The White Stripes - The White Stripes lyrics
- Jimmy The Exploder
- Stop Breaking Down
- The Big Three Killed My Baby
- Suzy Lee
- Sugar Never Tasted So Good
- Wasting My Time
- Cannon
- Astro
- Broken Bricks
- When I Hear My Name
- Do
- Screwdriver
- One More Cup of Coffee
- Little People
- Slicker Drips
- St. James Infirmary Blues
- I Fought Piranhas
Jimmy The Exploder
Now, Jimmy, well, do you want an explosion now?
Yeah, Jimmy, do you want to explode now?
Yeah, monkey, now you seeing red now.
Yeah, monkey, jumping on the bed now.
Hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo...
Green apples on the tree and growing now.
Green apples are gonna be exploding now.
Yeah, monkey, are you seeing red now?
Yeah, monkey, jumping on the bed now.
Woo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo...
Stop Breaking Down
I can't walk the streets now, to convulate my mind
Some pretty mama, she starts breakin' down
Stop breakin' down
Whoo!
Stop breakin' down
The stuff I got'll come and bust your brains out
Well, it'll make you lose your mind
You Saturday night women, you love to ape and clown
You won't do nothin' but tear good man's reputation down
Stop breakin' down
Whoo!
Stop breakin' down
The stuff I got'll come and bust your brains out
Well, they'll make you lose your mind
I gave my baby the ninety-ninth degree
She jumped up and throw a pistol down on me
Stop breakin' down
Yeah, stop breakin' down
The stuff I got is gonna bust your brains out
Yeah, it'll make you lose your mind
The Big Three Killed My Baby
The big three killed my baby
No money in my hand again
The big three killed my baby
Nobody's coming home again
Their ideas made me want to spit
A hundred dollars goes down the pit
30,000 wheels are rollin'
And my stick shift hands are swollen
Everything involved is shady
The big three killed my baby
The big three killed my baby
No money in my hand again
The big three killed my baby
Nobody's coming home again
Why don't you take the day off and try to repair
A billion others don't seem to care
Better ideas are stuck in the mud
The motors runnin' on Tucker's blood
Don't let them tell you the future's electric
Cause gasolines not measured in metric
30,000 wheels are spinnin'
And oil company faces are grinnin'
Now my hands are turnin' red
And I found out my baby is dead
The big three killed my baby
No money in my hand again
The big three killed my baby
Nobody's coming home again
Well I've said it now, nothing's changed
People are burnin' for pocket change
And creative minds are lazy
And the big three killed my baby
And my baby's my common sense
So don't feed me planned obsolescence
Yeah my baby's my common sense
So don't feed me planned obsolescence
I'm about to have another blowout
I'm about to have another blowout
Suzy Lee
There's a story
I would like to tell
My problem is
It's one you know too well
It's one you know too well
Me Suzy Lee
The one i'm speaking of
The question is
Is she the one i love ?
Is she the one i love ?
(all right)
Is she the one i love ?
She'll send me flowers
With her tears bored inside
And you know what i'd do
I would run and hide
I would run and hide
And the paper
On it was my name
With the question
Do you feel the same ?
Do you feel the same ?
To end this tale
The one i'm speaking of
I wish i have an answer (but i don't know)
Is this really love ?
Is this really love ?
Is this really love ?
