There is more than one artist with this name:

1) British hardrock ba… Read Full Bio ↴There is more than one artist with this name:

1) British hardrock band
2) Dutch guitarpop band
3) British folk group

1) Blue Murder was the hard rock brainchild of ex-Whitesnake and Thin Lizzy guitarist John Sykes. The original 1988 lineup of the band, also included ex-The Firm bass player Tony Franklin and drummer Cozy Powell (although he was almost immediately replaced by Carmine Appice). Ray Gillen was also briefly in the 1988 line-up before Sykes decided to take the vocal duties himself in addition to guitar.

Hoping to capitalize upon the success of Whitesnake's multi-platinum 1987, Geffen Records signed Sykes to form a new band. After auditioning several vocalists (including Tony Martin and Ray Gillen), Sykes was encouraged to handle vocal duties himself.

Their self titled debut did moderately well, peaking at #69 on the Billboard Top 200, and spawned the singles "Jelly Roll" (#15, Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks) and "Valley of the Kings", which received substantial airplay on MTV's Headbanger's Ball.

In 1993, the follow-up Nothing But Trouble was released. While the original lineup recorded much of the album, Sykes' hesitancy at handing the vocal chores resurfaced; he recruited Baton Rouge singer Kelly Keeling. After spending more than a year laying down the vocal tracks for the album, John was not convinced that the vocals were to his liking. He proceeded to go over the lead vocal tracks with his own until Kelly had only one lead vocal track left, "I'm On Fire".

Perhaps stemming from Keeling's ouster, Franklin and Appice left midway through the recording sessions, to be replaced by bassist Marco Mendoza and drummer Tommy O'Steen.

As Nothing But Trouble was released well after the grunge explosion of 1991, it received virtually no promotion from Geffen. The album's lead-off track "We All Fall Down" reached #35 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, but the album was a commercial failure.

A live recording, Screaming Blue Murder, was to be the band's final release before their 1992 split.

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2) Blue Murder was a Dutch band formed after the split up of Soviet Sex back in 1982. The members on the first albums are:
MAARTEN VAN DER PLOEG: voc, guitar
PHIL VAN TONGEREN: voc, synthesizer
RYU TAJIRI: voc, synthesizer
ROGIER VAN DER PLOEG: guitar
ANNEMIEK LELYVELD: bass
MONIEK VOULON: drums

Also on drums on the latter albums: Jos den Brok, and in 1986 Kors Eijkelboom. In 1987 the group falls apart. In the Amsterdam Melkweg arena was their final concert.
Blue Murder plays guitarpop, like Talking Heads.

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3) Blue Murder is an occasional folk supergroup, containing various members of Swan Arcade, Coope Boyes and Simpson, Waterson:Carthy and The Watersons.

She Knows
Blue Murder Lyrics

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Will she still love me forever
Well, I don't know
Foolishly, I have betrayed her
Now she must go

I thought that our love would last forever
She'll never know
She'll never go

Selfishly lost on my own endeavor
She'll never go
She'll never know
But she knows

How can I make it without her
Well, I don't know
I've cast a shadow of doubt here
I can't let go

I thought that our love would last forever
She'll never know
She'll never go
We've just spent half of our lives together
She'll never go
She'll never know
But she knows
She knows

She knows
She knows

I thought our love would last forever
She'll never know
She'll never go
We've just spent half of our lives together
She'll never go
She'll never know
But she knows

She knows
She knows

Overall Meaning

The lyrics to Blue Murder's song "She Knows" tell a story of regret and loss. The singer is reflecting on a relationship that has ended because of their own mistakes, and they are left wondering if they will ever be able to move on without their partner. The opening lines, "Will she still love me forever / Well, I don't know," reveal the singer's uncertainty about the future of the relationship. They have betrayed their partner, and they are aware that they may have lost them for good.

The chorus repeats the sentiment that the singer thought their love would last forever, but now they must face the harsh reality that it is over. They seem to be wrestling with their own selfishness, acknowledging that their mistakes were their own doing. The line, "Selfishly lost on my own endeavor," suggests that the singer may have put their own needs above their partner's, leading to the demise of the relationship.

The last lines of the song, "But she knows / She knows," are the most haunting. The repetition of this phrase suggests that while the singer may have moved on, their partner has not. They are left to live with the knowledge of what the singer did, while the singer is left to wonder if they will ever be able to make it without them.

Line by Line Meaning

Will she still love me forever
Uncertainty whether she will continue to love him forever

Well, I don't know
No answer to that question

Foolishly, I have betrayed her
He cheated on her, acting foolishly

Now she must go
She left him, can't be with him anymore

I thought that our love would last forever
He had thought their love was eternal

She'll never know
She won't know that he was thinking this

She'll never go
She won't leave him in his thoughts

Selfishly lost on my own endeavor
He was selfishly pursuing something else

But she knows
She knows this fact about him

How can I make it without her
He doesn't know how to survive without her

I can't let go
He doesn't want to let go of her