High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "If It`s Over" is a song written by the American singer-songwriters Mariah Carey and Carole King, with the former and Walter Afanasieff helming its production. It was originally released on September 17, 1991 on Carey`s second studio effort, Emotions. Lyrically, the song tells of a romance that has withered, and finds the protagonist asking her lover "if it`s over, let me go." Several months after the release of Emotions, Carey performed the song during her appearance on the television show MTV Unplugged, as the second number on her setlist.