Lyrics:

Janet: What's the next song?
Q-Tip:The one about me...
Janet: Oh yeah? I like this song; uh-uh, like Joni says...

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's...
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's...
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's...
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone

Have a feelin'
Now believin'
That you were the one
I was meant to be with.
Oh, how I'm wishin'
Thinkin', dreamin'
'bout you
And the love
How'd I ever let you get away?

Got 'til it's gone
Got 'til it's gone

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's (gone)
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's (gone)
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone

If I could turn back the hands of time
Make you fall in love
In love with me again
So would you give me
Another chance to love
To love you
Love you the right way?
No games

Got 'til it's gone
Got 'til it's gone

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's (gone)
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's (gone)
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's

Q-Tip: Let me just fuck with it for a minute
Janet: That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone

Q-Tip:
Now you are realizing when the nights go long, right
Campaign for me to stay
When you know that I'm gone, right
You act all wild
When I tell you to settle
I was working 'round the clock
But you girls want to meddle
Talkin' about, I heard he swims with this chick on the beach
That was out with the tide but my love you impeached
Now you lookin' at the walls
Head in hand
Cold jonezin'
Ringing my house
Hang up and posing
Now why you wanna go and do that?
Love huh...
And why you wanna go and do that?
And do that? Huh...
Now why you wanna go and do that?
Love huh...
And why you wanna go and do that?
And do that? Huh...
Now why you wanna go and do that?
Love huh...

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's (gone)
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's (gone)
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's (gone)
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone

Written by Janet Jackson, James Harris III, Terry Lewis, Rene Elizondo Jr., Joni Mitchell and Kamaal Ibn Fareed

Produced by James Harris III, Terry Lewis and Janet Jackson