Yellow Brick Road Lyrics
what I believe he's getting at with "If I knew now what I knew then" is that when you're a kid, you thing you know everything about everything. Thing seem more simple when you "know everything", so I think he's saying if he knew everything now like he did when he was a kid, he'd have all the answers and everything would be easy.
I think it says: We weren't our problems, our age or our paycheques.
Fixed. Thanks!
fucking ace. full stop.
I think the lyrics are: "If I know now what I knew then .."
This song is amaaaaazing.
We weren't our problems, our age or our paychecks and We weren't our money, our muscles or our regrets. not to be picky or anything:) and im not sure, but it might be "wise up" innstead of rise up
but anyways great song amazing lyrics amazing musician.
Not sure about the rise/wise or the know/knew, but I'll change it if others agree.
Im pretty sure it is rise up, but the Know thing is like 99%. Unless someone has his actual lyric book and can actually counter that.
just think about it though - if hes talking about knowing something now - how can you "knew" something in the present tense? "Knew" is past tense. "If I knew now" wouldn't really be gramatically correct. It would kinda be an oxymoron.
But like I said - if someone has the lyric book, then they should go by that.
It actually makes perfect grammatical sense. Think about it. Haven't you ever heard anyone say "If I knew that, I would..."
Knew is the present as well as past tense. Know is "to know". I'm not an english major obviously, but it's very clear that knew is the appropriate word in this situation. And it also clearly sounds like knew.
Also, it sounds like "wise up" to me.
Having seen it live - I believe he does say "Wise"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=V9AMaxJNILo
Still hearing him say "know" though.