All I Know

Album: Angel Clare (1973)
Charted: 9
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  • I bruise you
    You bruise me
    We both bruise too easily
    Too easily to let it show
    I love you and that's all I know

    All my plans
    Have fallen through
    All my plans depend on you
    Depend on you to help them grow
    I love you and that's all I know

    When the singer's gone
    Let the song go on

    But the ending always comes at last
    Endings always come too fast
    They come too fast
    But they pass too slow
    I love you and that's all I know

    When the singer's gone
    Let the song go on
    It's a fine line between the darkness and the dawn
    They say in the darkest night, there's a light beyond

    But the ending always comes at last
    Endings always come too fast
    They come too fast
    But they pass too slow
    I love you and that's all I know

    That's all I know
    That's all I know Writer/s: JIMMY WEBB
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Royalty Network, Songtrust Ave, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 7

  • Leon's Carney from NmGil from Montana
    Who plays piano on the song. Terrific embellishments. Someone from the Wrecking Crew?

    Larry Knechtel, who also played the piano on Bridge Over Troubled Water
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn this day in 1973 {September 30th} "All I Know" by Art Garfunkel peaked at #1 {for 4 weeks} on Billboard's Easy Listening chart...
    "All I Know" reached #9 on Billboard's Top 100 chart...
    Between 1973 and 2002 the Queens, NY native, as a solo artist, had sixteen records on the Easy Listening/Adult Contemporary chart, nine made the Top 10 with five reaching #1, the above "All I Know", "I Only Have Eyes For You" for one week in October of 1975, "My Little Town {with Paul Simon} for one week in November of 1975, "Break Away" for one week in February of 1976, and "Wonderful World" {with Paul Simon and James Taylor} for five weeks in February of 1978...
    Arthur Ira Garfunkel celebrates his 80th birthday in two months on November 5th, 2021...
    And from the 'For What It's Worth' department, the remainder of the Easy Listening Top 10 on September 30th, 1973:
    At #2. "I'm Coming Home" by Johnny Mathis
    #3. "Half Breed" by Cher
    #4. "My Maria" by B.W. Stevenson
    #5. "Loves Me Like A Rock" by Paul Simon
    #6. "Paper Roses" by Marie Osmond
    #7. "Let Me In" by The Osmonds
    #8. "Ashes To Ashes" by The Fifth Dimension
    #9. "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" by Bob Dylan
    #10. "In The Midnight Hour" by Cross Country
  • Randy H from MichiganShe called Jimmys song "silly" Poor guy spilled his heart out for her. Proof that women have no damn soul!
  • Gil from MontanaWho plays piano on the song. Terrific embellishments. Someone from the Wrecking Crew?
  • Tom from UsaThe piano version of this song was played in background at the ending of an episode of Boy Meets World when Cory Matthews and Topanga Lawrence (the two main TV characters) broke up. I am also using it as one of the signature songs to an audio book I am making about my relationship with a girl that I never had the chance to marry. The "I bruise you, you bruise me..." described us perfectly. The chorus lyric "...They i.e., break-ups) come too fast but they pass so slow" was so true with her. And it was over 45 years ago!
  • Maggie from West Palm BeachArt Garfunkel is my number 1 go to singer. I play his songs off and on every day. Art has an extensive list of recordings and he is still performing.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn September 9th 1973 Art Garfunkel's debut solo record, "All I Know", entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #79; and on November 4th, 1973 it peaked at #9 {for 1 week} and spent 14 weeks on the Top 100...
    And on September 30th, 1973 it reached #1 {for 4 weeks} on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Tracks chart...
    Between 1973 and 1981 he had seven Top 100 records; his next biggest hit was a covered version of the 1934 standard "I Only Have Eyes for You", which peaked at #18 in 1975 and also spent 18 weeks on the Top 100...
    The week "All I Know" entered the Top 100 at #79; his old buddy, Paul Simon, was at #4 with "Loves Me Like A Rock"...
    Arthur Ira Garfunkel will celebrate his 73rd birthday in two months on November 5th {2014}.
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