Lyrics to
If I Love You

This version of If I Love You was released by Joe Cocker in 1975.

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If I love you
Will you understand
When I fall ya’
Will you go
Will you leave me
When I let you down
Tell me darlin’
Let me know

Love will bring you joy
Love will ease your pain
It’s so helpful
An it’s so kind
But when it’s gone
I feel like dyin’
Tell me darlin’
What’s on your mind

If I lose you
I will understand
But my heart it’ll never heal
Because I love you
And I need to know
Tell me darlin’
What you feel

If I love you
Will you understand
When I fall you
Will you go

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About Lyrics and If I Love You by Joe Cocker

When you decide to study the lyrics to If I Love You, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1975 song by Joe Cocker. Some of the lyrics to If I Love You have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Joe Cocker and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to If I Love You if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to If I Love You" means the words set to the music of If I Love You, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Joe Cocker. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to If I Love You and the lyrics to If I Love You are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Joe Cocker who came here looking just for the lyrics to If I Love You, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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