Released: October 19, 1970
Songwriter: Bob Dylan
Producer: Bob Johnston
[Verse 1]
If not for you
Babe, I couldn’t find the door
Couldn’t even see the floor
I’d be sad and blue
If not for you
[Verse 2]
If not for you
Babe, I’d lay awake all night
Wait for the morning light
To shine in through
But it would not be new
If not for you
[Chorus]
If not for you, my sky would fall
Rain would gather too
Without your love, I’d be nowhere at all
I’d be lost if not for you
And you know it’s true
[Chorus]
If not for you, my sky would fall
Rain would gather too
Without your love, I’d be nowhere at all
Oh, what would I do
If not for you
[Verse 3]
If not for you
Winter would have no spring
Couldn’t hear the robin sing
I just wouldn’t have a clue
Anyway it wouldn’t ring true
If not for you
If not for you
If not for you
If not for you
If not for you
If not for you
Babe, I couldn’t find the door
Couldn’t even see the floor
I’d be sad and blue
If not for you
[Verse 2]
If not for you
Babe, I’d lay awake all night
Wait for the morning light
To shine in through
But it would not be new
If not for you
[Chorus]
If not for you, my sky would fall
Rain would gather too
Without your love, I’d be nowhere at all
I’d be lost if not for you
And you know it’s true
[Chorus]
If not for you, my sky would fall
Rain would gather too
Without your love, I’d be nowhere at all
Oh, what would I do
If not for you
[Verse 3]
If not for you
Winter would have no spring
Couldn’t hear the robin sing
I just wouldn’t have a clue
Anyway it wouldn’t ring true
If not for you
If not for you
If not for you
If not for you
If not for you
The Essential Bob Dylan
- Subterranean Homesick Blues
- Positively 4th Street
- Lay Lady Lay
- If Not for You
- Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)
- I Shall Be Released
- You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere
- Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
- Jokerman
- Dark Eyes
- Silvio
- Everything Is Broken
- Not Dark Yet
- Things Have Changed
- Thunder on the Mountain
- Beyond Here Lies Nothin’
- Tangled Up in Blue
- I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
- It Ain’t Me Babe
- Shelter from the Storm
- Like a Rolling Stone
- The Times They Are A-Changin’
- Maggie’s Farm
- It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
- Blowin’ in the Wind
- Make You Feel My Love
- Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
- Hurricane
- Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
- All Along the Watchtower
- Blind Willie McTell
- Mississippi
- Gotta Serve Somebody
- Just Like a Woman
- Forever Young (Demo)
- Murder Most Foul
- Blowin’ in the Wind
- The Times They Are A-Changin’
- All Along the Watchtower
- Like a Rolling Stone
- Make You Feel My Love
- Hurricane
- Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
- Mr. Tambourine Man
- A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
- Subterranean Homesick Blues
- Desolation Row
- Tangled Up in Blue
- Masters of War
- Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
- It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
- Girl from the North Country
- Tempest
- It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
- Ballad of a Thin Man
- Visions of Johanna
- I Contain Multitudes
- To Fall in Love with You
- Shelter from the Storm