He Knows You Know

"He Knows You Know" is a song by the British neo-progressive rock band Marillion. It was their second single, with "Charting the Single" as the B-side. It was released from their first album, Script for a Jester's Tear, and peaked at number 35 on the UK Singles Chart. The song's theme is drug abuse, and alludes particularly to intravenous drug use. In a live situation lead vocalist Fish would often introduce it as "The Drug Song" and that it was inspired by drug use while working at the Job/Benefits centre in Aylesbury where Fish was working.

As with all Marillion songs during this period, the lyrics were written by Fish. The music video for this song features Fish struggling in a straitjacket having visions of a Jackson's Chameleon as featured on the album artwork of Marillion's first three albums.

"He Knows You Know" was the only 12-inch single from Marillion's first three albums that was never produced as a picture disk.^[1] The song was supposed to be performed live on Top Of The Pops in 1983 but as Fish explains on the Recital of the Script concert this never happened, however a live on TV version was later recorded for the BBC Oxford Road Show.

A CD replica of the single was also part of a collectors box-set released in July 2000 which contained Marillion's first twelve singles and was re-issued as a 3-CD set in 2009 (see The Singles '82-'88).

Track listing 7" version

Side A

"He Knows You Know" (single edit) – 3:33

Side B

"Charting the Single" – 4:53

Track listing 12" version

Side A

"He Knows You Know" (album version) – 5:07

Side B

"He Knows You Know" (single edit) – 3:33
"Charting the Single" – 4:53

Personnel

Fish – vocals
Steve Rothery - guitars
Mark Kelly - keyboards
Pete Trewavas - bass
Mick Pointer - drums

References

↑ marillion.com | MUSIC - Discography - Script for a Jester's Tear | The Official Marillion Website

External links

Music video on YouTube

Marillion

Steve Rothery Mark Kelly Pete Trewavas Ian Mosley Steve 'h' Hogarth Mick Pointer Brian Jelliman Doug 'Rastus' Irvine Fish Diz Minnett Andy Ward John 'Martyr' Marter Jonathan Mover

Studio albums	Script for a Jester's Tear Fugazi Misplaced Childhood Clutching at Straws Seasons End Holidays in Eden Brave Afraid of Sunlight This Strange Engine Radiation marillion.com Anoraknophobia Marbles Somewhere Else Happiness Is the Road Less Is More Sounds That Can't Be Made Fuck Everyone and Run (F E A R)

Compilations	Brief Encounter B'Sides Themselves A Singles Collection The Best of Both Worlds The Best of Marillion The Singles '82–88' The Singles '89-'95

Live albums	Real to Reel The Thieving Magpie Made Again Unplugged at the Walls Anorak in the UK Marbles Live Early Stages Live from Loreley Recital of the Script

Singles	"Market Square Heroes" "He Knows You Know" "Garden Party" "Punch and Judy" "Assassing" "Kayleigh" "Lavender" "Heart Of Lothian" "Lady Nina" "Welcome to the Garden Party" "Incommunicado" "Sugar Mice" "Warm Wet Circles" "Freaks (Live)" "Hooks in You" "The Uninvited Guest" "Easter" "Cover My Eyes (Pain and Heaven)" "No One Can" "Dry Land" "Sympathy" "No One Can" (1992) "The Great Escape" "The Hollow Man" "Alone Again in the Lap of Luxury" "Beautiful" "Man of a Thousand Faces" "80 Days" "These Chains" "Between You and Me"/"Map of the World" "You're Gone" "Don't Hurt Yourself" "The Damage" (Live) "See It Like a Baby" "Thankyou Whoever You Are"/"Most Toys" "Carol of the Bells"

Related articles	Marillion discography Brave, the Film

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