You Dont Know by Gold Banquet Lyrics
[Verse 1]
There once was a time that we knew damn well we'd be wise beyond our years
Now we're old and it just seems we're getting dumber
There once was a rhyme that could bring peacefulness to both our ears
This music lets us know that we're not getting any younger
[Verse 2]
My mother would not be proud of my mouth
I can't get a sentence out without some sacrilege or sounding like a sailor
Every time I go home for the holidays and tell her how it's been, the look on her face says it's obvious I have failed her
[Chorus]
But you don't know, no
You can't go where I've been
And I don't know, no
I'll never get where I'm going
[Verse 3]
And every day I hear somebody say something like
"Yeah, I just got back from China backpacking and giving food to children"
I have never strayed too far away from this east coast where I remain
In my heart I am so envious I could kill them
[Verse 4]
And I am running out of time to do the things I used to say that I
Was put on this earth to do by God in His heaven
Seems that I believed in something then
Dear lord, what happened to my head?
Now the days go by so fast I have no time to let 'em sink in
[Chorus]
But you don't know, no
You can't go where I've been
And I don't know, no
I'll never get where I'm going
[Outro]
And you don't know, no
You can't go where I've been
And I don't know, no
I'll never get where I'm going
(Thank you)
There once was a time that we knew damn well we'd be wise beyond our years
Now we're old and it just seems we're getting dumber
There once was a rhyme that could bring peacefulness to both our ears
This music lets us know that we're not getting any younger
[Verse 2]
My mother would not be proud of my mouth
I can't get a sentence out without some sacrilege or sounding like a sailor
Every time I go home for the holidays and tell her how it's been, the look on her face says it's obvious I have failed her
[Chorus]
But you don't know, no
You can't go where I've been
And I don't know, no
I'll never get where I'm going
[Verse 3]
And every day I hear somebody say something like
"Yeah, I just got back from China backpacking and giving food to children"
I have never strayed too far away from this east coast where I remain
In my heart I am so envious I could kill them
[Verse 4]
And I am running out of time to do the things I used to say that I
Was put on this earth to do by God in His heaven
Seems that I believed in something then
Dear lord, what happened to my head?
Now the days go by so fast I have no time to let 'em sink in
[Chorus]
But you don't know, no
You can't go where I've been
And I don't know, no
I'll never get where I'm going
[Outro]
And you don't know, no
You can't go where I've been
And I don't know, no
I'll never get where I'm going
(Thank you)