61 Meanings
Add Yours
Follow
Share
Q&A
Blue Veins Lyrics
When I was surrounded by the world
You were the only one who came
And you were the only one astounded
Which kept me grounded
As the other girls thrashed my very name
Then I looked over
Just in time to see her smiling back at me
And saying everything's OK
As long as you're inside my blue veins
Your blue veins
Yeah and the feeling that you gave me
No matter what I do or where I go
It always will remain
And those who would enslave me to get to me must get past you and will have no luck
Cause you'll protect me from all pain
The most beautiful, yeah the most beautiful thing cause anything else can't compare
Must be the blood that's running through your blue veins
Your blue veins
(Strange part in reverse)
Your blue veins
And I know you won't deceive me
Like the rest and there's nothing you need to explain
You always were the first one to believe me
When I said to you girl
I think it's gonna rain
But I could be wrong
Yeah but all of these things
All these things
They're all truly nice but ain't nothing
Ain't nothing compared to the love that's running through your little blue veins
Your blue veins
You were the only one who came
And you were the only one astounded
Which kept me grounded
As the other girls thrashed my very name
Just in time to see her smiling back at me
And saying everything's OK
As long as you're inside my blue veins
Your blue veins
No matter what I do or where I go
It always will remain
And those who would enslave me to get to me must get past you and will have no luck
Cause you'll protect me from all pain
Must be the blood that's running through your blue veins
Your blue veins
Like the rest and there's nothing you need to explain
You always were the first one to believe me
When I said to you girl
I think it's gonna rain
But I could be wrong
All these things
They're all truly nice but ain't nothing
Ain't nothing compared to the love that's running through your little blue veins
Song Info
Submitted by
zerovermars On Apr 29, 2006
More The Raconteurs
Carolina Drama
Steady, As She Goes
Consoler of the Lonely
Intimate Secretary
Hands
Add your song meanings, interpretations, facts, memories & more to the community.
Atlast the blues, bring it on back now jack
its how this guys life has sucked since like forever but then he meets this girl and he describes why and how much he likes/loves her and how she kinda changed/saved his life
Great straight up blues song. Jack White is one of the last rock stars.
Dosent this song remind you of an early Robert Plant? I played this for my stepdad (who is a huge Zeppelin fan) and he thought that it was an early Plant album... It is an awesome song. I play this song in my band all the time, the bass line is absolutley awesome, yet simple.
This might be right off the mark (and knowing me it probably is) but sometimes I wonder if it might be about Jack's little girl, Scarlett. For example:
Yeah and the feeling that you gave me No matter what I do or where I go <---- As in maybe the unconditional love a father will always get from his daughter It always will remain
The most beautiful, yeah the most beautiful thing cause anything else can't compare Must be the blood that's running through your blue veins <---- Perhaps knowing that no matter what she will always belong to him because her blood is essentially his blood
I'm not sure, a lot of meanings would fit. But its a killer song that I could listen to forever.
i LOVE this song. It's one of whites best songs ever!
I think that the raconteurs has been good in this song. the text is perfect. it makes sense in every way. should it be a love song? should it be about drugs? or if it was about his little daughter? there are several ways to see the point! I think i would choose to see it as though it were his daughter, because she is his own flesh and blood(all these thing, they are truly nice, they aint nothing.. aint nothing compared to the blood there's running through your 'little' blue veins), and she may means everything for him. genius if the song had been written for her?? :)the ra
This song is about his wife Karen Elson. They met during the filming of the blue orchid video, a time period in which Jack was suffering a lot of alienation from the world. He didn't want to succumb into the cliche ways of a rock star, aching to stay true to his working class origins. In live versions of this song, you can hear jack modifying the lyrics from the first chorus to "then, i looked over, just in time, to see her little redhead smiling back at me and saying everything's OK".His wife Karen has strikingly wonderful red hair, they fell in love so quickly, that they got married 3 weeks into knowing each other in an amazonian jungle. I don't know and I don't care if Jack is into drugs, but I can tell that this is obviously a love song, the most heartfelt he's probably written in his life.
first comment :D I tried reversing that weird part...yeah still sounded reversed? haha I don't know how they did that.. anyways, I love this song. yeah i think the meaning is pretty self-explainatory....either taht, or I'm lookin at it too literally?
Reversed Part:
Reversed Part:
There is nowhere the best of all But I'm just as cool as the rain, yeah Then all thoughts I want will leave me, yeah God! this lil's the best I found, yeah, I think it's gonna rain.
There is nowhere the best of all But I'm just as cool as the rain, yeah Then all thoughts I want will leave me, yeah God! this lil's the best I found, yeah, I think it's gonna rain.
That's what I'm listening!! :)
That's what I'm listening!! :)
yeah love this song - strange, i like the way it doesnt really hsave a tune in some parts, more like him just saying the lyrics. its really affective it think. my does the music sound so familiar - i swear its like another song - i just cant put my finger on it - the piano/keyboard in perticular...
i love the hell outta this song and the raconteurs. but this song has given me an urge to know what jack white is saying in that reversed part. please someone, help a brother out lol. if u can get any info about what he's really saying post it.
thanks