If I Should Die Tonight

"If I Should Die Tonight" is a 1973 song written by Ed Townsend and Marvin Gaye and recorded by Marvin as a single issued on his Let's Get It On album as the third track on the album. Following the title track and the album single, "Please Stay (Once You Go Away)", Marvin discusses in the song about his mortality telling his lover that if he should ever die either that night or later on, he said he "(wouldn't) die blue/'cause I've known you". The song was later covered as an interlude on Puff Daddy's 1997 album, No Way Out, with Carl Thomas singing parts of the song.