left my love behind
So I'm beggin' you please
(So I'm beggin', beggin' you please)
Bring your sweet love back to me
(Please come back to me)
[Chorus]
If I don't have you
(Don't have you)
To hold on to
(To hold on to)
I can't go on
in This world alone
Baby, it's true
(Baby, it's true)
(If I don't have you)
If you said goodbye
(You said goodbye)
Girl, I would die
(Girl, I would die)
I'm a star with no light
A day with no night
If I don't have you
[Verse 2]
Late at night
I reach to hold you tight
But you're not there
(You're just not there, baby)
I know you still care
(I know you still care)
And oh, how I miss your soft and love, lovely kiss
You'd give to me (To me)
So tenderly
[Pre-Chorus 2]
We used to feel
Time would stand still
When I see you
Baby it will
So hurry home
(So hurry, come home to me)
You know your man needs you so
(Oh girl, can't you see)
Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh
[Chorus]
If I don't have you
(Don't have you)
To hold on to
(To hold on to)
I can't go on
in This world alone
Baby, it's true
(Baby, it's true)
(If I don't have you)
If you said goodbye
(You said goodbye)
Girl, I would die
(Girl, I would die)
I'm a star with no light
A day with no night
If I don't have you
[Chorus]
If I don't have you
(Don't have you)
[Nick] If I don’t have you, don’t know what
To hold on to
(To hold on to)
[AJ] I just wanna hold you
I can't go on
[Nick] Can’t go on
in This world alone
Baby, it's true
(Baby, it's true)
(If I don't have you)
[AJ] Baby, baby
If you said goodbye
(You said goodbye)
[Nick] If I said goodbye, I would die
Girl, I would die
(Girl, I would die)
[AJ] I’ll die if I don’t have you
I'm a star with no light
[AJ] No light
A day with no night
If I don't have you
[Chorus]
You know I’ll go crazy without you
If I don't have you
(Don't have you)
[Nick] If I don’t have you, don’t know what
To hold on to
(To hold on to)
[AJ] I just wanna hold you
I can't go on
[Nick] Can’t go on
In this world alone
[AJ] In this world alone
Baby, it's true
(Baby, it's true)
(If I don't have you)
If you said goodbye
(You said goodbye)
[Nick] If I said goodbye, I would die
Girl, I would die
(Girl, I would die)
[AJ] Girl, I know I would die
[Outro]
I'm a star with no light
A day with no night
If I don't have you