Sugar Never Tasted So Good
Sugar never tasted so good
Sugar never tasted so good
Sugar never tasted good to me
Yeah
Until her eyes crossed over
Until her mind crossed over
Until her soul fell next to me
Now
If the wrinkle that is in your brain
Has given you quite a sting
Your fingers have become a crane
Pulling on these puppet strings
Yeah
What a feeling that's begun
What a feeling that's begun
What a feeling that's begun
What a feeling that's begun
Alright
I felt just like a baby
Until I held a baby
What a fool this boy can be
Yeah
And her thoughts like a daisy
How my mind gets lazy
I must've been crazy not to see
Alright
If the wrinkle that is in your brain
Has given you quite a sting
Your fingers have become a crane
Your fingers have become a crane
Your fingers have become a crane
Pulling on these puppet strings
Water never tasted so good
Water never tasted so good
Water never tasted good to me
Wasting My Time
And if i'm wasting my time
then nothing could be better
than hanging on the line
and waiting for an honest word forever
And if you're saying goodbye
please don't you think me bitter
for recalling every rhyme
from the book the page
the line the word the letter
Well the windows turning blue
and the waters ever flowing
and i hope i'm not a fool
for laughing at myself
as you are going
Cannon
outside
my door
unlocked
i'm lookin'
at this sound
That chime out of nowhere
yeah, nowhere
whoo
wheels turnin'
scratchin'
and burnin'
yeah
i fought guns
tanks
cannon
cannon
yeah
tell me who's that writin'
john the revelator
tell me who's that writin'
john the revelator
tell me who's that writin'
john the revelator
wrote the book on the seven seas
christ went down on easter mornin'
mary mother went down to see it
gotta tell my disciples to meet me in galilee
who's writin'
john the revelator
tell me who's that writin'
john the revelator
tell me who's that writin'
john the revelator
wrote the book on the seven seas
hey
whoo
lord above
i command
i've been evil
evil
yeah
evil
Astro
Maybe Jasper does the astro
Maybe Jasper does the astro
Maybe Jasper does the astro, astro
(Yeah)
Maybe Lily does the astro
Maybe Lily does the astro
Maybe Lily does the astro, astro
(woah .... eh...)
Maybe Jackson does the astro
Maybe Jackson does the astro
Maybe Jackson does the astro, astro
Maybe Momma does the astro
Maybe Momma does the astro
Maybe Momma does the astro, astro
Maybe Tesla does the astro
Maybe Tesla does the astro
Maybe Edison is AC/DC
Broken Bricks
As a Note: There lyrics are very difficult to understand at some points during the song.
Well have you been to the broken bricks girl?
Snuck down through the cyclone fence?
Past the caution tape and the security gate,
backwards to the break room bench?
Well there was a little corner,
where you first got kissed,
and felt your boyfriend's fist,
and made the company list.
And there's a little spot,
where your dad ate lunch,
and your brother landed his first punch,
yeah yeah yeah...
Well now you've been to the broken bricks girl,
seen the barrels that they've left behind.
Seen the machine that got aluminum clean,
and cut tape from the caution sign.
I've broken two window panes;
just a rusty colored rain that drives a man insane.
You tried jump over water but you land in oil,
climbed the metal of a broken crane,
yeah yeah yeah...
Don't go to the broken bricks girl,
it's not a place that you want to be.
Think about the spot your father spent his life,
demolition calls it building C.
Demolition calls it building C now,
demolition calls it building C now...
Yeah
When I Hear My Name
when i hear my name
i want to disappear
woah woah woah
when i see my face
i want to disappear
woah woah woah
when i see my face
i want to disappear
woah woah mmm-hmm
when i hear my name
i want to disappear
woah woah woah
Do
Well somebody walked up to me
But I didn't know what to do
Then somebody said hello to me
But I didn't know what to do
Because I think that my words could get twisted
So I bend my back over
Take a gulp
Be funny
Cause I know there's nothing I can do
Then my mother tried to pick me up
When I was sittin down on the ground
Something forced my little eyes to come open
But I couldn't make out the sound
It doesn't matter cause my eyes are lying
And they don't have emotion
Don't wanna be social
Can't take it when they hate me
But I know there's nothing I can do
When my thoughts start to feel like mine
They're taken from me
It seems to happen all the time
And the feelings that are fine for you
There's somebody there
Who doesn't think they are true
So think of something new
There's nothing left to do
Then my idols walk next to me
I look up at them they fade away
It's a destruction of a mystery
The more I listen to what they say
So does that mean that there's no more doing
And there's no more thinking
And there's no more feeling
Cause there's no right opinion
So can you tell me what I'm supposed to do?
