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.

1 Single track listing
2 Music video
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Single 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

[edit] 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, we see a woman who feels alone stirring her coffee with no one to be with. At the end of the video, we are left with an empty seat at the back of bus.