Credits

• Written by: Queen
• Produced by: Queen and David Richards
• Musicians:

Freddie Mercury - lead and backing vocals

Brian May - guitars, keyboards, drum programming, backing vocals

John Deacon - bass guitar

Roger Taylor - backing vocals

David Richards - keyboard programming

• Length: 4:34

Discography

Albums:

	Innuendo, 1991
	Queen Rocks, 1997

Singles:

I Can't Live With You, 1991 USA Promo CD

Alternate Versions:

• LP Vinyl 4:05 (Early Fade) - Parlophone PCSD 115
• US CD 12” Radio 4:29 Brian Malouf Remix
• US CD 12” Radio 4:13 Brian Malouf Remix Edit
• 1997 Rocks Retake - Queen Rocks: Parlophone 823 0912
• 1998 eYe Full Instrumental - Electronic Arts DDE05501 101S

Queen Talks

"For some reason, 'I Can't Live With You' was almost impossible to mix. It was one of those things where you put all the faders up and it sounds pretty good, and you think, 'We'll work on this for a couple of hours.' Then it gets worse and worse and worse. We kept going back to the rough mix. It's got an atmosphere to it. I think it sounds so special because we kept a lot of the demo stuff on it. Usually it all gets replaced."

Brian May - August 1991, Guitar World

"As time goes by I find I'm more concerned with the lyrics than ever. A lot of people say you can only create when you're in pain. But when I was really in pain, I couldn't create anything. I couldn't even get out of bed. When you're climbing out and beginning to get things in the right boxes again, that's when you can put it into music. There's quite a bit of that sort of thing on this album. There's some in 'I Can't Live With You'; it's very personal, but I tried not to make it autobiographical because that narrows things too much. I tried to express it in a form that everyone can relate to."

Brian May - August 1991, Guitar World

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