Slightly Stoopid's "Nobody Knows" uses water imagery and repeated negation to capture longing and isolation. The narrator wants someone to transform them while feeling alone, with the refrain "nobody knows" emphasizing hidden pain and the struggle to be understood.
Searching for the one who wants to make you something better than you could. Or maybe one who wants to turn you into something that you should. And though it's easily assumed you'd be digging, it's even easier to know you've been waiting. And like a waterfall, tears come from your eyes. And while you ought to know when your well runs, well runs, —thinking that I want it, you know. Want me to get up in the early morning with that type of woman, make a man up in her eyes today. Won't you get to thinking that I'm down to be the one who's on your mind until your well is running dry. Oh, won't I know, won't I know. But while you're waiting and feeling alone, nobody knows. But while the love is all we need to hold on, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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