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The White Stripes – I Can Learn
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[Verse 1] / I wish we were stuck up a tree / Then we'd know that it's nicer below / I don't know any lullabyes / I don't know how to make you mine / But I can learn / In lonely
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The White Stripes – We're Going to Be Friends
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Off of The White Stripes' third album, White Blood Cells, “We’re Going to Be Friends” was a contrast to the garage rock and blues style that the White Stripes were known for
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The White Stripes – Now Mary
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[Verse 1] / Now Mary / Can't you find a way / To bring me down? / I'm so sorry / That I had to go / And let you down / [Chorus] / Knowing you I'll think things are gonna be fine
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The White Stripes – I Can't Wait
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This is guitar intro at the start is very similar to “Heart-Shaped Box” by Nirvana, which can be from the common comparison of Jack White and Kurt Cobain (Lead guitarist of Nirvana
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The White Stripes – Seven Nation Army
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Jack White uses an effects pedal to make his guitar sound like a bass and howls about a rage so intense, he could take on an army all by himself. Result: the greatest riff of the
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The White Stripes – Fell in Love with a Girl
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“Fell In Love With A Girl” was released as the second single off of White Blood Cells.
The video for this song was one of the first brickfilms to get mainstream attention. It
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The White Stripes – Ball and Biscuit
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Built on a traditional 12-Bar Blues chord progression, “Ball and Biscuit” is the longest song the duo has ever laid to tape, at 7 minutes and 20 seconds. With its screeching
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The White Stripes – Icky Thump
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The title song and the first track on the album, it has very abrupt tempo and melody changes.
“Icky Thump” follows the story of a white American who goes to Mexico looking for a
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The White Stripes – Why Can't You be Nicer to Me?
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[Verse 1] / Somebody's screaming / Looking at the ceiling, oh! / Everything's so funny / I don't have any money, oh! / People don't even know me / But they know how to show me, oh
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The White Stripes – Hotel Yorba
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“Hotel Yorba” is the lead single from The White Stripes' 2001 LP White Blood Cells. The song mixes elements of country and garage rock.
Built in 1923, The Hotel Yorba used to be
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The White Stripes – The Union Forever
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“The Union Forever” is a song inspired by Orson Welles' 1941 film Citizen Kane. In an interview with Spin magazine, White Stripes lead singer Jack White explained that some of the
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The White Stripes – Black Math
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I was thinking about a time in high school when I turned my books in to the math teacher and said, ‘I refuse to learn from you anymore.’ The song is about asking questions. A lot
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The White Stripes – Let's Shake Hands
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First White Stripes release W/ B/ Look Me Over Closely
The second pressing of this single came with this illuminating quote on the sleeve
George Washington: “We take the stars
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The White Stripes – Who's to Say
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This song of unrequited love, written by Dan Miller, appeared as a bonus track on the Japanese edition of the album [Elephant](https://genius.com/albums/The-white-stripes/Elephant.
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The White Stripes – Little Acorns
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[Spoken Word Intro: Mort Crim] / When problems overwhelm us and sadness smothers us, where do we find the will and the courage to continue? Well the answer may come in the caring
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The White Stripes – City Lights
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Originally written for Get Behind Me Satan but not finished until 2016, ‘City Lights’ was released in August of 2016 as the first new track from the Jack White release Acoustic
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The White Stripes – Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground
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The opening track to the critically acclaimed third album White Blood Cells. The track was released as the third single.
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The White Stripes – Offend in Every Way
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This track has something akin to a tango beat, ONE-two-three-four, ONE-two-three-four.
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The White Stripes – The Denial Twist
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“The Denial Twist” is the third single from the White Stripes' fifth studio album, Get Behind Me Satan.
