Everything We Know

Song written by Ricky and Marty Wilde. Third track of the album Kim Wilde.

Live performances

‘Everything We Know’ was performed live during the Debut Tour in 1982 only.

Marty about ‘Everything We Know’

This was written while we were up in a hotel in Scotland. Rick had a reggae chord sequence and melody and it sounded great, so everything fitted in pretty quickly, Rick also came up with the title. The kind of song we wanted to make is…. If you were on a beach somewhere nice on holiday and heard the track while you were drinking something or other and watching the sun go down… well, it was that sort of feeling. A kind of lazy reggae summer song. (1)

Interview source

(1) Kim Wilde Fanclub Introductory Magazine, 1981


Lyrics

Don’t bring your gun ’round here
Don’t need you mouthing off your fear
It touches all you can build a wall
We all have tasted tears

Everything we know
Everything we know
Everything we know
Everywhere we go

We walked along the beach
Once lovers now we’re out of reach
Windy skies, they kissed me goodbye
It takes experience to teach

Everything we know
Everything we know
Everything we know
Everywhere we go

Nobody laughed today
I went to watch the children play
Their smiles and mine were frozen in time
I’ll just remember them that way

Everything we know
Everything we know
Everything we know
Everywhere we go