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Adele – If It Hadn't Been for Love (2011) | Track profile | Dork

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Adele
Live at the Royal Albert Hall
If It Hadn't Been for Love

TRACK

If It Hadn't Been for Love

Release date: 24th January 2011

From Live at the Royal Albert Hall

About This Track

"If It Hadn't Been for Love" is a track by Adele, from the album Live at the Royal Albert Hall, released 24th January 2011. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 8 articles about Adele.

About the Artist

Adele

Adele

Lyrics

If It Hadn't Been for Love

[Verse 1]

Never would've hitchhiked to Birmingham

If it hadn't been for love

Never would've caught the train to Louisiana

If it hadn't been for love

Never would've run through the blindin' rain

Without one dollar to my name

If it hadn't been

If it hadn't been for love

[Verse 2]

Never would've seen the trouble that I'm in

If it hadn't been for love

Would've been gone like a wayward wind

If it hadn't been for love

Nobody knows it better than me

I wouldn't be wishing I was free

If it hadn't been

If it hadn't been for love

[Chorus]

Four cold walls against my will

At least I know he's lying still

Four cold walls without parole

Lord have mercy on my soul

[Verse 3]

Never would've gone to that side of town

If it hadn't been for love

Never would've took a mind to track him down

If it hadn't been for love

Never would've loaded up a forty-four

And put myself behind a jailhouse door

If it hadn't been

If it hadn't been for love

[Chorus]

Four cold walls against my will

At least I know he's lying still

Four cold walls without parole

Lord have mercy on my soul

[Verse 4]

Never would've hitchhiked to Birmingham

If it hadn't been for love

Never would've caught the train to Louisiana

If it hadn't been for love

Never would've loaded up a .44

Put myself behind a jailhouse door

If it hadn't been

If it hadn't been for love

[Outro]

If it hadn't been

If it hadn't been for love

If it hadn't been

If it hadn't been for love

Lyrics provided by LRCLIB

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Track details

From Live at the Royal Albert Hall

2011

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Album

Live at the Royal Albert Hall

Release year

2011

—One and Only (Live at the Royal Albert Hall)
—I Can't Make You Love Me (Live at the Royal Albert Hall)
—Right as Rain (Live at the Royal Albert Hall)
—If It Hadn't Been for Love

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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer: Chris Stapleton, Mike Henderson
Producer: Rodaidh McDonald