If the Lights Go Out

"If the Lights Go Out"
Single by Katie Melua
from the album Pictures
B-side"Looking for Clues"
Released25 February 2008
GenreArt rock
Length3:14
LabelDramatico
Songwriter(s)Mike Batt
Producer(s)Mike Batt
Katie Melua singles chronology
"Mary Pickford"
(2007)
"If the Lights Go Out"
(2008)
"The Flood"
(2010)

"If the Lights Go Out" is a song written by Mike Batt for The Hollies, and first released by them in the July 1983 on the album What Goes Around.

Cash Box said that "a love-will-prevail-even-if-doomsday-comes message is affirmed by the group’s classic harmonies and guitar tones."

The cover version by Georgian-born, British singer Katie Melua, was released on 25 February 2008. It is Melua's eleventh single (not counting her number one duet of "What a Wonderful World" with Eva Cassidy) and the third from her third album, Pictures.