"You Don't Know How It Feels" | ||||
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Single by Tom Petty | ||||
from the album Wildflowers | ||||
B-side | "Girl on LSD" | |||
Released | November 7, 1994[1] | |||
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Length | 4:49 | |||
Label | Warner Bros. | |||
Songwriter(s) | Tom Petty | |||
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Tom Petty singles chronology | ||||
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Tom Petty singles chronology | ||||
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"You Don't Know How It Feels" is a song and the lead single from American musician Tom Petty's 1994 album, Wildflowers. The track features candid lyrics describing the songwriter's desire for personal and professional autonomy.[6] The single reached No. 1 on the US Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart, No. 3 on the Canadian RPM 100 Hit Tracks chart, and No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Petty's last top-40 hit in the US. An alternate version was posthumously released on June 26, 2020.[7] This version peaked at No. 54 on the iTunes chart.[8]
MTV, VH1, and many radio stations aired a censored version of "You Don't Know How It Feels," taking the word "roll" out of "let's roll another joint", as well as a version that played the word "joint" backwards. A version replacing the word "roll" with "hit" was also made.[9] The music video won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Male Video in 1995. The actress in the video is Raven Snow; she also appeared in several episodes of Zalman King's Red Shoe Diaries and the film Delta of Venus as lounge singer Leila.