Line #40 IfICantHaveYou/Music


1	* Interestingly enough, the well-known song by Music/TheBeeGees[=/=]Yvonne Elliman that shares this trope's title has this trope subverted. If she couldn't have him, she wouldn't stop him from pursuing others instead- but she'd keep ''herself'' from pursuing relationships with others instead.
2	-->For dreams that never will come true
3	-->Am I strong enough to see it through
4	-->Go crazy is what I will do
5	-->If I can't have you
6	-->I don't want nobody baby
7	-->If I can't have you, uh-huh!
8	** Tony [=DiBart's=] 'The Real Thing' uses this trope as song lyrics in much the same way.
9	* Music/DreamTheater's concept album ''Metropolis Part II: Scenes from a Memory'' has this as an important part of the main plot. [[spoiler: It's how Victoria died.]]
10	* The Music/{{Megadeth}} song "Loved to Deth": "If I can't have you, then no one will/And since I won't, I'll have to kill..."
11	* "Love Me Back" by Sunrise Skater Kids about a man who becomes increasingly obsessed with a girl already in a relationship, and eventually resorts to constantly stalking her, despite having a restraining order put on him:
12	-->You're the one for me
13	-->[[MurderTheHypotenuse I'll kill anyone who gets in my way]]
14	-->[[LoonyFan We all know I'm your biggest fan]]
15	-->If I can't have you then no one can
16	* The titular song from the Franchise/JamesBond film ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough''. "''If we can't have it all, then nobody will''..."
17	* Music/TheBeatles song ''Run For Your Life'' written by John Lennon: "I'd rather see you dead little girl, than to be with another man". It's actually a pretty upbeat country-rock song.
18	** Those lyrics actually come from Elvis's "Baby, Let's Play House," which is also an upbeat country-rock song.
19	* The song "Turn It On" by Music/FranzFerdinand invokes this trope by name.
20	** There's a dub version of this song who is named "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin If I Can't Have You Then Nobody Can]]."
21	* Music/SonataArctica's song ''Don't Say A Word'' is about a man who kills his wife/girlfriend after she leaves him.
22	* ''Always'' by Saliva is about a man who shoots and murders his girlfriend over leaving him (or cheating on him, not sure which).
23	* A common theme in Music/{{Eminem}}'s works:
24	** "Kim" is probably the most notorious, with Eminem ''screaming'' about murdering his ex.
25	** Also implied in "Stan"; after Slim Shady doesn't return his calls or letters, [[LoonyFan Stan]] snaps and kills himself, his girlfriend, and his unborn child.
26	** "Space Bound" combines it with MurderSuicide: when the narrator's lover announces she's leaving him for another man, he crosses the DespairEventHorizon and kills her with a NeckSnap before blowing his own brains out.
27	* Tom Jones' "Delilah", in which a man catches his girlfriend cheating. When he confronts her, she ''laughs at him''. So in a fit of rage, he fatally stabs her, and pleads for her to forgive him. [[LyricalDissonance It's quite catchy]].
28	* ''Music/EvilliousChronicles'': "The Tailor of Enbizaka" sung by the Music/{{Vocaloid}} Megurine Luka has her pulling one of these when her lover is seen with at least three other women. The twist is that [[spoiler:her "lover" doesn't even know her, and the other women were his family.]]
29	* Another Luka song, "Love Disease" by madaco, heavily implies that she murders her love interest at the very end, after having [[MurderTheHypotenuse murdered the hypotenuse]] only to have said interest try to get away from her.
30	* "The Phantom Opera Ghost" by Music/IcedEarth.
31	* "Siberian Kiss" by Glassjaw
32	-->I've watched you whore yourself for one more thing\
33	Why don't you sell yourself for one more?\
34	There's always one more thing\
35	Why don't you sell yourself\
36	'''''If I can't have you, NO ONE WILL!!!'''''
37	* "Goodnight Socialite" by Music/TheBrobecks includes this trope in the chorus.
38	* "Pick up the Phone" by Falling in Reverse, which is about an [[DomesticAbuse abusive relationship]] from the perspective of the jealous boyfriend, features the line "I'll be damned if I see you with some other man; If I cannot have you then nobody can".
