You Know

Damn all those people who don't lose control

Who will never take a foot out of life

You might not care what I think

But you don't know what I know



And damn all those hippies

Who stomp empty footed

Upon all that's good

All that's pure of the world

You might not think that I care

But you don't know what I know



Bless all those mothers

Who do all they can

Just to take their faults out of the line

I might not know what it's like

But I'm glad that you know



Give me a minute there

Just a minute now

It'll come back to me



I was so sure that you

Freewheeling troubadour

You took my mind off the seam

And you know

And I know I know I know that you know



You asked me blind once

If I was a child once

And I said I'm really not sure

How can you know

How can you know

What it is you don't know?



We were a pair once

Of so much despair

Oh we were a child then I'm sure

But if we were a child then

We are children no more



Give me a minute there

Just a minute now

It'll come back to me



I was so sure that you

Freewheeling troubadour

You took my mind off the seam

And you know

And I know I know I know what you know

You know you know you know

And I know what you know