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"You Don't Know How It Feels" is a song and the lead single from Tom Petty's 1994 album, Wildflowers. The track features candid lyrics describing the songwriter's desire for personal and professional autonomy.[4]
The single reached No. 1 on the US BillboardAlbum Rock Tracks chart, No. 3 on the Canadian RPM Top Singles chart, and No. 13 on the BillboardHot 100, becoming Petty's last top-40 hit in the US. An alternate version was posthumously released on June 26, 2020.[5] This version peaked at No. 54 on the iTunes chart.[6]
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.[7] The music video won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Male Video in 1995. The girl 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.
Petty originally intended the B-side of the single, "Girl on LSD", to appear on Wildflowers, but Warner Bros. refused because it was too controversial.[4] In the song Petty sings about being in love with multiple girls on different drugs: marijuana, cocaine, LSD, beer, crystal meth, china white (a slang term for heroin) and coffee. In the chorus Petty states: "Through ecstasy, crystal meth and glue/I found no drug compares to you/all these pills, all this weed/I dunno just what I need."
^"Chart Log UK 1994–2010 > Rodney P. – The Pussycat Dolls". zobbel.de. Retrieved December 10, 2016. N.B. This site displays 'uncompressed' (no exclusion rules applied) UK singles chart peaks between November 1994 and May 2001. "You Don't Know How It Feels" peaked at No. 91 on the 'compressed' chart, with exclusion rules applied.