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Don't turn away, you haven't yet awakened
Why don't you stay, remember what you said
Ten thousand miles and everyone's mistaken
Look where you've been
Where every woman's wasted
All the while you've been sleeping
Drifting on a wind never blown
Tomorrow you'll wake up aching

Wondering how, when no one really knows
Don't speak a word, of all that you've been saving
If there isn't time then you should let it go
Into the fire and bring back all you've taken
Once more alone you'll never let it show
All the while you've been sleeping
Drifting on a wind never blown
Tomorrow you'll wake up aching

Wondering how, when no one really knows
Now what have I do wrong
Can't you tell me what have I done wrong
Baby tell me what have I done wrong

Don't walk away, you haven't yet awakened
Why don't you stay, remember what you said
Ten thousand miles, and everyone's mistaken
Look where you've been
Where every woman's wasted
All the while you've been sleeping
Drifting on a wind never blown
Tomorrow you'll wake up aching

Wondering how, when no one really knows
Now what have I do wrong
Can't you tell me what have I done wrong
Baby tell me what have I done wrong
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black_cow_of_death On Jan 20, 2002
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Cover art for No One Knows lyrics by Screaming Trees

It's about being being forced to be alone because of an addiction. You eventually become so isolated that you can't have anything and no one else truly knows what it's like. Trying to have a relationship with someone else or with anything is always ruined, but there's still a person alive inside suffering. Alone. That part that still wants all those good things, but knows they can never have them.

Cover art for No One Knows lyrics by Screaming Trees

Actually it doesn't mean that at all. Please don't think I'm retarded. I was having one of the worst days of my life.

Cover art for No One Knows lyrics by Screaming Trees

I think that you have some of it right, not sure about the drug addiction but I am pretty certain it is about a person's problem with their loneliness. All of their life they have become this person and have constantly run away from their problems and no one knows who he really is.

Since I am crazy and fucked up, I interpret this song to be about sexual assault. Of course, my psycho brain is probably just twisting the song to fit my own situation.

Cover art for No One Knows lyrics by Screaming Trees

To ME, this song has always been about the horror and isolation of addiction. I had a crush on a woman who confided in me that she was an alcoholic, and for me, this was HER song. Every line, every word, echoed her situation. It used to make me tear up hearing it. I loved this woman as a dear, dear friend (and probably more), and this song crushed me each time I heard it.

 
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