Screwdriver
Tuesday morning now
I gotta have somewhere to go
I call up tommy now
I call him on the telephone
Won't you wake up and come with me now
I'm going to the pawn and loan
Walking down thirty three
Walking on thirty o
Well what am i supposed to think
I drop a nickel in the sink
I love people like a brother now
But i'm not gonna be their mother now
What if someone walked up to me
And like an apple cut right through me
im not just gonna stand there grinnin
cause I'm not the one who's sinnin
Screwdriver
Now that you have heard my story now
I've got a little ending to it now
Whenever you go out alone
Take a little dog a bone
Think about your little sister
Then you got to drive it home
With a screwdriver
I got a little feeling goin' now
I got a little feeling goin' now
One More Cup of Coffee
Your breath is sweet and weak,
Your eyes are like two jewels in the sky.
Your back is straight, your hair is smooth
On the pillow where you lie.
But I don't sense affection
No gratitude or love
Your loyalty is not to me
But to the stars above.
One more cup of coffee for the road
One more cup of coffee 'fore I go
To the valley below.
Your daddy he's an outlaw
And a wanderer by trade
He'll teach you how to pick and choose
And how to throw the blade
He oversees his kingdom
So no stranger does intrude
His voice it trembles as he calls out
For another plate of food
One more cup of coffee for the road,
One more cup of coffee 'fore I go
To the valley below
Your sister sees the future
Like your mother and yourself
You've never learned to read or write
There's no books upon your shelf.
But your pleasure knows no limits
And your voice is like a meadowlark
Your heart is like the ocean
Mysterious and dark
One more cup of coffee for the road,
One more cup of coffee 'fore I go
To the valley below
Little People
There's a little girl
who says bink bink bop (?)
There's a little girl
who says bink bink bop (?)
Hello, oh oh...
There's a little boy
with a spider in his hand
There's a little boy
with a spider in his hand
Hello, oh oh...
There's a little girl
with the red shoes on
There's a little girl
with the red shoes on
Hello, oh oh...
There's a little boy
with twenty five cents
There's a little boy
with twenty five cents
Hello, oh oh...
And there's a little girl
with a tiger on her bed
There's a little girl
with a tiger on her bed
Hello, oh oh...
There's a little boy
with nothing on his mind
There's a little boy
with nothing on his mind
Hello...
Slicker Drips
you're lookin' at me
nowhere to go
what they're sayin'
I just don't know
a floor below me
ceiling above
and I'm in the middle
with nobody to love
nobody to love
nobody to love
nobody to love
yeah
well lookin' at me
nowhere to go
know what they're sayin'
I just don't know?
a floor below me
a ceiling up above
and I'm in the middle
with nobody to love
nobody to love
yeah, hey, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
St. James Infirmary Blues
Well, folks, I'm goin' down to St. James Infirmary,
See my little baby there,
She's stretched out on a long, white table,
She's so good, so cold, so fair.
Let her go, let her go, God bless her,
Wherever she may be,
You may search this whole wide world over,
But you'll never find another sweetheart like me.
Take apart your bones and put 'em back together,
Tell your mama that you're somebody new,
Feel the breeze blowin', tell 'em all look out here it comes,
Now I can say whatever I feel like to you.
Then get me six craps-shootin' pallbearers,
Let a chorus girl sing me a song,
Put a little odds on that sweet grace,
Hallelujah as we go along.
Well, folks, now that you have heard my story,
Say, boy, hand me another shot of that rye,
And if anyone else should ask you,
Just tell 'em I've got some of those St. James Infirmary blues.
I Fought Piranhas
Well, I hold the rope and I hold the sail,
And I kept my papers to keep from land in jail.
And I fought piranhas, and I fought the cold.
There was no one with me, I was all alone.
Well, it's Easter morning now, and there's no one around,
So I unroll the cement and walk into the town.
There was no one with me, I was all alone.
And I fought piranhas, and I fought the cold.
Well, you know what it's like, I don't got to tell you,
Who puts up a fight walking out of Hell, now.
When you fought piranhas and you fought the cold,
There's nobody with you, yes, you're all alone.