Someday We'll Know

Single infobox
Name = Someday We'll Know


Artist = New Radicals
from Album =
Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too
Released = September 20, 1999
Format = CD
Recorded = ???
Genre = Rock
Length = 3:39
Label = MCA Records
Producer = Gregg Alexander
Chart position =
* #28 (US Adult Top 40)
* #48 (UK Singles Chart)
Reviews =
* "NME" (Unfavorable) [http://www.nme.com/reviews/7215.htm link]
Last single = "You Get What You Give"
(1999)
This single = "Someday We'll Know"
(1999)
Next single = "Mother We Just Can't Get Enough"
(1999)
"Someday We'll Know" is a song by the New Radicals. Released on September 20, 1999, it was the second single off their album "Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too" and the follow-up to the smash "You Get What You Give". It is a midtempo ballad about lost love and regret, in which the singer asks a series of rhetorical questions and compares them to the end of his relationship, suggesting that love and breaking up proposes questions that will never be answered. Lyrics such as "I'm speeding by the place that I met you for the 97th time tonight" have led some to interpret the song as the account of an obsessive stalker.

The song was also covered by Mandy Moore and Jon Foreman on the "A Walk to Remember" soundtrack, by Hall & Oates on their 2003 album "Do It For Love" and live by Ronan Keating during his 2002 tour, "Destination Everywhere". The Hall & Oates version included a guest appearance by Todd Rundgren on guitar and vocals.

The B-side was "The Decency League", a cynical and bitter song about suppression and censorship of sex by Christian "decency leagues". Alexander sings, "The decency league, Dedicated to stopping all sexual behaviour/I'm merely trying to deprive all those of the reasonable use of their sexual organs". The track acts as a stark contrast to the A-side.

ingle track listing

# "Someday We'll Know" (Gregg Alexander, Danielle Brisebois, Debra Holland) - 3:39
# "The Decency League" (Alexander) - 3:30
# "Technicolor Lover" (Alexander) - 3:42
# "Someday We'll Know (Instrumental)" (Alexander, Brisebois, Holland) - 3:39

Music video

Directed by David Barnblatt, the video features the whole band playing in a damp warehouse showing them play the song with Gregg Alexander playing the guitar. It features scenes of people in different places; a laundromat, on a bus, a diner, and a pool. In one scene, there is a woman who feels alone stirring her coffee with no one to be with. At the end of the video, there is an empty seat at the back of bus.

External links

* [http://newradicals.17.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=38&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight= New Radicals lyrics] .
* [http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/n/new_radicals/someday_well_know_ver2_crd.htm "Someday We'll Know" chords]
* [http://newradicals.us NewRadicals.Us] . Unofficial forum covering New Radicals, Gregg Alexander and Danielle Brisebois.
* [http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/n/new_radicals/decency_league_crd.htm "The Decency League" chords]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8aCFYW5eUU The Official Music Video on YouTube]