About God Only Knows

"God Only Knows" is the second single by Christian alternative rock duo For King & Country for their third studio album, Burn the Ships (2018). It was originally released as the third promotional single on 27 July 2018. It impacted Christian radio on 11 January 2019. The song peaked at No. 2 on the US Hot Christian Songs chart, becoming their tenth top ten single. It also peaked at No. 94 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the duo's first song to reach the chart. The song is played in a D major key, and 144 beats per minute.

"God Only Knows" was released as the third promotional single from Burn the Ships on 27 July 2018, the duo also released the song's music video. On 11 January 2019, "God Only Knows" was released to Christian radio as the second single from the album. In an interview with Free CCM, the duo explained the message behind the song: "'God Only Knows' is one of those songs that you know...there's inward songs that were written about specific circumstances and you hope someone else resonates with them. This was a song looking out. There seems to be a lot of you said this, you did this, how dare you. The song is really a question mark of well first of all do we really understand each other fully? Our histories, our family heritages, the struggles in life, the things that have been done to us that no one knows about. The shame that we carry. Some of it we've done to ourselves, that's self sabotage. Some of it other people have done to us. You're just seeing a brief moment in time of that person. What if we pulled the lens back? Even if we did, there are some things that God does only know. We've got our shame, we've got our troubles, we've got our prejudice, we've got our judgements. God knows your heart and in turn the flip of that is, God also carries this love that is sort of the superman of all love. We kind of are image bearers and so we emulate it, but it's just this wonderful superhuman love that if we really lean into it it'd be a beautiful thing. But so often we don't understand because we're stuck in a human variation of it.