With elements of 80’s synth-pop and modern dance music, “If I Don’t Have You” is an upbeat yet haunting track about the difficulty of letting go of an ex. With memorable lines like “I sit and wait for you at a table set for two” and “I know I sound desperate but I’m crazy and I can’t forget about you”, the track brilliantly captures that post-breakup feeling without falling into despair.
On the meaning behind the song, J-LINE describes it as “seeing your ex as an ethereal being/ghost that haunts you every minute of your life. As you walk downtown, as you sleep, when you feel the summer breeze on your face. Every second brings back a memory until you get to such a fragile emotional space you’re someone who’s ‘haunted’. It’s about that desperate attempt to reconcile, ignore all the issues in the relationship and plead with your ex to ‘come back’ to you.”
