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Knowledge

Release date: 20th April 1990

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'Knowledge' by Green Day is a 1990 track from the album '1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours'. The lyrics frame growing frustration as circumstances get tougher, with the future described as suddenly cramped. In the chorus, the speaker leans into a stubborn, almost comic insistence that all they know is that they do not know, looping back on the same idea and ending on the drawn-out refrain of ignorance. The overall tone is uneasy and defiant, a confession delivered with the voice of someone determined to keep going anyway.

"Knowledge" is a track by Green Day, from the album 1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours, released 20th April 1990. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 17 articles about Green Day.

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Lyrics

Knowledge

[Verse 1]

I know things are getting tougher

When you can't get the top off the bottom of the barrel

Wide open road of my future now

It's looking fucking narrow

[Chorus]

All I know is that I don't know

All I know is that I don't know nothing

All I know is that I don't know

All I know is that I don't know nothing

[Verse 2]

We get told to decide

Just like, as if, I'm not going to change my mind

[Chorus]

All I know is that I don't know

All I know is that I don't know nothing

All I know is that I don't know

All I know is that I don't know nothing...hey!

[Bridge]

Whatcha gonna do with yourself?

Boy, you better make up your mind

Whatcha gonna do with yourself?

You're running out of time

[Chorus]

All I know is that I don't know

All I know is that I don't know nothing

All I know is that I don't know

All I know is that I don't know nothing

[Chorus]

All I know is that I don't know

All I know is that I don't know nothing

All I know is that I don't know

All I know is that I don't know nothing

And that's fine

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From 1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours

1990
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1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours
1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours
Green Day
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1990
  1. —Knowledge
  2. —Paper Lanterns
  3. —Why Do You Want Him?
  4. —Don't Leave Me
  5. —At the Library
  6. —Going to Pasalacqua
  7. —409 in Your Coffeemaker
  8. —I Was There
  9. —1,000 Hours
  10. —16
  11. —Dry Ice
  12. —Green Day
  13. —Only of You
  14. —Rest
  15. —The One I Want
  16. —Disappearing Boy
  17. —The Judge's Daughter
  18. —Road to Acceptance
  19. —I Want to Be Alone

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