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You Don't Know How It Feels
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Wikipedia article
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| name = You Don't Know How It Feels
| cover = Tom Petty - You Don't Know How it Feels Single2.jpg
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| type = single
| artist = Tom Petty
| album = Wildflowers
| B-side = Girl on LSD
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| length = 4:49
| label = Warner Bros.
| writer = Tom Petty
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| prev_title = American Girl (re-release)
| prev_year = 1994
| next_title = You Wreck Me
| next_year = 1995
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"'You Don't Know How It Feels'" is a song and the lead single from Tom Petty's 1994 album, 'Wildflowers'. The track features candid lyrics describing the songwriter's desire for personal and professional autonomy.Greenwald, Matthew. [ You Don't Know How It Feels]. Allmusic. Retrieved on April 9, 2009.
The single reached No. 1 on the US 'Billboard' Album Rock Tracks chart, No. 3 on the Canadian 'RPM' Top Singles chart, and No. 13 on the 'Billboard' Hot 100, becoming Petty's last top-40 hit in the US. An alternate version was posthumously released on June 26, 2020. This version peaked at No. 54 on the iTunes chart.
MTV, VH1 and many radio stations aired a censored version of "You Don't Know How It Feels," taking the word "roll" out of "let's roll another joint", as well as a version that played the word "joint" backwards. A version replacing the word "roll" with "hit" was also made. The music video won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Male Video in 1995. The girl in the video is Raven Snow; she also appeared in several episodes of Zalman King's 'Red Shoe Diaries' and the film 'Delta of Venus' as lounge singer Leila.
Track listing
* "You Don't Know How It Feels"
* "House in the Woods"
* "Girl on LSD"
* "Mary Jane's Last Dance"
* "Something in the Air"
"Girl on LSD"
Petty originally intended the B-side of the single, "Girl on LSD", to appear on 'Wildflowers', but Warner Bros. refused because it was too controversial. In the song Petty sings about being in love with multiple girls on different drugs: marijuana, cocaine, LSD, beer, crystal meth, china white (a slang term for heroin) and coffee. In the chorus Petty states: "Through ecstasy, crystal meth and glue/I found no drug compares to you/all these pills, all this weed/I dunno just what I need."
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References
Category:1994 singles
Category:1994 songs
Category:Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance
Category:MTV Video Music Award for Best Male Video
Category:Music videos directed by Phil Joanou
Category:Song recordings produced by Rick Rubin
Category:Songs about drugs
Category:Songs written by Tom Petty
Category:Tom Petty songs
Category:Warner Records singles
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