Lyrics to
You Don’t Know Me

This version of You Don’T Know Me was released by Bette Midler in 1977.

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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.
Hell, you don’t know me.
You don’t know me.

You don’t know the one
who dreams of you at night;
longs to kiss your lips
and longs to hold you tight.
To you I’m just a friend.
That’s all I’ve ever been.
You don’t know me.

You, you just don’t know me,
’cause I never knew the art of making love,
though my heart, oh my heart, oh my heart
is aching just for you.
Afraid and shy, I let my chance go by.
The chance that you might learn to love me too.

You give your hand to me,
and then you say, you say, “Goodbye.”
I watch you walk away,
wishing you were mine.
You’ll never ever know the girl who loves you so.
You don’t know me. No, no, baby.

You don’t know me.
No, no, no, no, no, no, baby, baby.
You don’t know me, know me, know me.
Please know me.
Late in the midnight hour
I dream of you only.
But I am lonely.
Please know me.
Be my baby. C’mon, be my baby.
Late in the midnight hour
I live for you, baby.
Why don’t you know me?
Be my baby.
Why you mean to me?
Mean to me . . .

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The lyrics to You Don’T Know Me are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Bette Midler in 1977. Elements of the lyrics to You Don’T Know Me are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Bette Midler and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for You Don’T Know Me back when it was created.

Some people have an interest in the etymology behind words and phrases. You can take apart the lyrics to You Don’T Know Me by Bette Midler in a number of ways. 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 Bette Midler. 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 Bette Midler 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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