IF I AIN'T GOT YOU
ALICIA KEYS & JOHN MAYER
SONGWRITERS: ALICIA KEYS & JOHN MAYER
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: THE DIARY OF ALICIA KEYS
LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS
GENRE: R & B
YEAR: 2003
Alicia Augello Cook(born January 25, 1981),
known professionally as Alicia Keys, is an American singer, songwriter and
actress. A classically-trained pianist, Keys began composing songs by age 12
and was signed at 15 years old by Columbia Records.
After disputes with the label, she signed with Arista Records and later released her debut album, Songs in A Minor, with J Records in 2001.
The album was critically and commercially successful, producing her first Billboard Hot 100 number-one single "Fallin'"
and selling over 12 million copies worldwide. The album earned Keys five Grammy Awards in 2002. Her second album, The Diary of
Alicia Keys (2003), was also a critical and
commercial success, spawning successful singles "You Don't
Know My Name", "If I Ain't Got You",
and "Diary",
and selling eight million copies worldwide. The album garnered her an
additional four Grammy Awards. Her duet "My Boo"
with Usher became her
second number-one single in 2004. Keys released her first live album, Unplugged (2005), and became the first woman to have an MTV Unplugged album debut at number one. Her third album, As I Am(2007),
produced the Hot 100 number-one single "No One",
selling seven million copies worldwide and earning an additional three Grammy
Awards. In 2007, Keys made her film debut in the action-thriller film Smokin' Aces. She
released the theme song to the James Bond film Quantum of Solace "Another Way to Die"
with Jack White.
Her fourth album, The Element
of Freedom(2009), became her first
chart-topping album in the United Kingdom, and sold four million copies
worldwide. Keys also collaborated with Jay-Z on "Empire State
of Mind" (2009), which became her fourth
number-one single in the United States and won the Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration.
The Element of Freedom spawned the Billboard Hot 100 charting singles Doesn't Mean
Anything, Try Sleeping
with a Broken Heart, "Un-Thinkable
(I'm Ready)" and "Empire State of Mind (Part II) Broken Down".
Her fifth album Girl on Fire (2012) was her fifth Billboard 200 topping album, spawning the successful title track,
and won the Grammy Award
for Best R&B Album. In 2013, VH1
Storytellers was released as her second live
album. Her sixth studio album, Here(2016),
became her seventh US R&B/Hip-Hop chart-topping album. Her seventh studio album, Alicia(2020)
spawned the singles "Show Me Love"
and "Underdog".
Keys has sold over 90 million records
worldwide, making her one of the world's
best-selling music artists and she was
named by Billboard the top R&B artist of the 2000s decade. She has received numerous accolades in her career, including 15 competitive Grammy Awards, 17 NAACP Image Awards, 12 ASCAP Awards, and an
award from the Songwriters
Hall of Fame and National Music Publishers Association.
She placed tenth on their list of Top 50 R&B/Hip-Hop
Artists of the Past 25 Years. VH1 included her on
their 100 Greatest Artists of All Time and 100 Greatest Women in Music lists,
while Time has named her
in their 100 list of most influential people in 2005 and 2017. Keys is also acclaimed for her humanitarian work,
philanthropy and activism, e.g. being awarded Ambassador of
Conscience by Amnesty
International; she co-founded and serves as
the Global Ambassador of the nonprofit HIV/AIDS-fighting
organization Keep a Child Alive.
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 to prove you love them
Hand me the world on
a silver platter
And what good would it be?
And no one to share
With no one who truly be 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
Gravity is working
against me
And gravity wants to bring me down
Oh, I'll never know what makes this man
With all the love that his heart can stand
Dream of ways to throw it all away
Oh, gravity is
working against me
And gravity wants to bring me down
Oh, twice as much ain't twice as good
And can't sustain like a one half could
It's wanting more that's gonna send me to my knees
Just keep me where
the light is
Just keep me where the light is
Just keep me where the light is
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.
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