ALICIA KEYS - YOU DON'T KNOW MY NAME

YOU DON'T KNOW MY NAME

ALICIA KEYS

SONGWRITERS: ALICIA KEYS; HAROLD LILLY; J.R. BAILEY; KANYE WEST & MELVIN KENT

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: THE DIARY OF ALICIA KEYS

LABEL: J. RECORDS

GENRE: R & B

YEAR: 2003

 

                Alicia Augello Cook (born January 25, 1981), known professionally as Alicia Keys, is an American singer-songwriter. A classically-trained pianist, Keys began composing songs by age 12 and was signed at 15 years old by Columbia Records. After disputes with the label, she signed with Arista Records, and later released her debut album, Songs in A Minor, with J Records in 2001. The album was critically and commercially successful, producing her first Billboard Hot 100 number-one single "Fallin'" and selling over 16 million copies worldwide. The album earned Keys five Grammy Awards in 2002. Her second album, The Diary of Alicia Keys (2003), was also a critical and commercial success, spawning successful singles "You Don't Know My Name", "If I Ain't Got You", and "Diary", and selling eight million copies worldwide. The album garnered her an additional four Grammy Awards. Her duet "My Boo" with Usher became her second number-one single in 2004. Keys released her first live album, Unplugged (2005), and became the first woman to have an MTV Unplugged album debut at number one.

                Her third album, As I Am (2007), produced the Hot 100 number-one single "No One", selling 7 million copies worldwide and earning an additional three Grammy Awards. In 2007, Keys made her film debut in the action-thriller film Smokin' Aces. She, along with Jack White, recorded "Another Way to Die" (the title song to the 22nd official James Bond film, Quantum of Solace). Her fourth album, The Element of Freedom (2009), became her first chart-topping album in the UK, and sold 4 million copies worldwide. In 2009, Keys also collaborated with Jay Z on "Empire State of Mind", which became her fourth number-one single and won the Grammy Award for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration. Girl on Fire (2012) was her fifth Billboard 200 topping album, spawning the successful title track, and won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Album. In 2013, VH1 Storytellers was released as her second live album. Her sixth studio album, Here (2016), became her seventh US R&B/Hip-Hop chart-topping album. Her seventh studio album, Alicia, was released on September 18, 2020.

               Keys has received numerous accolades in her career, including 15 competitive Grammy Awards, 17 NAACP Image Awards, 12 ASCAP Awards, and an award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame and National Music Publishers Association. She has sold over 50 million albums and 40 million singles worldwide and was named by Billboard the top R&B artist of the 2000s decade. She placed tenth on their list of Top 50 R&B/Hip-Hop Artists of the Past 25 Years. VH1 included her on their 100 Greatest Artists of All Time and 100 Greatest Women in Music lists, while Time has named her in their 100 list of most influential people in 2005 and 2017. Keys is also acclaimed for her humanitarian work, philanthropy and activism; she co-founded and serves as the Global Ambassador of the nonprofit HIV/AIDS-fighting organization Keep a Child Alive.

             "You Don't Know My Name" is a song by American singer-songwriter Alicia Keys from her second studio album, The Diary of Alicia Keys. Written by Keys, Kanye West and Harold Lilly, and produced by Keys and West, the track was released as the album's lead single in November 2003. It contains a sample from the 1975 song "Let Me Prove My Love to You", written by J. R. Bailey, Mel Kent and Ken Williams and performed by The Main Ingredient. "I Wanna Know Your Name" by The Intruders.

                The song became Keys' third top ten hit in the United States, peaking at number three on the Billboard Hot 100, as well as topping the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs for eight consecutive weeks, her first Top 10 single in both charts since 2002's "A Woman's Worth". Additionally, the song won a Grammy Award for Best R&B Song and a Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul Single, Female. "You Don't Know My Name" was sampled on rapper Lil Wayne's 2008 song "Comfortable" featuring Babyface, produced by West. Blender magazine placed the song at number thirty-seven on its list of "The 100 Best Songs of 2004".

Baby, baby, baby, from the day I saw you

I really, really wanted to catch your eye

There's somethin' special 'bout you,

I must really thank you

'Cause not a lot of guys are worth my time,

Ooh, baby, baby, baby,

it's gettin' kinda crazy 'Cause you are takin' over my mind

 

And it feels like ooh...

But you don't know my name

I swear it feels like ooh...

But you don't know my name

Round and round we go Will you ever know

 

Oh, baby, baby, baby,

I see us on a first date

You're doin' everything that makes me smile

And when we had our first kiss,

it happened on a Thursday And ooh,

it set my soul on fire Ooh,

Oh baby, baby, baby,

I can't wait for the first time My imagination's runnin' wild

 

It feels like ooh...

But you don't know my name

And I swear it baby, It feels like ooh...

But you don't know my name

Round and round we go Will you ever know

 

I'm sayin' He don't even know

what he's doin' to me

I'm feelin' all crazy inside

I'm feelin' like, ow, ooh...ooh...

Do nothin' I've ever done For anyone's attention

Take notice of what's in front of you

'Cause did I mention you're 'bout to miss a good thing

 

And you'll never know how good it feels

To have all of my affection

And you'll never get a chance to experience

My lovin' 'cause my lovin' Feels like ooh...

But you don't know my name,

mmm Round and round we go

And i swear it feels like ooh....

But you don't know my name

Round and round we go (Oh) Will you ever really know

 

Will you ever know it No,

no, no, no, no,

Will you ever know it

 

[Talking]

I might have to just go ahead

and call this boy ....

Hello Can I speak Michael

Oh, hey, how you doin' Uh,

I feel kinda silly doin' this But uh,

this is the waitress from the coffee house

on 39th and Innis

You know the one with the braids, yeah

Well I see you on Wednesdays all the time

You come in every Wednesday

on your lunch break,

you always order the special

with the hot chocolate

My manager be trippin' and stuff talkin' 'bout

we gotta use the water

But I always use some milk and cream for you

'cause

I think you're kinda sweet

Anyway you always got on some fly blue suit,

mmm Your cuff links are shinin' all bright

So what you do

Oh, word Yeah, that's interesting

Look, man,

I mean I don't wanna waste your time

but I know girls don't usually do this

But I was wondering if maybe we could get together

outside the restaurant one day

You know 'cause I do look a lot different

outside my work clothes

I mean

we could just go across the street to the park

right here Wait, hold up,

my-my cell phone breakin' up, hold up

Can you hear me now, yeah

So what day did you say Oh, Thursday's perfect

 

You're feeling like ooh...

But you don't know my name

Round and round we go (Baby)

Will you ever really know (Baby, I swear) It's like ooh...

But you don't know my name

Round and round we go (No, no, no)

Will you ever really know And it's feel like ooh...

But you don't know my name

Round and round we go

(And I swear on my mother and father)

Will you ever really know It feels like ooh,

Ooh (x23)

But you don't know my name

Round and round we go,

will you ever really know.