Home demo version
I remember ever since I
Well you would drink a potion and I'd just
Remember your
Remember first thing if I'd just
I don't know girl
I don't know girl
Please don't do this
I want you
Baby I don't know
I don't know
Yeah every day I wake up in the morning and
I don't know
I don't know
Baby I don't know
Yeah every day I wake up in the morning and
I don't know
I remember baby
Oh I'm sorry but
Even if I don't
I'm a good man
I'll keep wishing, I'll keep hoping, babe
I'll keep searching
For you, to remember
Baby I don't know
Baby I don't know
Every day when I wake up in the morning and
I don't know
I don't know
I DON'T KNOW is a song written by Bruce Springsteen. It remains officially unreleased and apparently it was not recorded in studio.
The above lyrics are for a demo take of I DON'T KNOW. It was recorded solo on acoustic guitar at Springsteen's home in Holmdel, NJ, sometime between September and December 1979.
Springsteen recorded many demos at his home around the time The River was being cut in studio. These home demos were not professionally recorded; it seems that Springsteen used a regular cassette recorder. They were just song fragments, and there is much stopping and starting heard as Springsteen records bits and pieces, manually stops the recorder, and then returns sometime later to add more ideas.
This home demo version of I DON'T KNOW can be found on The Definitive River Outtakes Collection Volume 1 (E. St. Records) [disc 1, track 04] bootleg.
Thanks Jake (ol'catfishinthelake at BTX and Greasy Lake) for the lyrics help.
List of available versions of I DON'T KNOW on this website:
I DON'T KNOW [Home demo version]