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Nolan Randall playing the background guitar of Two Door Cinema Club’s “What You Know” from their 2010 album Tourist History for Kitsune Records.

Words and music by Alex Trimble, Kevin Baird, and Sam Halliday

In a few weeks I will get time
To realize it's right before my eyes
And I can take it if it's what I want to do
I am leaving and this is starting to feel like
It's right before my eyes
And I can taste it
It's my sweet beginning

And I can tell just what you want
You don't want to be alone
You don't want to be alone
And I can't say it's what you know
But you've known it the whole time
Yeah, you've known it the whole time

Maybe next year I'll have no time
To think about the questions to address
Am I the one to try to stop the fire?
I wouldn't test you I'm not the best you could have attained
Why try anything?
I will get there
Just remember I know

And I can tell just what you want
You don't want to be alone
You don't want to be alone
And I can't say it's what you know
But you've known it the whole time
Yeah, you've known it the whole time

And I can tell just what you want
You don't want to be alone
You don't want to be alone
And I can't say it's what you know
But you've known it the whole time
Yeah, you've known it the whole time

*Song Facts*

"What You Know" is a song by Northern Irish band Two Door Cinema Club from their 2010 debut studio album Tourist History. It was released as a single on February 7, 2011 as the album's fifth and final single. The song was written by Alex Trimble, Kevin Baird, and Sam Halliday and was produced by Eliot James. The song peaked at number 64 on the UK Singles Chart. "What You Know" was used for the 2012 Microsoft Outlook.com online adverts.

The music video for "What You Know" premiered on January 11, 2011. The video was directed by Lope Serrano of CANADA and features various Spanish dancers.

The song was featured on Telkomsel Loop TV commercials in Indonesia starting on July 2014, followed by Indomie instant noodles to promote two new flavours from new Kuliner Indonesia range, Dendeng Balado and Soto Lamongan, in September that year.

Singer/guitarist Alex Trimble explained the song's meaning to Spinner: "The song was written about touring... the lifestyle that we lead and the people that we left behind, through the fragility of our business that we're in. It's so fickle and you don't know where you're going to be in a few years time, but yet you're giving up so much to be in this position."

The video was by Lope Serrano of the Spanish Production Company CANADA and features the band, some lovely ladies, dancers dancing in time to the song's rhythm and a bathtub. Trimble explained to Spinner that as the "song is pretty heavy, a light-hearted video seemed more appropriate." He continued: "We had seen these directors, CANADA, that directed a few videos for El Guincho and Scissor Sisters and we loved their style and what they were doing. So we got in touch and they came up with this concept. They always have this vintage style that they shot with so we told them that we wanted girls and dancers in the video. That's pretty much all we said to them. Very, very pleased with the outcome."

Trimble wanted this song to be the first single, but the band's record label refused, saying it wasn't good enough. He told NME: "Every time we came around to releasing a single, I wanted it to be that song and eventually I got my way - and it ended up being our biggest single, so I feel kind of smug." (It was actually their second biggest single at that point: their debut song, "Something Good Can Work," peaked at #56 on the UK Charts, while this climbed to #64.)

Bassist Kevin Baird recalled: "I think I remember playing it to our publishing company for the first time, and
I think they cried when they heard it or something, I seem to remember. And it had the most terrible name; I think it was originally called 'Lip Nip' or something - something terrible that was nothing to do with the song, and we finally renamed it and reworked it, and it turned out pretty good, I think."

Tourist History is the debut studio album by Northern Irish indie rock band Two Door Cinema Club. It was released on February 17, 2010 by Kitsuné. The album is named for the reputation of the band's hometown, Bangor, as a tourist attraction.

Tourist History won the Choice Music Prize for the 2010 Irish Album of the Year. The band said it was the first award they had ever won and donated the €10,000 prize money to charity.

The band recorded the album at Eastcote Studios in London with Eliot James in July 2009, and was based in a studio adjacent to Duran Duran. The album was mixed at Phillipe Zdar's newly built studio, Motorbass. Two Door Cinema Club were the second band to use Zdar's studio, the first being Phoenix (who recorded the Grammy Award-winning album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix).

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