| The Raconteurs – Salute Your Solution Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Ok - here's my take on this verse: "I find myself just looking well beyond my best intentions Ignoring any kinda prize I might receive at all All others seem to find a road that's tough to satisfaction I find a ridicule that isn't cool for me at all" The first and fourth lines are correct - but I think the middle two are: "Ignoring any kind of PLAUSE I might receive at all While others seem to find their own selfish satisfaction" Just my thought! |
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| The Raconteurs – You Don't Understand Me Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I agree with Redman85 - I think it is definitely "court of my heart" And I love love love LOVE this song - I have not seen it live but watched it online from the Reading festival and from T in the Park, it was amazing. I can't wait to get the chance to see it/hear it live... |
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| The Raconteurs – These Stones Will Shout Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Rather than being an actual old folk hymn, as jryager mentioned, I think that only the title of the song is "recycled" as it were. Not just from hymns but from the Bible itself as holbytla stated. I've always thought this song was - for some reason - about his relationship with Meg. Not the love and marriage part, since it doesn't really have that "love song" feel to it for me. It seems more like his everyday interactions with her and the fact that he doesn't want to lose her (which it may seem like he is due to all this newness with The Racs) but he needs her to contribute more. In all the interviews and reviews and everything I've ever read about the WS, it seems that Meg is very quiet, soft-spoken and laid-back and lets Jack take complete control. That is cool with him to a point, but maybe with all the fame and fortune and the fact that he has a family now, he wants Meg to step up to the plate a little more. |
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| The Raconteurs – Carolina Drama Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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WOW what a great and long list of contributions here! I just love reading all these thoughts and seeing the different viewpoints. I find myself swaying and shifting every time I read one of the more detailed explanations: you know, "Yeah, maybe it WAS that way" and then changing my mind again the next one I read... One thought I've always had, since the first time I heard the song months and months ago - Is Jack (the narrator in the song, not the actual live Jack White) the milkman? To me, it makes sense for a few reasons: First, he is "going to tell it again," implying he has told it before. Of course, the song by the Pickens group would answer this, too. Second, there is no other mention of the milkman's whereabouts throughout the song. It's obvious someone is seeing the entire scene - not Billy, the little brother, the mom or the priest, because it is told in third-person, and definitely not the boyfriend since he's dead. There are items left behind by the milkman, such as the hat and the milk so he had to have been there. What is the milkman is NOT doing anything unusual, i.e. sleeping with the mom or entertaining the younger brother, but just being a regular guy on a regular day? So he delivers the milk at nine, and maybe he goes around the corner of the house to take a leak or follows a pet or who knows, maybe he hears Billy waking up and hides around the corner. Call him anti-social or something. Then he hears all this noise, from Billy entering the house, and comes back to the porch and sees the scene through the window. He's terrified, horrified and he runs away - forgetting his hat. When the little brother shows up, he finds the hat on the porch (I have no theory on the gin - maybe from the porch too, leftover from the boyfriend, or maybe from Billy's truck) and bops on into the house, unsuspecting. Ok, that turned out rather long - I guess I've just had this mental picture of a video (if one is ever made) where Jack the narrator is playing the character of the milkman, and hiding outside the house, peeking in a window to see/hear the entire thing... |
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