39	* "[[http://www.jamendo.com/en/track/819846 Die With Me]]" by Obsidian Shell has two refrains, one starting with "die with me or fight for me," the other "mine. only mine." -- stock lyrics in this case sounds [[MadnessMantra appropriate]].
40	* In the "PleaseDontLeaveMe" music video when her boyfriend tries to leave her ''Music/{{Pink}}'' exhibits SanitySlippage and [[AxCrazy chases after her boyfriend with an axe]].
41	* "Tigerlily" by Music/LaRoux:
42	-->[[StalkerWithACrush Lurking in the dark, there's someone who breathes you night and day]]\
43	There's a friend who wants so much more\
44	And if they can't have you, they'll never let you walk away...
45	* The Music/BarenakedLadies song "Straw Hat and Old Dirty Hank" is an [[LyricalDissonance intensely upbeat]] song about the devotion a farmer has to a lady who is special to him. He's actually a stalker, the lady is a singer, and he shows up at her house bearing "flowers and a twenty-two with shells."
46	* "The Last Mistake" by Assemblage 23. "If I can't have you, then nobody can".
47	* "Henry Lee" by Music/NickCave and Music/PJHarvey: "Lie there, lie there, little Henry Lee, 'til the flesh drops from your bones. For the girl you have in that merry green land can wait forever for you to come home."
48	* "I'll Sink Manhattan" by Music/TheyMightBeGiants, in which the narrator kills not only his ex-lover, but [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill everyone in Manhattan as well.]]
49	* "Jealous Girl" by Music/LanaDelRey
50	-->Think you should be my man
51	-->No one's better than I am
52	-->C'mon give it to me, bam
53	-->If I can't have you baby, no one else in this world can
54	* "Over You", an early hit by Aaron Neville, just comes out and says, "If you ever break up with me I'll murder you." LyricalDissonance may obscure this a little.
55	* Music/JonathanCoulton's Skullcrusher Mountain has overtones of this trope, in a MadScientist kind of way.
56	* Delain's "I Want You" starts out seeming like a typical unrequited-love song; it gradually becomes clear the narrator is a StalkerWithACrush and ends here, even including the trope name verbatim.
57	* “Toy Soldiers” by Music/MarianasTrench, which is about [[StalkerWithACrush creepy fans who obsess over celebrities]] to the point where they genuinely believe this trope.
58	-->''One day you will learn to love me\
59	One day you will thank me, you'll see\
60	If I can't have you, no one can''
61	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E52rxz2sjRs The Willow Maid]] is about a young man who lusts after a dryad. When she rejects him, he chops down her tree and forces her to leave the forest, which predictably ends in her death.
62	* "Macaulay [=McCulkin=]" by Music/TheFallOfTroy is a pretty disturbing example.
63	-->''I'll be waiting on the side of your house\
64	With an empty body bag\
65	And a loaded .45''
66	* Word for word in Music/NataliaKills's "I'm Watching You".
67	-->''No, no, no, this was not the plan,\
68	If I can't have you, then no one can.''
69	* "Psycho" by Music/MaisiePeters has a {{Hypocrite}} version, where the singer's ex has ''already started dating again'' (and may have been doing do ''before'' the break up) but is still trying to control her and stop her moving on.
70	-->You don't want me at all,\
71	But you don't want me to fall,\
72	For anyone, but you'll go with anyone.
73	* Music/KnifeParty's "Internet Friends" features the protagonist ranting that her crush is refusing her advances ([[EntitledToHaveYou "Look at everything I've done for you!"]]) and accusing them of seeing other women ("I bet you're busy talking to some fucking slut! / Fucking skank! / Is she hotter than me?") It culminates in the subject of her affection blocking her on Facebook, which she does not take well at all.
74	--> You blocked me on Facebook, [[DisproportionateRetribution and now you're going to die]].
75	* Quoted verbatim in "Kill Bill" by Music/{{SZA}}, a song that narrates her fantasy of killing her ex and his new girlfriend (and eventually doing it). In the first bridge, she sings "if I can't have you, no one should", with "should" being replaced with "will" in the second bridge, indicating that she is coming closer to going through with her murderous plan.

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