What do you think No One Knows means?

Queens of the Stone Age: No One Knows Meaning

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Song Released: 2002


No One Knows Lyrics

We get some rules to follow
That and this
These and those
No one knows

We get these pills to swallow
How they stick
In your throat
Tastes like gold

Oh, what you do to me
No one knows

And I realize you’re mine
Indeed a fool of...

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  1. anonymous
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     Jun 5th 2021 !⃝

    First things first
    A naaa no no fricken way!

    These lyrics mean a lot to a variety of listeners just like when someone
    reads poetry and interprets it one
    way and someone else another.
    We all have our beliefs and meaning behind the lyrics.

    For myself it goes deeper than
    The words the explicit meaning
    beneath the words are a darker
    sinister meaning. Something hidden from view , something no one knows except he himself.
    As he proclaims the we get some rules to follow this is clearly in my belief rules from God only because he uses another lyrics Heaven smiles above me. Now as I see it
    he’s referring to 10 commandments
    and Biblical rules, however there’s a strong sense of love building and
    no one knows as he goes on in his lyrics to say with a gift down below
    the only gift that is spoken of in the Bible is the gift of a faithful woman.
    Someone clearly feels as I do about
    these lyrics and it’s purely love
    And love returned yet following God’s rules he and she, even loving one another infinitely won’t fall to sin. And he therefore wants to give up hope and yet his heart feels otherwise. But he can’t let go cause
    she’s a gift to him from Heaven.
    This is my belief to bad we cannot ask him .

  2. anonymous
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     Mar 19th 2021 !⃝

    is he talking about satan? and how he says " here down below" "no one knows" or even "heaven smiles above me" sounds like he's talking about satan?! idk but just a little sketchy to me. great drummer tho.

  3. Solidgold
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     Jun 10th 2019 !⃝

    Jesus Christ. This song is about religion. "We get some rules to follow, but no one knows". Are there any real queens fans? Atleast any with a brain?

  4. anonymous
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     Oct 8th 2014 !⃝

    I think it is about oral sex.

  5. anonymous
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     Jun 30th 2014 !⃝

    I would say it's about a guy in what he believes to be unrequited love with someone who actually feels the same, and getting that sudden smack to the head when he realises.

    I suspect that, from the first verse ("We get some rules to follow") the girl might already be in a relationship with someone else... you have to follow "the rules" and stand off if she's already taken, but the guy wishes that it weren't so. A bitter pill to swallow.

    Then there's the "journey through the desert/of the mind, with no hope"... anyone who's been in the situation of being in love without being able to express it knows that seemingly-endless and utterly hopeless trudge through life. And by the end of teh second verse, he's at the stage where it all comes to a head, and he "come[s] undone"... he's almost ready to give up, "pleasantly caving in" as it's almost a relief to accept the total abandonment of painful hope.

    And then, in the last verse - just when he thinks things can't get any worse - we get what the chorus has been hinting at throughout... "I realise you're mine"; suddenly his jaw drops and reality turns sideways as he suddenly gets that the girl wanted him all along - maybe she went with whoever else just to reverse-psychologise him, or maybe she was just tired of waiting alone and found a 'silver medal' guy, because the one the girl really wanted all along was too wrapped up in his own lack of self-belief to believe he even had a shot. He just had to come round to it in his own time.

  6. anonymous
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     Feb 12th 2014 !⃝

    I was into heroin when this came out and always thought it was about painkillers. If you were ever into opiates, you would immediately see the parallels. I used to describe Percocet as tasting like gold before I ever heard this song. That was the first thing that caught my attention. And no one knows.. My circle and I always kept our thing on the DL. Literally nobody knew what we were into. Being a junkie is like being in a secret society. Or at least it was. It's been almost a decade - before people started documenting the dumb ish they do on Instagram.

  7. anonymous
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     Jul 24th 2013 !⃝

    This song is about someone having depression and having too much pride to share it with anyone else or to seek help. They do their best to hide it and carry on with their lives, convincing themselves that it is a phase and they can overcome it with willpower alone. Sometimes this leads them to drugs and/or alcohol to cope. The more they bottle it up, the worse it gets and it may eventually lead to sucide if pride gets the better of them.

  8. anonymous
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     Jul 4th 2013 !⃝

    Holey shit you agoraphobic losers - it's about a quiet love.

  9. anonymous
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     Feb 6th 2013 !⃝

    Contrary to the first commenter's statement about the cross that Dave Grohl wears, the "upside down" cross is actually the cross of St. Peter. Someone who is very knowledgeable on all religions would know that.

  10. anonymous
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     Aug 23rd 2012 !⃝

    This song may have lyrical hints towards drugs. but i assure you this song is not about drugs and addiction. If anything this is a well disguised song about satanism. not particularly meaning that these band members and DAVE GROHL believes in Satan. there are many types of this type of belief. one is the Theistic/Spiritual Satanism. Which im going to figure that this is the type that they belive in. than you have the so called Devil Worshiping Satanism where they actually believe in Satan and god, but they prefer to worship satan. This song talks about the give that you give to me. which i am figuring is talking about they're occult type rituals and beliefs.Then the lyrics that says something like, "Heaven smiles above me
    What a gift there below, But no one knows". This is referring to the fact that they could be like the so called, "Norm", and follow life's little rules that is easily influenced by Christianity and religion in general, but what they have could only come from below. Their theistic satanic beliefs or simply the devil himself.

    .although i am anonymous, i would like to clarify that i am neither christian or satanic. i am just very knowledgeable on all religions. many bands are confused for believing these things, but the ones that actually do are usually very cryptic with they're underground messages. i assure you that this band and dave grohl, lead singer of foo fighters and past drummer of nirvana are satanists. dave grohl doesnt technically hide it, he just doesnt advertise it. he has on many occasions worn an upside down cross for a necklace.

  11. anonymous
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     Jun 20th 2011 !⃝

    Hard drugs.


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