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You Don’t Know Me

Released by Kenny Loggins in 1976
From the Album: Celebrate Me Home |

This version of You Don’T Know Me was released by Kenny Loggins in 1976.

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You give your hand to me
And then you say “hello”.
And I can hardly speak,
My heart is beating so.
And anyone can tell
You think you know me well.
Well, you don’t know me.

No you don’t know the one
Who dreams of you at night,
And longs to kiss your lips,
And longs to hold you tight.
Oh I’m just a friend,
That’s all I’ve ever been.
Cause you don’t know me.

For I never knew the art of making love,
Though my heart aches with love for you.
Afraid and shy, I let my chance go by,
A chance that you might love me too.

You give your hand to me,
And then you say “goodbye”.
I watch you walk away,
Beside the lucky guy
Oh, you’ll never ever know
The one who loved you so.
Well, you don’t know me.

For I never knew the art of making love,
Though my heart aches with love for you.
Afraid and shy, I let my chance go by,
A chance that you might love me too.

Oh, you give your hand to me,
And then you say “goodbye”.
I watch you walk away
Beside the lucky guy.
Oh, you’ll never ever know
The one who loved you so.
Well, you don’t know me.


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Kenny Loggins has released many songs over the years besides You Don’T Know Me. Kenny Loggins released songs from 1976 to 2007 spanning across albums like Celebrate Me Home, Nightwatch, Keep The Fire, High Adventure, Vox Humana, Back To Avalon, Leap Of Faith, Return To Pooh Corner, The Unimaginable Life, December, More Songs From Pooh Corner, The Essential Kenny Loggins, It's About Time, and How About Now. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Kenny Loggins.

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When you decide to study the lyrics to You Don’T Know Me, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1976 song by Kenny Loggins. Some of the lyrics to You Don’T Know Me have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Kenny Loggins and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

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You can understand the lyrics to You Don’T Know Me if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to You Don’T Know Me" means the words set to the music of You Don’T Know Me, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Kenny Loggins. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to You Don’T Know Me and the lyrics to You Don’T Know Me are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Kenny Loggins who came here looking just for the lyrics to You Don’T Know Me, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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