Only God Knows Why

This article is about the Kid Rock song. For the Beach Boys song, see God Only Knows.

"Only God Knows Why"
Single by Kid Rock
from the album Devil Without a Cause
ReleasedNovember 30, 1999 (1999-11-30)
StudioWhite Room (Detroit, Michigan)
Genre
Length
  • 5:27 (album version)
  • 4:17 (radio edit)
Label
Songwriters
Producers
  • Kid Rock
  • John Travis
Kid Rock singles chronology
"Cowboy"
(1999) 		"Only God Knows Why"
(1999) 		"Wasting Time"
(2000)

"Only God Knows Why" is a song by American musician Kid Rock. It appears as the 11th track on his fourth studio album, Devil Without a Cause (1998). The song was the first recorded ballad on record by Kid Rock. It is a weary power ballad in which the first four lines were written while Kid Rock was in jail after a bar fight after signing to Atlantic Records in 1997.

The song was released as a single in 1999 and peaked at number 19 on the US Billboard Hot 100, eventually ranking at number 67 on the Billboard year-end chart for 2000. VH1 named it the 19th greatest power ballad in 2002. Outlaw country singer David Allan Coe released a live cover version of his release Live at Billy Bob's in 2003.

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