"You Don't Know How It Feels" is a song and the lead single from Tom Petty

Tom Petty

Thomas Earl "Tom" Petty is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is the frontman of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and was a founding member of the late 1980s supergroup Traveling Wilburys and Mudcrutch. He has also performed under the pseudonyms of Charlie T...

's 1994 album Wildflowers

Wildflowers (Tom Petty album)

Wildflowers is the second solo album by American musician Tom Petty, released in November 1994 . The album was the first released by Petty after signing a contract with Warner Bros...

. It reached number one on the Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

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 Album Rock Tracks chart and number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100

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MTV and many radio stations aired a censored version of "You Don't Know How It Feels," reversing the word "joint" in "let's roll another joint" — although a version replacing the word "roll" with "hit" was also made. Nevertheless, the music video won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Male Video

MTV Video Music Award for Best Male Video

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 in 1995. The song is sometimes mistakenly called "Roll Another Joint" on P2P

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 search engines because of the aforementioned line.

Girl on LSD

Petty originally intended the B-side of the single, "Girl on LSD," to appear on Wildflowers

Wildflowers (Tom Petty album)

Wildflowers is the second solo album by American musician Tom Petty, released in November 1994 . The album was the first released by Petty after signing a contract with Warner Bros...

, but Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

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refused because it was too controversial. In the song Petty sings about being in love with multiple girls on different drugs: marijuana, cocaine, LSD, beer, crystal meth, china white (a slang term for heroin) and coffee. In the chorus Petty states: "Through ecstasy, crystal meth and glue/I found no drug compares to you/all these pills, all this weed/I dunno just what I need."

Charts

Chart (1994–1995)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Album Rock Tracks	1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	13
Canadian RPM Top Singles	3
UK Singles Chart	119

End-of-year charts

End of year chart (1995)	Position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	61