I Knew from Wicked Din by ChameleouS

Mac’s Songwriting Notes: I wrote I Knew in late 2006 as a love song rocker that was purposely a throwback to arena rock days. I actually made the lyrics a little cheesy to fit the genre and to make my first wife April laugh. To my surprise at the time, she liked it quite a bit and I didn’t get a single chuckle that I can remember. April was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer a few months after I wrote I Knew, and she died from it in 2009. Some of the lyrics wound up having a tiny bit more substance to them afterwards. Not as any kind of ode to her; I doubt I’ll ever record the songs that I’ve written about her passing. It just felt like the song needed to grow up a little bit. That said, there are still several really cheesy moments throughout the lyrics, and even some parts that I re-wrote I didn’t have the heart to change entirely. For example, I know I wrote this song in late 2006 because I wrote it shortly after we saw Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby at the movies. The character Chip cracked me up, and the line “the field mouse is fast, but the owl sees at night” stuck in my head. It made its way nearly verbatim into the original lyrics of the 2nd verse, and I changed it to “We delve through darkest past / where the fox, she sees, at night.” A ‘she fox’ lyric is actually even cheesier than the original, but I couldn’t leave it so obvious a nod to that wonderfully cheesy 2006 movie. Now you know the truth of this serious-sounding rocker, and as that great prognosticator of knowledge G.I. Joe used to say, “knowing is half the battle!”

ChameleouS is a six-piece rock band from Tennessee whose music blends modern classic rock, Southern psychedelia, and alt-country roots into something both familiar and uniquely their own. True to their name, they shift fluidly through musical colors — each song a new sonic landscape shaped by the band's many influences, decades of songwriting and a shared passion for creating something special.

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