Who Knows Who (song)

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Muse song
Name Who Knows Who
Album/single Uprising vinyl (2)
Length 3:24
Alternative titles Who Knows Who (feat. Mike Skinner)
First live performance Unknown
Latest live performance 5th September 2009 (riff)
Recorded 2008
Writer/composer Matthew Bellamy, Mike Skinner
Producer Unknown

Information

A collaborative song Muse recorded with The Streets in 2008.[1] The song features vocals by Mike Skinner with Muse providing the instrumental backing, using a "blues riff"[1] similar to that of Led Zeppelin's Heartbreaker. It was leaked on 3rd August 2008,[2] with the band commenting that they were "happy for it to be leaked around unofficially" as it was "not intended to be a serious release".[1] The song and the bands response to the leak were reported by the media the next day,[3] with Sean Michaels of The Guardian commenting that while "Skinner's lyrics are not always coherent, there's a real energy to Who Knows Who".[4]

"Who Knows Who" later became the B side to the vinyl Uprising single. The riff also appears towards the end of Uprising in a sped up form.[5]

Live

The Heartbreaker riff, which is very similar to that played in Who Knows Who, has been played since at least 2004. The Streets played a portion of Who Knows Who, without Muse, at the BBC Electric Proms on the 23rd October 2008.[6]

Lyrics

Money-men mill about Monday morning
Another new nothing and never nearer
Consumed at the cost that it's currently costing
I don't dare dig any deeper down
I don't have the head-space

I don't understand all the figures and facts
It'll spin around till I start panic attacking
But there's one curve ball that states my soul
Let me live out life and I'll stay control

Take that away, I'll never get dressed
Money-men milling in Monday morning
I will go spend or I will raise warning
I'm nothing but me and mine, so

Yeah, I've been gone
With who knows who
Doing God knows what
Don't turn it up
I'll return at any hour
Fuck all your law, fuck your power

Yeah, I've been gone
With who knows who
Doing God knows what
Don't turn it up
I'll return at any hour
Fuck all your law, fuck your power

My name's magic and it's mud
I do bad things but I can rob
They don't buy anything, they watch it, see
For their time is the commodity

The gap between art and artist grows
I never know why I ever wrote this prose
I write this rubbish but believe you me
I've just never been keen on tasting redness

But put the orange suit on, shackle my ankles
I couldn't take that, I'd be fucking ???? off

Yeah, I've been gone
With who knows who
Doing God knows what
Don't turn it up
I'll return at any hour
Fuck all your law, fuck your power

Yeah, I've been gone
With who knows who
Doing God knows what
Don't turn it up
I'll return at any hour
Fuck all your law, fuck your power

I don't promote no violence but
If you all got carted off
Boys will be boys, toys'll get tossed
Bang me up, right and rough
I'm not a people-beater but
If that law gets made up on me
Show me the cross and I'll take it on

I don't promote no violence but
If you all got carted off
Boys'll be boys, toys'll get tossed
Bang me up, right and rough
I'm not a people-beater but
If that law gets made up on me
Show me the cross and I'll take it on

(Now go low, Ha-ha-ha!)

Tell me what you want
Tell me what you want
Tell me what you want
(Stay on the floor!)
Tell me what you want

Tell me what you want
(????)
Tell me what you want
Tell me what you want
Tell me what you want
(?????)

Yeah, I've been gone
With who knows who
Doing God knows what
Don't turn it up
I'll return at any hour
Fuck all your law, fuck your power

Yeah, I've been gone
With who knows who
Doing God knows what
Don't turn it up
I'll return at any hour
Fuck all your law, fuck your power

References

  1. a b c Muse via KirkBot. (2008-08-04). Muse & the streets. Retrieved 2008-08-04 from board.muse.mu.
  2. Tom. (2008-08-03). Leak?. Retrieved 2008-08-04 from muselive.com.
  3. Alex Fletcher. (2008-08-04). Muse explain leaked Streets collaboration. Retrieved 2008-08-07 from digitalspy.co.uk.
  4. Sean Michaels. (2008-08-04). Muse happy with leaked Streets collaboration. Retrieved 2008-08-07 from guardian.co.uk.
  5. (2009-08-02). [Download]. digiRAMA. Retrieved 2009-08-03 from digirama.co.nz.
  6. Tom. (2008-10-24). The Streets Dabble with Who Knows Who. Retrieved 2008-10-24 from muselive.com.