The music video features cameos from Conan O'Brien and music writer Tom
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The White Stripes – This Protector
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[Verse 1] / [Spoken by Meg] / I never thought that I had to be this protector / So many thoughts inside my head a strange collector / [Pre-Chorus] / But now / But now / But now
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The White Stripes – I Think I Smell a Rat
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[Verse] / Oh I think I smell a rat / I think I smell a rat / All you little kids seem to think you know just where it's at / Oh I think I smell a rat / Walking down the street
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The White Stripes – Stop Breaking Down
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A Robert Johnson cover song that was also covered by the Rolling Stones on Exile on Main Street
With Stop Breaking Down. You know, I’d heard “Exile on Main Street” before but
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The White Stripes – Hypnotize
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[Verse 1] / I want to hypnotize you, baby, on the telephone / So many times I called your house just to hear the tone / And though I knew that you weren't home / I didn't mind so
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The White Stripes – I Fought Piranhas
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Jack used his 1960s Crestwood Astral guitar on this
Jack White once mentioned that there is a song on this album about Moby Dick. This is the only one that it could be, with its
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The White Stripes – Good to Me
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[Verse 1] / I've got a 1984 Volvo / I get in start it up and I go / It's not a vintage Cadillac / But it always gets me there and back / [Chorus] / And it'll always be good to me
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The White Stripes – Effect and Cause
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This song is Jack White’s lament on the nature of females, specifically when in a relationship with one.
Jack White reveals at the end of the last verse before the chorus that:
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The White Stripes – Little Room
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[Verse] / Well, you're in your little room and you're working on something good / But if it's really good, you're gonna need a bigger room / And when you're in the bigger room, you
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The White Stripes – Girl, You Have No Faith in Medicine
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“Girl, You Have No Faith in Medicine” is the thirteenth track off of the White Stripes' 2003 album Elephant.
It makes reference to the Placebo Effect. The Placebo Effect describes
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The White Stripes – Isis
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Well, I married Isis on the fifth day of May / But I could not hold on to her very long / So I cut off my hair and I rode straight away / To the wild unknown country where I could
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The White Stripes – Jolene
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“Jolene” was originally written and performed by Dolly Parton. It’s ranked #219 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of “the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time”.
“Jolene” is about a woman
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The White Stripes – Walking with a Ghost
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[Chorus 1] / No matter which way you go / No matter which way you stay / You're out of my mind, out of my mind / Out of my mind, out of my mind / [Chorus 2] / I was walking with a
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The White Stripes – The Hardest Button to Button
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“The Hardest Button to Button” is the third single taken off The White Stripes' 2003 album Elephant. The song is about a kid growing up in a broken home.
It was a quick song to
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The White Stripes – Broken Bricks
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The lyrics to this song (partially written by Jack’s brother Stephen Gillis) paint a very graphic picture of post-industrial life in detroit….
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The White Stripes (Ft. Johnny Walker) – Suzy Lee
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[Verse 1] / 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 / Ms. Suzy Lee / The one I'm speaking of / The question
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The White Stripes – Do
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[Verse 1] / Well somebody walked up to me / But I didn't know what to do / And then somebody said hello to me / But I didn't know what to do / Because I think that my words could
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The White Stripes – When I Hear My Name
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[Verse] / 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
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The White Stripes – One More Cup of Coffee
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[Verse 1] / 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
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The White Stripes – Bone Broke
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[Verse 1] / Hey, hey! / Look closer and you can see how I been running it / I got a dollar bill in the cockpit / Surprised being white is a black hole / I got another job at the
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The White Stripes – Cannon
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As the title of this song, the word cannon takes on several different meanings. At first it’s a gun, mounted on a tank. Then Jack White takes lyrics from the Son House version of “
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The White Stripes – You’ve Got Her in Your Pocket (Live)
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You've got her in your pocket / And there's no way out now / Put it in the safe and lock it 'cause it's home sweet home / Nobody ever told you that it was the wrong way / To trick
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The White Stripes – Forever for Her (Is Over for Me)
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Recorded in 2005 at White’s residence at the time in the historic Indian Village neighborhood in Detroit. (…) The working title for the track was “I Blew It.”
Jack White’s Detroit
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The White Stripes – St. Andrew (This Battle Is in the Air)
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[Verse] / This battle is in the air / I'm looking upwards / Where are the angels? / I'm not in my home / St. Andrew don't forsake me / St. Andrew / Don't forsake me / Who is here
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The White Stripes – Lovesick
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I'm walkin' through streets that are dead / Walkin' with you in my head / My feet are so tired and my brain is so wired / And the clouds are weepin' / Did I hear someone tell a lie
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The White Stripes – Mr. Cellophane
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If someone stood up in a crowd / And raised his voice up way out loud / And waved his arm / And shook his leg / You'd notice him / And if someone at a movie show / Yelled "fire in
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The White Stripes – A Boy's Best Friend
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[Verse 1] / I just don't fit in this place / Their thoughts cast me out of here / Their home has run out of space / My mind's already out of here / [Chorus] / Won't you come along
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