“The One You Know” is the lead single and opening track of Alice in Chains’s album Rainier Fog, which was released on August 24, 2018. The single itself was released on May 4, 2018 alongside an official music video.
Vocalist/guitarist Jerry Cantrell said some things about the song in an interview w...
[Verse 1]
I'm a little alike you before
Things had changed
Inner compass aligned
All this feels rearranged
[Chorus]
Tell me, does it matter
If I'm still here, or I'm gone?
Shifting to the after
An impostor
I'm not the one you know
[Verse 2]
I look the same outside
Nearly me, even though
I carry something I hide
Underneath the one you know
[Chorus]
Tell me, does it matter
If I'm still here, or I'm gone?
Shifting to the after
An impostor soldiers on
Are you surprised
Black water flows
From wells run dry?
I'm not the one you know
[Guitar Solo]
[Bridge]
Lay me out with flowered guilt
Watch the explosions falling
Cannot live within this tilt
Carrying over
I'm not the one you know
[Chorus]
Tell me, does it matter
If I'm still here, or I'm gone?
Shifting to the after
An impostor soldiers on
Are you surprised
Black water flows
From wells run dry?
I'm not the one you know
I'm not the one you know
The One You Know was written by Jerry Cantrell.
The One You Know was produced by Nick Raskulinecz.
Alice in Chains released The One You Know on Fri May 04 2018.
On May 15, 2018, while in an intimate session with Chicago radio station 101WKQX at the Sound Lounge, Jerry Cantrell said the following:
It’s always really difficult for me to lay out what it is. Cause I’d rather you tell me… and not even tell me, it be whatever it is to you. And I’m also a little...