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 TITLE: I Know (feat. Yasmine) ARTIST: Evangeline Wolfe WRITERS: Evangeline Wolfe, Yasmine Kiambang, & Moses Wolfe LENGTH: 4:08 GENRE: Folk PRODUCER: Reza Vranitzky LABEL: FREEDOM RELEASED: June 20th, 2014 From the Alubm: Stay Strong, Drift On (Released on: 2/23/14)
The tenth song on Evangeline's debut album, "I Know," seems to almost be a sequel to her eighth song, "A Secret My Heart Can't Keep." Both of the songs are duets - "A Secret My Heart Can't Keep" featured Carmen Grant while "I Know" features indie vocalist Yasmine - and both of them have to do with somebody not being able to admit that they're in love with somebody else. While in "A Secret My Heart Can't Keep," it was Evangeline (or Carmen Grant) that was too shy or nervous to admit that she was in love with this other person, in "I Know," it seems that the women have the knowledge, and they're waiting for their significant others to reveal their true feelings. Like many of Evangeline's songs so far, she seems to be trying to use her music to discover the way that her life could have gone if she had made different choices or lived in different universes - like in "Out," when she channeled her inner western movie star - so this song could easily be Evangeline asking, "What if the roles in that situation were reversed, and he was too nervous to tell me that he was in love with me rather than the other way around?"
Lyrically, the songs seem very much the same, almost as if they were talking about the same situation. Sound-wise, they also sound very similar, except for "A Secret My Heart Can't Keep" has a slightly country sound, while "I Know" is very distinctly folk. In both of the songs, they sing about how their smile gives it away, and how no matter how much they try to hide it, it's exceedingly obvious the other person and everybody around them that they're very much in love with each other. Evangeline continues to sing, talking about how, when he sends a letter, what he doesn't write "on that bottom line," she knows that even just the letter means that he loves her. Of course, what she meant by what he doesn't write on the bottom line is "Love, [his name]." Evangeline's voice comes in the third verse, singing about how she's glad that he's not fully speaking his emotions, because if he did, she could misinterpret them. Yasmine agrees with her in the next line, saying that she would rather believe what she feels in her heart rather than what actually may be going on in reality. Focusing on those four lines could really possibly put a damper on the entire song as the listener realizes that maybe - in fact - this isn't a sequel to "A Secret My Heart Can't Keep," but actually a foil to it, asking, "What if the person who is in love with somebody else starts becoming obsessive and thinking that the other person loves them and over-analyzing every little thing that person does, thinking that that all means that they love them?" Maybe that was Evangeline, Yasmine, and Evangeline's father - Moses' - intention of writing the song, or maybe not. It seems a little too dark for an Evangeline song, but it is a possibility. The song ends with the man leaving her house, giving her a hug and kiss, but still not saying that he loves her. As he leaves, the woman proclaims that she always knew that he loved her and that she loves him, too. The songs ends there, giving it a happy feeling for the people who want to believe that it's truly a love song to just a shy guy who's too afraid to admit that he's in love with her - or an eerie, uncomfortable feeling to anybody who thinks that maybe the speaker in the song is crazy and obsessive. Either way, it's still a good duet between two amazing indie singers.
EvangelineYasmineBothIt's in our hello
And the way his smile glows
And it's in our goodbyes
And the tear in his eyes
And all in between
When he's looking at me
I know
I know
I know what he doesn't say
And it shimmers through
In the things that he can do
When he writes me a note
And he sends it by post
And what he might not sign
On that bottom line
I know
I know
I know what he doesn't say
Words are not needed
The more my ears could be mislead
My heart can hear instead of
What goes unsaid
He'll leave me with this
A hug and a kiss
Those three words he can't say
But he'll never be blue
Because I always knew
And I know
I know
I know and I love him, tooSOUNDS LIKE:
The Be Good Tanyas - The Littlest Birds
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