Someday We'll Know

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"Someday We'll Know"
Single by New Radicals
from the album Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too
Released	July 23, 1999
Format	CD
Recorded	???
Genre	Rock
Length	3:39
Label	MCA Records
Producer(s)	Gregg Alexander
Chart positions
#28 (US Adult Top 40) #48 (UK Singles Chart)
New Radicals singles chronology
"You Get What You Give" (1999)	"Someday We'll Know" (1999)	"Mother We Just Can't Get Enough" (1999)

"Someday We'll Know" is a song by the New Radicals. Released on July 23, 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 Jonathan 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.

[edit] Single track listing

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

[edit] Annotated lyrics

[edit] "Whatever happened to Amelia Earhart?"

On July 2, 1937 Amelia Earhart (her name is misspelled Emilia Earhart in the lyrics) and her navigator Fred Noonan got lost during their round-the-world flight on their way from Lae to Howland Island. They were never found, but some theories say she was captured (and later executed) by the Japanese.

[edit] "Who holds the stars up in the sky?"

The energy released from the stellar core of a star heats the stellar interior, producing the pressure that holds a star up. Of course, the reason the stars don't fall to earth is that they are far too distant to be significantly affected by the earth's gravitational field.

[edit] "Did the captain of the Titanic cry?"

According to eyewitnesses (although these reports are sometimes contradicting) Captain Edward J. Smith "walked calmly on to the bridge as it was being covered by the icy waters"[1]. Another witness saw him shooting himself. Either way, he did not cry.

[edit] "Why the sky is blue"

Main articles: Rayleigh scattering, Diffuse sky radiation

The sky is blue because molecules in the atmosphere preferentially scatter blue light.

[edit] "Why Samson loved Delilah"

See Samson and Delilah.

"because of her great beauty and charm" [2]

[edit] "Does anybody know the way to Atlantis?"

Main article: Atlantis

There are many hypotheses about the location of Atlantis. Plato, who was the first to mention the island, placed it somewhere outside the Pillars of Hercules (i.e. the Straits of Gibraltar). Other suggest the Mediterranean Sea as a more suitable location.

[edit] External links

• New-Radicals.com "Someday We'll Know" discography and B-side downloads.
• New Radicals lyricsl.
• "Someday We'll Know" chords
• NewRadicals.Us. Unofficial forum covering New Radicals, Gregg Alexander and Danielle Brisebois.
• "The Decency League" chords