Sister Sadie contemplate "If I Don't Have You"
The song follows the bluegrass sextet's release of a pair of covers — a bluegrassy version of Gabe Dixon's "All Will Be Well" and the '90s country flavored "Make Me Stay or Make Me Go."
"I don't write too many love songs," said lead singer, Dani Flowers. "Most of the songs in my catalogue are admittedly pretty depressing. But 'If I Don't Have You' is just that — a love song about loving someone so much that everything you've ever wanted or hoped to accomplish now pales in comparison to the need you have to be with that person." Cast almost as a conversation between Flowers' vocal and co-writer Deanie Richardson's fiddle, the track includes the chorus:
I could climb the highest mountain
Make my dollars by the thousands
I could have it all and then some
But I'd still be sad and lonesome
If I don't have you to hold on to
When the nights are long, when the day is through
Everything I have, or anything I'll do
Don't mean half as much if I don't have you."
"Dani came to me with this sweet melody and the first two lines of this song," Richardson said. "We finished it that day. This is my favorite kind of love song: simple melody and simple lyrics. It doesn't get much better than Dani's angelic voice singing about how going through life and experiencing the most amazing things wouldn't mean half as much 'If I Don't Have You.'"
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