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title: "Don't Know Much"

meaning: "Little Hug epistemology: don't know much about anything, idiot that knew it, books can't save me, so what, so what: who's in charge of darkness and light when everything is grey."

year: 2021
release: "Little Hug"
releaseType: "EP"

artist: "Scoobert Doobert"
artistId: "#scoobert"

credits: "Written, performed, and mixed by Luke Francis Walton. Mastered by Riley Knapp."

spotify: "https://open.spotify.com/album/08qm91rIDQEj86DoQWiNyB"
youtube: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVRJ5E4spXs"
apple: "https://music.apple.com/us/album/dont-know-much/1558296985?i=1558297086"
officialVideo: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCHW0_DCD6c"

themes: ["anxiety", "impostor syndrome", "Little Hug", "recovery", "humility", "philosophy", "Socratic irony"]

isrc: QZNWU2063474
isrcSource: soundexchange
lyrics: |
  No, I don't know that much about anything
  Yeah, I'm feeling stupid
  An idiot that knew it
  You wonder why I'm quiet

  No, I don't know that much about anything
  Is it frightening?
  Maybe
  I don't think books can save me
  You wonder if I'm crazy

  No, I don't know that much about anything
  So what
  So what
  So what
  So what
  So what
  So what
  So what
  Yeah

  Yeah
  Yeah I am always acting a fool
  Normally I'm fueled with anxiety
  Now and then I try to act cool
  Falling on my face
  Yeah, I am good at reading a room
  Learn to laugh it off with impunity
  Easier to say than do

  No, I don't know that much about anything
  Yeah, I'm feeling stupid
  An idiot that knew it
  You wonder why I'm quiet

  No, I don't know that much about anything
  Is it frightening?
  Maybe
  I don't think books can save me
  You wonder if I'm crazy

  So what
  So what
  So what
  So what
  So what
  So what
  So what
  Yeah

  No, I don't know that much about anything
  So what
  So what
  So what
  So what
  So what
  So what
  So what
  Yeah

  Yeah, I don't think I'll ever be right
  What the hell does that word mean anyway
  Yeah, who's in charge of darkness and light
  When everything is grey

  No, I don't know that much about anything
  Yeah, I'm feeling stupid
  An idiot that knew it
  You wonder why I'm quiet

  No, I don't know that much about anything
  Is it frightening?
  Maybe
  I don't think books can save me
  You wonder if I'm crazy

  So what
  So what
  So what
  So what
  So what
  So what
  So what
  Yeah

  No, I don't know that much about anything
  So what
  So what
  So what
  So what
  So what
  So what
  So what
  Yeah

  So what
  So what
  So what
  So what
  So what
  So what
  So what

  So what
  So what
  So what
  So what
  So what
  So what
  So what
  Yeah

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Track ten on [*Little Hug*](/albums/little-hug/) (**April 2021**), also a standalone single (**February 2, 2021**) ahead of the EP. Luke solo. Not a cover of the Linda Ronstadt / Aaron Neville ballad; same title phrase, different confession, with incompetence as identity rather than romance. [Official music video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCHW0_DCD6c).

The verses are a self-portrait of someone who pretended to know and has now gone quiet: *an idiot that knew it*, frightened, unconvinced that *books can save me*, with other people's diagnosis (*you wonder if I'm crazy*) hanging in the air. Socratic irony in pop form — the voice that once played expert now only knows that it doesn't know. The bridge names the coping for what it is, social intelligence as a survival skill (*good at reading a room / learn to laugh it off with impunity / easier to say than do*), and then opens onto the real question: *who's in charge of darkness and light / when everything is grey*. Not nihilism for sport, just moral certainty dissolving with no binary left to stand on. The *so what* stacks seven, eight, sixteen times, less defiance than surrender, a hook that refuses to learn and only repeats until it tires out.

It's the same doubt that runs through [*Derrida Makes a Différance*](/songs/derrida-makes-a-differance/) on [*Masks and Monsters*](/albums/masks-and-monsters/) and later [The Bent Stick](/writing/the-bent-stick/), and *an idiot that knew it* prefigures [*I'm an Idiot*](/songs/im-an-idiot/) and [*Who Am I Really Fooling Anyway*](/songs/who-am-i-really-fooling-anyway/). Late on *Little Hug*, doubt before the named grief of [*Debby*](/songs/debby/) and the comfort of [*A Little Hug*](/songs/a-little-hug/), and the opposite register from MMM's cartoon certainty.

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