Sam Kang, If I Don't Know

If I don’t know if I can… recognize your face anymore,
or say your name- for what it’s worth…
maybe we’re better off alone…

Didn’t think of you this morning…but I thought of you right now…
And if we lose it all for nothing…for a name I can’t pronounce…

I’m all out of words to say-
no trace of your name or face
Cause we live in a world of change
So tell me who you are
Cause it’s just too damn hard…

If I don’t know if I can… recognize my face anymore,
or say my name- for what it’s worth…
maybe we’re better off alone…

If I don’t know if I can… recognize your face anymore,
or say your name- for what it’s worth…
maybe we’re better off alone…




I spent ages trying to figure out this song. What it meant. I knew the writer didn't mean what I was thinking, he was saying one thing and I was hearing another.

I finally deciphered it, there's this person, this girl who the writer broke up with and he doesn't recognise her anymore. It's obviously not about her appearance, it's her personality. Who she is. Things have gone down and she's changed..they've changed. Maybe she scarred him, maybe it was the things they went through, the things she did to him, put him through. Maybe a huge amount of time's passed..point is, he doesn't know her anymore and now here she is. He's wondering if they should try..again. But he doesn't know her. Anymore.

And he's changed too, 'I don't know if I can recognise my face anymore.' Maybe we're better off alone.

He doesn't want to risk it either, 'lose it all for nothing.'


Now back to me.

All I could hear, by the time I meet you..that person I belong with. Will it be too late, will I have exhausted myself out too much to, recognise you anymore? Maybe we're better off alone.

It's haunting.

Maybe we're better off alone, and that's ok. It's good. It's hard for to accept that I might be better off..but it fits. It makes sense. To be alone. To be without you. It fits..it makes sense. Better off alone.