Pink: Who Knew Meaning

Song Released: 2006

Who Knew Lyrics

You took my hand
You showed me how
You promised me
You'd be around
Uh huh
That's right
I took your words
And I believed
In everything
You said to me
Yeah huh
That's right
If someone said three years from now
You'd be long gone
I'd...

1. anonymous

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   Feb 14th 2008 !⃝

   I am a journalist, and I got to interview Pink over e-mail. She says it's about a guy that she dated. There are many references to missing someone and death in the song.
   
   If someone said three years from now
   You'd be long gone
   I'd stand up and punch them out
   Cause they're all wrong
   I know better
   Cause you said forever
   And ever
   
   "The guy I was dating once died, and I guess when you're young, you think you're invincible, and I believed to some extent that he was, I don't know... larger than life and he'd never die. In the end, the drugs got him."
   
   She kept emphasizing to me, and giving me lyrics that gave more and more proof that the guy in this song was killed by the drugs he did, and left her devastated.
   
   "Besides," she says, "I always tell it like it is. If it had been an ordinary breakup, I would have just written it like 'Hey, f*** off."
2. anonymous

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   Jan 27th 2008 !⃝

   1.) I believe this isn't about breaking up. I think it's a lot deeper than that.
   2.) If it were about breaking up, she wouldn't call the person her darling, she wouldn't say she'd cherish there last kiss until they meet again.
   
   Honestly, I think it's about death and someone close to her.
3. anonymous

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   Jan 1st 2008 !⃝

   Ok well I know that pink said that they were only good friends but if you look in the video the girl and bot were pretty much kissing and all over each other.so maybe she liked this person more then a friend and he was into drugs and her feelings for him blinded her of the fact he was using drugs and all her friends told her he was going to die but th guy told her he promised it was under control....obviously in the end it wasnt.
   
   i don't know where you get the whole drowning thing you see water maybe three times in that video
4. anonymous

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   Dec 11th 2007 !⃝

   Ok, ok. I really don't think this is about a drug addiction. I mean hasn't every teen age girl been through one of these relationships. When you think you all in love but it just stabs you horribly in the back and you feel like wow this is crazy I wish I would have listened to every one else.

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5. anonymous

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   Dec 10th 2007 !⃝

   Pink in the London Daily Mail May 26th 2006 said this song is about losing a loved one to drugs: "My life was insane, I was (in her youth) out of control and doing lots of stupid things. Some of my friends were selling crack, and I got into drugs too. I've always been honest about that, although I don't like going into details. I've got lots of young fans and I wouldn't want to give them any ideas. I found a friend dead from a drug overdose when I was 14. He was a male friend, not a boyfriend. Most of the people at the funeral were just children. It should have been a wake-up call for me, but it wasn't." (thanks, Edward Pearce - Ashford, Kent, England)
6. anonymous

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   Nov 15th 2007 !⃝

   It IS about drugs people.
   From Pink herself:
   Pink in the London Daily Mail May 26th 2006 said this song is about losing a loved one to drugs: "My life was insane, I was (in her youth) out of control and doing lots of stupid things. Some of my friends were selling crack, and I got into drugs too. I've always been honest about that, although I don't like going into details. I've got lots of young fans and I wouldn't want to give them any ideas. I found a friend dead from a drug overdose when I was 14. He was a male friend, not a boyfriend. Most of the people at the funeral were just children. It should have been a wake-up call for me, but it wasn't."
7. anonymous

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   Nov 7th 2007 !⃝

   It's obvious that this song is not just about a break up.
   "I won't forget you my friend". Would anyone ever say that about someone who broke their heart? Maybe someone really needy would say "I won't forget you", but to call him or her "my friend"? Common sense. Besides, Pink is a stronger person than even saying the first part.
   Also, "when someone said count your blessings now before they're all gone". Would you call someone who broke up with you three years ago a blessing?
   Besides, artists don't make random music videos for no reason. Just from that and the lyrics, it only makes sense that way.
8. anonymous

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   Nov 5th 2007 !⃝

   I've never seen the video so take that into account. Had to listen to it a couple times. Just going by the words it is about her boyfriend or friend dying. Whether to drugs or something else I don't know. But clearly the words indicate he is not coming back. "Count your blessings", "you visit me in my sleep", etc., etc.
9. anonymous

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   Nov 2nd 2007 !⃝

   It is NOT about drugs...... It IS about Dying!!!!!!!!!
   At least that's my opinion :)

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10. anonymous

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    Oct 14th 2007 !⃝

    This song is about a girl's close friend/boyfriend who says that he'll never leave her. Everyone tells her that he is gonna die or etc.
    
    I think he has a drug problem, because if you look at the way he acts in the video he looks angry and pushes her away a lot.
11. anonymous

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    Sep 21st 2007 !⃝

    Have not seen the video, but to me the song could be talking about the girl of a couple who got together and were having an intense relationship with all these high hopes and plans when boy is killed or dies and there's still so much longing and heart ache left in her that she's ruminating and Reminiscing on their intense but tragic love that lives on in her memory: "That last kiss, I'll cherish, Until we meet again, & time makes it harder, I wish I could remember, But I keep you memory, You visit me in my sleep..." when you lose someone, their memory fades even with your attempts to keep it strong because there's no more day to day interactions, only memories which slowly lose color over time. WHO KNEW what would happen, be it in the future or within the relationship and normal highs & lows.
    
    Music & Lyrics for different songs strike a slightly different chord in every person depending on their life experiences. People who've had a lot of interaction with drugs or with people who have been involved in drugs see it as something drug related. I can see that interpretation, but I also Lost someone Dear to me years ago and it still is Poignant to this day, but it to is fading so the song brings that to my mind more fully. She wishes it were Before when everything was Bright and wonderful, but "Who Knew?"
12. anonymous

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    Sep 14th 2007 !⃝

    Ok there's actual proof from a letter pink wrote that the song is inspired by a friend she lost to a drug overdose when she was twelve. So the song is pretty much about her feelings and thoughts there with a little romantic twist.
13. anonymous

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    Aug 18th 2007 !⃝

    Every song is open to everyones own interpretation.
    
    6 months ago had my best friend of 17 and ex boyfriend Od on drugs, he said to me he would be there for me forever and ever, and he would love me until the day he died, I still have these letters where he wrote them. So to me the drug thing fits perfectly. I never thought he would go before me, and I still think about him and dream about him all the time, his memory will be with me forever. I chose this song as one of the songs at his funeral.
    ...
14. anonymous

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    Jul 22nd 2007 !⃝

    I honestly think this song is about a girl and a boy who are dating. They are madly in love, but he has a drug addiction. One day the girl finds him dead and that's where "my darling I miss you" comes in.

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15. anonymous

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    Jun 5th 2007 !⃝

    I think it's about a boyfriend of hers that moved away, and she thought that they would be together forever. "If someone said three years from now
    You'd be long gone
    I'd stand up and punch them up" And then she never got to meet him again. "Who Knew" means, to me, who knew what life had in store for them. To be ripped apart because of the move...She still dreams about him, and she still loves him...Yeah...

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