You Don’t Know

Alice Ripley * Track #9 On Next to Normal (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

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Alice Ripley

2009

You Don't Know by Alice Ripley

Release Date

Tue May 12 2009

Performed by

Alice Ripley

Produced by

Joel Moss & Tom Kitt & David Stone & Kurt Deutsch

Writed by

Tom Kitt & Brian Yorkey

About

This song deals with Diana expressing her frustrations in living with bipolar disorder, and of her husband’s lack of true understanding as to what she’s actually going through. As well, she trivializes the pain he himself is dealing with, due to the fact that he doesn’t display it openly.

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You Don’t Know Lyrics

[DIANA]
Do you wake up in the morning and need help to lift your head?
Do you read obituaries and feel jealous of the dead?
It's like living on a cliffside, not knowing when you'll dive
Do you know, do you know, what it's like to die alive?

When the world that once had color
Fades to white and gray and black
When tomorrow terrifies you
But you'll die if you look back

You don't know
I know you don't know
You say that you're hurting, it sure doesn't show
You don't know
It lays me so low
When you say let go, and I say you don't know

The sensation that you're screaming, but you never make a sound
Or the feeling that you're falling, but you never hit the ground
It just keeps on rushing at you, day-by-day-by-day-by-day
You don't know, you don't know, what it's like to live that way
Like a refugee, a fugitive, forever on the run
If it gets me it will kill me, but I don't know what I've done

You Don’t Know Q&A

Who wrote You Don’t Know's ?

You Don’t Know was written by Tom Kitt & Brian Yorkey.

Who produced You Don’t Know's ?

You Don’t Know was produced by Joel Moss & Tom Kitt & David Stone & Kurt Deutsch.