I Thought I Knew It All
Youthanasia
1994
Duration: 3:44
Track number: 10
Writers
Lyrics by: Dave Mustaine
Music by: Dave Mustaine, Marty Friedman
Theme
A song reflecting on the painful realization that youthful arrogance and overconfidence were misplaced. The narrator, facing a difficult outcome, admits that they did not have life figured out, acknowledging the difference between theoretical knowledge and real-world experience and humility.
Lyrics
Somewhere there's a reason
why things go like they do
somewhere there's a reason
why somethings just fall through
we don't always see them
for what they really are
but i know there's a reason
just can't see it from this far
Maybe i don't like it, but i have no choice
i know that somewhere, someone hears my voice
I thought i knew it all
i thought i had it made
how could it end this way?
i thought i knew
Somewhere there's a reason
why things don't go my way
somewhere there's a reason
that i cannot explain
just like the change of season
just may not be my turn
but i know there's a reason
the lesson's mine to learn
Maybe i don't like it, but i have no choice
i know that somewhere, someone hears my voice
I thought i knew it all
i thought i had it made
how could it end this way?
i thought i knew
I thought i knew it all
i thought i had it made
how could it end this way?
i thought i knew
