You Don't Know Me
Alternative rock ballad featuring a solo male tenor vocal. The arrangement is sparse, consisting of a single clean electric guitar with a slight chorus effect and moderate reverb. The guitar plays arpeggiated chords in a 4/4 time signature at approximately 72 BPM. The vocal performance is expressive, utilizing a wide dynamic range from soft, breathy delivery to powerful, sustained chest-voice belts with a slight grit on high notes. The key is E major. The vocal melody features significant melisma and long-held notes at the end of phrases.
You Don't Know Me
Alternative rock ballad featuring a solo male tenor vocal. The arrangement is sparse, consisting of a single clean electric guitar with a slight chorus effect and moderate reverb. The guitar plays arpeggiated chords in a 4/4 time signature at approximately 72 BPM. The vocal performance is expressive, utilizing a wide dynamic range from soft, breathy delivery to powerful, sustained chest-voice belts with a slight grit on high notes. The key is E major. The vocal melody features significant melisma and long-held notes at the end of phrases.
Lyrics
Instrumental Hook
Verse 1
clean electric guitar arpeggio
male tenor vocals
I woke up to the sound of the same old fight
Staring at the ceiling in the pale streetlight
Every promise that I held just slipped through my hands
Like sand through a busted, broken hourglass
Pre-Chorus
And I tried to be patient, tried to be kind
But the ghosts in my head never left me behind
Now the pressure is rising, the walls cave in
And I don't know where I end or where I begin
Chorus
Because you don't know me
I don't know myself
'Cause I'm jaded [vocal grit]
Exasperated [vocal belt]
guitar continues arpeggio
Oh
Just leave me for dead
Break
Verse 2
I wear my regret like a stain on my skin
Every road that I take ends up back where I've been
And the mirror don't lie, it just tells me the truth
That the damage in me isn't something you can soothe
Pre-Chorus
I can hear the cold truth in the words left unsaid
All the dreams that we buried still bang in my head
If I reach for the light, will it burn me instead?
I'm tired of the weight that I carry like lead
Chorus
Because you don't know me
I don't know myself
'Cause I'm jaded [vocal grit]
Exasperated [vocal belt]
guitar continues arpeggio
Oh
Just leave me for dead
Bridge
But if I fall apart, don't pick up the pieces
Let the silence speak, let the dark release us
Maybe in the wreckage, maybe in the rain
I'll find something human in the heart of the pain
Final Chorus
Because you don't know me
I don't know myself
'Cause I'm jaded [vocal grit]
Exasperated [vocal belt]
guitar builds
Oh
But I'm not left for dead
No, I'm not left for dead
Outro
clean electric guitar arpeggio fades
male tenor vocals
And if the night won't end
I'll sing until I can
fade out