Shawn Mendes - If I Can't Have You Song (Lyrics). HAVE FUN!! LIKE, FAVORITE, AND FOLLOW!! Summary: “If I Can’t Have You” is the upbeat, The 1975-inspired track that marks the beginning of Shawn Mendes' fourth musical era after the May 2018 release of his third studio album, Shawn Mendes. The track marks his highest ranking career debut and first top 3 hit with an opening rank at #2 on Billboard’s Hot 100. In an interview with SiriusXM Hits 1, Shawn summarized the track as …an elevated version of what you know as Shawn Mendes Music. In an interview with Beats 1, Shawn described “If I Can’t Have You” as a “confident pop record” and went on to say that This is the one that consistently every time I play it for myself, or for friends and family, it has just given people ‘that’ smile. Shortly after the song’s release, in an interview with Rolling Stone, Shawn revealed that he originally wrote the song with Dua Lipa in mind. In a later interview with New 102.7, he clarified that he’d never contacted Dua about the song, and that giving her the track was just an idea he had. The song’s lyrics first appeared on Genius on April 26, 2019; the same day Shawn’s manager, Andrew Gertler, teased “some serious surprises” on his Instagram. Shawn first teased the song’s release on May 1, 2019 via his Twitter. “If I Can’t Have You” and its accompanying music video were released at midnight on May 3, 2019. The song’s first live performance was May 4th on Saturday Night Live, where Shawn starred as a musical guest.
LYRICS: [Chorus] I can't write one song that's not about you Can't drink without thinkin' about you Is it too late to tell you that Everything means nothing if I can't have you? [Verse 1] I'm in Toronto and I got this view But I might as well be in a hotel room, yeah It doesn't matter 'cause I'm so consumed Spending all my nights reading texts from you [Pre-Chorus] Oh, I'm good at keeping my distance I know that you're the feeling I'm missing You know that I hate to admit it But everything means nothing if I can't have you [Chorus] I can't write one song that's not about you Can't drink without thinkin' about you Is it too late to tell you that Everything means nothing if I can't have you? I can't write one song that's not about you Can't drink without thinkin' about you Is it too late to tell you that Everything means nothing if I can't have you? [Verse 2] I'm so sorry that my timing's off But I can't move on if we're still gonna talk Is it wrong for me to not want half? I want all of you, all the strings attached [Pre-Chorus] Oh, I'm good at keeping my distance I know that you're the feeling I'm missing You know that I hate to admit it But everything means nothing if I can't have you [Chorus] I can't write one song that's not about you Can't drink without thinkin' about you Is it too late to tell you that Everything means nothing if I can't have you? I can't write one song that's not about you Can't drink without thinking about you Is it too late to tell you that Everything means nothing if I can't have you? [Bridge] I'm trying to move on, forget you, but I hold on Everything means nothing, everything means nothing, babe I'm trying to move on, forget you, but I hold on Everything means nothing if I can't have you, no [Chorus] I can't write one song that's not about you Can't drink without thinkin' about you Is it too late to tell you that Everything means nothing if I can't have you? (Can't have you) I can't write one song that's not about you Can't drink without thinking about you Is it too late to tell you that Everything means nothing if I can't have you?
