If I Can’t Have You
Produced by Rob Cavallo
Mixed by Chris Lord-Alge
Special version adapted from the album Hang Cool Teddy Bear
Hot Patootie
Recorded live on July 16, 2010 at PNC Bank Arts Center, Holmdel, New Jersey
Performed by Meat Loaf and The Neverland Express
Paul Crook and Randy Flowers: Guitar
Danny Miranda: Bass
Justin Avery: Keyboards
John Miceli: Drums
Dave Luther: Saxophone, Keyboards
Patti Russo and CC Coletti: Backing Vocals
Don’t Get Me Goin’
Previously unreleased
Label
Roadrunner Records/Loud & Proud
Format
MP3
Year
2010
Notes
Digital EP
If I Can’t Have You (edit)
Boy:
To say it’s love would be too simple, too obvious
It’s more like a calling, a vocation
Something I was put on this earth to do
Now I’m shooting with the stars and I’m flying with the angels
And my heartbeat is a symphony the closer I get to you
I never saw you comin’ till you came, and here you are
I never thought someone would ever dare to come this far
You’re up for the resistance, and I’m strong in my persistence
And I’ve never known a remedy like ours
If I can’t have you
If I can’t have you
I would be a river dried up into dust
I would be imprisoned for ever having loved
If I can’t have you—I don’t wanna be me
Your life is like an anchor that puts me in my place
No, you won’t let me sink when I’m off losin’ my way
Thank God for your virtue and the wisdom in your eye
‘Cause somehow you get through on all that crazy in my mind
If I can’t have you
If I can’t have you
I would be a river dried up into dust
I would be imprisoned for ever having loved
If I can’t have you—I don’t wanna be me
I don’t wanna be me
Girl:
Why did it take you so long to finally see
That we had a love that you don’t find easily?
You broke my heart and the price to pay for that
Is you’ll have to live the misery of losing what you had
Boy:If I can’t have you....
Boy:
My words have come too late Girl:
I’ve already turned that page
Don’t you look at me that way
Cause you’ll pull me back and that’s the part I hate
Boy:
I’ll stay trapped inside my hell
Where it’s so hot that my walls melt Girl:
I can hear a promise in every lie you said you’d never tell
(if I can’t have you) …
(if I can’t have you) …
Boy:I need you in my life Girl:I can’t let go Boy:Why don’t you stay with me tonight? Girl:I feel alone Boy:Turn off all the lights Girl:Take me home
(if I can’t have you) …
Boy:
Then I would be a river dried up into dust
I would be imprisoned for ever having loved
If I can’t have you I don’t wanna be me
I don’t wanna be me
To say it’s love would be too simple....
Written by Kara DioGuardi / Raine Maida / Paul Freeman Sunshine Terrace Music / Bug Music (BMI) / Sony/ATV Tunes LLC (ASCAP) o.b.o. Sony Music Publishing Canada / Under Zenith Music Inc. (SOCAN) / WB Music Corp. (ASCAP) and Sad Eyes Publishing (ASCAP) All rights on behalf of itself and Sad Eyes Publishing admin. by WB Music Corp.
Don’t Get Me Goin’
Well, I see you lookin’ out now across the room
I know just what you’re thinkin’ ‘cause I thought that too
You’re gettin’ too close, you’re steppin’ on my toes
You’re thinkin’ that you will and I’m thinkin’ that you won’t
You’re tryin to get you some that don’t belong to you
Whatever you do—don’t
You’re sittin’ in a corner on a saturday night
You got your baby on your left and maybe on your right
You’re never ever happy, never satisfied
Now you get to stick your fingers in another cherry pie
Keep your hands to yourself, this one’s mine
Whatever you do—don’t
Don’t even think it
Don’t even try
Don’t make me do it—baby, I ain’t lyin’
I came here to dance
I didn’t come to fight
You’re messin’ with my woman—oh, you’re messin’ with my life
Before [we] settle in a parking lot
You better stop and get gettin’ into what I got
You’re messin’ with my mean, you’re heatin’ up my hot
Don’t be stupid startin’ somethin’ you can’t stop
I’m only gonna tell it to you one more time
Whatever you do—don’t
Don’t even think it
Don’t even try
Don’t make me do it—baby, I ain’t lyin
I came here to dance
I didn’t come to fight
You’re messin’ with my woman—oh, you’re messin with my life....
Don’t even think it
Don’t even try
Don’t make me do it—baby, I ain’t lyin’
I came here to dance
I didn’t come to fight
You’re messin’ with my woman—oh, you’re messin’ with my life
Before [we] settle in a parking lot
You better stop and get gettin’ into what I got
You’re messin’ with my mean, you’re heatin’ up my hot
Don’t be stupid startin’ somethin’ you can’t stop
I’m only gonna tell it to you one more time
Whatever you do—don’t
Don’t even think it
Don’t even try
Don’t make me do it—baby, I ain’t lyin
I came here to dance
I didn’t come to fight
You’re messin’ with my woman—oh, you’re messin with my life
You’re messin with my life (don’t, don’t, don’t)
You’re messin with my life (don’t, don’t, don’t)
Hahaha, oh…
Don’t even think it
Don’t even try
Don’t make me do it—baby, I ain’t lyin’
I came here to dance
I didn’t come to fight
You’re messin’ with my woman—now you’re messin’ with my life
Before [we] settle in a parking lot
You better stop and get gettin’ into what I got
You’re messin’ with my mean, you’re heatin’ up my hot
Don’t be stupid startin’ somethin’ you can’t stop
I’m only gonna tell it to you one more time
Whatever you do—don’t....