Here is this week’s song off my iPod.

Queens of the Stone Age - No One KnowsQueens of the Stone Age is a rock band from Palm Desert, California. The band originally formed under the name of Gamma Ray in 1997. The members of the band are Josh Homme (vocals, guitar), Troy Van Leeuwen (guitar), Michael Shuman (bass), Joey Castillo (drums), and Dean Fertita (keyboards) who joined after the death of Natasha Shneider from cancer. Foo Fighters frontman and former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl joined the group in late 2001 and recorded on “Songs for the Deaf”. Grohl left the group at the end 2002 to pursue his own projects. The group’s music has been described as power metal but incorporates a variety of styles.

The group has released five studio albums since 1998 with a new album to be released this year. The group’s most successful album was “Songs for the Deaf” which was released in 2002. That album is certified gold in the US (platinum in the UK and Canada) and has reached over 1 million copies sold. The single “No One Knows” reached number 1 on the Billboard US Modern Rock chart and just missed getting into the Billboard Top 40. The group has had four Grammy nominations for Best Hard Rock Performance including for “No One Knows”.

No One Knows
We get some rules to follow
That and this
These and those
No one knows

We get these pills to swallow
How they stick
In your throat
Taste like gold

Oh, what you do to me
No one knows

And I realize you’re mine
Indeed a fool am I
And I realize you’re mine
Indeed a fool am I

I journey through the desert
Of the mind
With no hope
I follow

I drift along the ocean
Dead lifeboats
in the sun
they come undone

Pleasantly caving in
I come undone

And I realize you’re mine
Indeed a fool am I
And I realize you’re mine
Indeed a fool am I

Heaven smiles above me
What a gift here below
But no one knows

The Gift that you give to me
No one knows

Video for “No One Knows”.