You Don't Understand Me

"You Don't Understand Me"
Single by Roxette
from the album Don't Bore Us, Get to the Chorus! - Roxette's Greatest Hits
Released	May 2, 1995
Genre	Pop
Length	04:28
Writer(s)	Per Gessle, Desmond Child
Roxette singles chronology
"Vulnerable" (1994) "You Don't Understand Me" (1995) "The Look '95" (1995)
Music video "You Don't Understand Me" on YouTube

"You Don't Understand Me" is a song by Swedish pop duo Roxette. Released in 1995, it was the first new single from their Greatest Hits album Don't Bore Us, Get to the Chorus! - Roxette's Greatest Hits.

"You Don't Understand Me" was written by Per Gessle and Desmond Child and this was the first time Gessle had co-written a song with an international songwriter.

Roxette recorded acoustic versions of the songs, "The Look", "Listen to Your Heart", "You Don't Understand Me" and "Help!", at the famous Abbey Road Studios in London, England. "Help!", a cover of the "Lennon–McCartney" song originally recorded by The Beatles, was released originally in the "Don't Bore Us - Get to the Chorus! (Roxette's European Promo Tour)" bootleg album (only 4 audio tracks)^[1] and then on the Roxette compilation The Rox Box/Roxette 86-06, whereas the other three songs were included on the UK release of this single and "You Don't Understand Me" was also included on the single "Anyone", released in 1999.

The song was a hit in several European countries, reaching the top 10 in Sweden and Finland, and the top 20 in Italy and The Netherlands.

Track listing

1. "You Don't Understand Me"
2. "Crazy About You"
3. "Harleys & Indians (Riders in the Sky)"

UK release

CD1

1. "You Don't Understand Me"
2. "The Look" (Abbey Road Acoustic Version)
3. "Listen to Your Heart" (Abbey Road Acoustic Version)
4. "You Don't Understand Me" (Abbey Road Acoustic Version)

CD2

1. "You Don't Understand Me"
2. "Almost Unreal" (Demo)
3. "Harleys & Indians (Riders in the Sky)"
4. "The Sweet Hello, The Sad Goodbye"

Charts

Chart (1995)	Peak Position
Sweden Single Charts	9[2]
UK Top 75	42[3]
German Single Charts	44[4]
Austrian Top 40	25[5]
Finnish Singles Chart	7[6]
Italian Hit Parade Chart	18[7]

References

1. This information was taken from the website: www.roxservice.com Section: Bootleg.
2. "Swedish singles chart". swedishcharts.com.
3. "UK Chart Stats". chartstats.com. Archived from the original on 2012-05-25.
4. "German Album Chart". charts-surfer. Archived from the original on October 29, 2007.
5. "Austrian Singles Chart". austriancharts.com. Retrieved 2008-07-07.
6. "Swedish chart". Billboard magazine: 75. 1995-11-25. Retrieved 2010-02-08.
7. "Indice per Interprete: R" (in Italian). Hit Parade Italia. Retrieved 24 October 2015.