"If You Ever Come Back" is a song by Irish alternative rock band The Script from their second studio album, Science & Faith

Science & Faith

Science & Faith is the second studio album by Irish alternative rock band The Script. It was released in Ireland on 10 September 2010 on RCA Records, Epic Records and Phonogenic Records. It was preceded by the lead single, "For the First Time" on 3 September 2010. It debuted at number one in...

. The song was released as the third single on 4 April 2011. It was written and produced by Danny O'Donoghue

Danny O'Donoghue

Danny O'Donoghue is an Irish singer-songwriter from the band The Script.-Career:O'Donoghue was an original member of a late '90s Eamonn Maguire managed Band called Mytown after being signed for $15 million dollars to Universal Records in 1999...

, Mark Sheehan

Mark Sheehan

Mark Sheehan is an Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer. From 1996 to 2001, he was a member of the band Mytown, and since 2001, he has been the guitarist for indie rock band The Script.-Biography:Sheehan was born in Mount Brown in The Liberties area of Dublin...

, Steve Kipner

Steve Kipner

Steve Kipner is a multi-platinum-selling songwriter and record producer with hits spanning over a 40 year history, including chart-topping songs such as Olivia Newton-John's "Physical", Chicago's Grammy-nominated "Hard Habit to Break", "Genie In A Bottle" by Christina Aguilera, for which he won an...

, and Andrew Frampton.

Personnel

• Songwriting
  Songwriter
  A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...
  
   – Danny O'Donoghue
  Danny O'Donoghue
  Danny O'Donoghue is an Irish singer-songwriter from the band The Script.-Career:O'Donoghue was an original member of a late '90s Eamonn Maguire managed Band called Mytown after being signed for $15 million dollars to Universal Records in 1999...
  
  , Mark Sheehan
  Mark Sheehan
  Mark Sheehan is an Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer. From 1996 to 2001, he was a member of the band Mytown, and since 2001, he has been the guitarist for indie rock band The Script.-Biography:Sheehan was born in Mount Brown in The Liberties area of Dublin...
  
  , Steve Kipner
  Steve Kipner
  Steve Kipner is a multi-platinum-selling songwriter and record producer with hits spanning over a 40 year history, including chart-topping songs such as Olivia Newton-John's "Physical", Chicago's Grammy-nominated "Hard Habit to Break", "Genie In A Bottle" by Christina Aguilera, for which he won an...
  
  , Andrew Frampton
• Production
  Record producer
  A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
  
   – Mark Sheehan, Danny O'Donoghue, Andrew Frampton, Steve Kipner
• Drums
  Drum kit
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  , guitars
  Guitar
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  , keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
  A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
  
   and vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
   – The Script
• Guitars, keyboards and programming – Andrew Frampton
• Bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
   – Ben Sargeant

Chart performance

On 18 April 2011, "If You Ever Come Back" debuted on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart

ARIA Charts

The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...

at number fifty-four.

Charts

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Chart (2011)	Peak position