If I Ain’t Got You lyrics

[Intro: Brandon Victor Dixon, Maleah Joi Moon]
You remember this song? (No - I do, he knows I do)
Okay, well, I wrote it for you when you were a little girl
Yo, he knows, as soon as he even brings this song up, it is ringing in my head, and I'm eight, or I'm six, or I'm four, and he...
He's my dad, and I got no idea anything is gonna be any different
You used to love it, and I used to love singing it to you
Bet I still love...

[Verse 1: Brandon Victor Dixon]
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

[Pre-Chorus: Brandon Victor Dixon]
Some people think that the physical things
Define what's within
And I've been there before, that life's a bore
It's so full of the superficial

[Chorus: Brandon Victor Dixon]
Some people want it all
But I don't want nothin' at all
If it ain't you, baby
If I ain't got you, baby
Some people want diamond rings
Some just want everything
Everything means nothin'
If I ain't got you
[Interlude: Brandon Victor Dixon]
Coming back to you? Not even a little bit?
Ha, alright, I'ma keep going

[Verse 2: Brandon Victor Dixon, Maleah Joi Moon]
Some people search for a - damn, what is it? - fountain
Fountain - I knew you knew it
That promises forever - oh my God, young - young
Some people need three dozen roses
And that's the only way to prove you love them

[Pre-Chorus: Maleah Joi Moon, Brandon Victor Dixon, Both]
Hand me the world on a silver platter
And what (Hey) good would it be?
With no one to share
No one who truly cares for me

[Chorus: Brandon Victor Dixon, Maleah Joi Moon, Both]
Some people want it all
But I don't want nothin' at all
If it ain't you, baby
If I ain't got you, baby
Some people want diamond rings
Some just want everything
Everything means nothin'
If I ain't got you, you, you
Some people want it all
I don't want nothin' at all
If it ain't you, baby
If I ain't got you, baby
Some people want diamond rings
Some just want everything
Everything means nothin' (Nothin')
If I ain't got you, you, yeah, yeah (Yeah), yeah
[Outro: Brandon Victor Dixon & Maleah Joi Moon, Brandon Victor Dixon, Maleah Joi Moon]
If I ain't got you with me, baby (You remember?)
Hmm, said nothin' in this whole wide world don't mean a thing
If I ain't got you with me, baby (Mmm)