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.
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