The Red Clay Strays - If I Didn't Know You Lyrics

The Red Clay Strays Lyrics

"If I Didn't Know You"

You caught me at a crossroads, you caught me in the nick of time
On the ledge with one foot hanging, just waiting for a sign
I was down and out, running with the wrong crowd
I was walking through every wrong door
I can't imagine all the trouble I'd be if you never made me yours

If I didn't know you
I wouldn't know how to love
I wouldn't know what it feels like
To be someone's only one
If I never saw your eyes
It's like I'd never seen the sun
What would I do
If I didn't know you?

Some people never make it, trying to make it on their own
And every man's just an island until a good woman calls him home
Well, you found me lost at sea, tossed and turned around
Held on through the ebb and flow, yeah, you anchored me down

And if I didn't know you
I wouldn't know how to love
I wouldn't know what it feels like
To be someone's only one
And if I'd never seen your eyes
It's like I'd never seen the sun
What would I do
If I didn't know you?

I can't see beyond tomorrow
I can't change my yesterdays
Well, sometimes I just wonder who I'd be today

If I didn't know you
I wouldn't know how to love
I wouldn't know what it feels like
To be someone's only one
And if I never saw your eyes
It's like I'd never seen the sun
What would I do
If I didn't know you?

Oh, what would I do
If I didn't know you?

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Writer(s): Natalie Hemby, Andrew Gerald Nix

The Red Clay Strays say about "If I Didn't Know You" in an Instagram post on the 4th of February, 2026, "Hard to believe this'll be our first love song released since 'Wondering Why'. Our next single drops Thursday, February 12th, with a kick*ss music video starring our buddy Matt Rife. Gonna be a good Valentine's this year." The video was directed by Matthew Coleman and features comedian Matt Rife alongside fitness influencer Mariah Morse.

Drew Nix wrote wrote this song about his wife. The band shared on Instagram on the 10th of February, 2026, "We immediately thought it was one of Drew's best songs (keep in mind he co-wrote 'Wondering Why'). Nat and Drew poured their hearts into it and we're psyched to drop it Thursday!" Nix, The Red Clay Strays guitarist, said, "One day, I was thinking about how thankful I am to have someone who made me want to, as Johnny Cash put it, 'walk the line'. I was quite the heathen before my calling, and some of those qualities stayed with me until my wife, Laurie Anne Nix – who was my fiancée at the time – made me want to become a better man. She had high expectations of what her husband should be, and I finally decided to grow up. I don't know what my life would look like if I'd never known her, and honestly, I never want to find out."

album: "Grateful" (2026)

The Red Clay Strays - Grateful album cover

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