Song · Shinedown
“If You Only Knew” by Shinedown
From the album The Sound of Madness (2008)
“If You Only Knew” by Shinedown appears on 15 radio countdowns from 14 stations between 2009 and 2010. It was first released in 2008 on the album The Sound of Madness. Its best result is #1 on the WVBR Top 93 of 2009. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #64 alternative song of 2009.
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Brent Smith had sworn he'd never write a love song, as he told The Oklahoman, and "If You Only Knew", from Shinedown's 2008 album The Sound of Madness, is where he broke his word. He came around once he fell for an old friend he'd reconnected with. The song is about her, his then-fiancée, written when she was pregnant with their child, and Smith called it the band's first ballad.
It was the album's fourth single, following "Sound of Madness". Smith wrote it with Dave Bassett, Rob Cavallo produced, and Chris Lord-Alge and Doug McKean mixed it. The video premiered in October 2009, ABC used it to promote the daytime drama One Life to Live, and the RIAA certified it platinum.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
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