All I Know Lyrics
I'm kind of grateful to see interpretations here about a missed opportunity of love. A good friend of mine showed me this song back in high school. He used to say I was the only person he could send a Screaming Trees song. Not long ago All I Know came on the radio, I hadn't heard it in a while and it reminded me of this friend. The next week that friend passed away. In processing the grief of this loss a lot surfaced and I realized more consciously my feelings for him. Long story short, I think we both always had feelings, but life circumstances never allowed for more than a short fling one summer. We always kept in touch despite living in different cities. One of those people it doesn;t matter how much time passes, when you're with them it's like nothing has changed. He was the best. Now I look back with love and wonder if things had been different how good we might have been together. Could have been, should have been, mine...
1st of all Screaming Trees Frickin RULE! Anyone who likes good music should give Dust a listen to! I think this song is about lost love. You know, the singer feels he has failed to be with someone that he could of been with but he tottally messed up somewhere. Brilliant song!
Those are great interpretations guys. I had a blast reading them.
The screaming trees are incredible I can honestly not believe that these guys got so little acolytes for their work,
Lanegan has the perfect voice for the trees' blend of 60s psychedelic rock and the 90s grunge sound.
All I know is an incredible song and i Guarantee that if more people had heard it, it would have been a hit,
Hint Hint: anyone with a band out there, cover this song and give the credits to the TREEEEEEEESS ;)
oh man, this is summer dispair. Drenched with 60's carefree acid and happiness despite the cynical lyrics. Running away indeed, it's what the generation is about which kinda makes me question the intentions in the first place. Metaphors suggest strong violence and a strong tendancy towards the violence nay more like an appetite for the pain! Biting on the thorn...lines that make me questy, especially considering the actual instrumental content being so uplifting. The 2nd layer is masochistic, persuaded by a kiss i already know is full of deceit, but i love it anyway. A guilty pleasure of a message, but PURE gem of a song. Lanegan Lives!
I thought it had something with them never quite getting the superstardom that some of the other bands on the scene received. Realizing in the mid-nineties they just were not seen as the groundbreakers they pioneered in the late eighties. I do not know if they are considered pioneers even but were they not making music long before the nirvana's and Pearl Jam's... Then of course they deal with by biting the thorn (heroin)
This song brilliantly recalls the ticking down of the clock. His dilemma is to run or stay, and if he stays he'll get everything but he'll be nailed down; and if he runs he'll be free, but he'll lose everything.
But it seems like this is a reoccurring thing, and the song begins with him facing it again.
He tells himself to bite the syringe. Then the craving grows. And he caves in.
These guys deserved so much more...
I used to think that 'bite the thorn that pierce the skin' referred to a syringe. As straight forward as this song seems, it's difficult to grasp the perspective.
Really hard for me to understand how this song is about anything other than a missed opportunity in love.