You Don't Know Me

Really really beautiful and tearjerking, used in the film Groundhog Day if I remember rightly.

pretty obvious what the song is about, but it is a beautiful sad sweet song

This, i would say, has to be one of his best songs. It just strikes something inside of you that cant be explained.

totally agree! its soul . the musics soul really gets me in this track . and the text are also pretty obvious.

This is one of my favorite songs of all time... it just hits the nail on the head for me and I know exactly what it's like to feel like the guy in the song. I can't understand why this isn't one of Mr. Charles' more famous songs..

Ray Charles didn't write this song, but his version is the best.

I've heard it hundreds of times, yet every time it still just kills me. It's a warning to not let the one you love slip away because you were afraid to tell them how you feel.

I remember when I was struggling to ask out my best friend and first love, who I hold dear to this day. A friend played this song, and to this day it captures that time. Despite the fact that things didn't go well, I have held that message with me since then and I think everyone should hear this song and keep it in mind in future.

I love the line 'You think you know me well' in this song. It seems to contain the frustration of the speaker, who desperately wants the girl to know him well, and is angry (perhaps even insulted) that she thinks she has achieved this already, when he had so much more to offer.

He feels compelled to blame her for the misunderstanding (with the use of 'anyone can tell' and the repetition of 'YOU don't know me'), but evidently understands that actually he is mostly at fault for being so passive ('Afraid and shy, I let my chance go by').

For me, the song is about the naivety of a 'first love,' which affects you intensely and yet you don't have the experience to know how to deal with it.