Lyric discussion by VortexOfLanguage 

Cover art for The Denial Twist lyrics by White Stripes, The

This is one of their best songs ever. My favourite line is "if you thinking holding hands is all in the fingers, grab hold of the soul where the memory lingers" I don't think it's about a cheating girlfriend, I think it's more about the girl didn't really take the relationship as seriously as he did, but that she made that obvious from the start. He just didn't see it until it was too late and she told him straight that it wasn't a serious relationship, and he ended up getting hurt. I think the singer telling everyone in the world is about the fact he can put it into a song and make her look really bad if he wants to, so don't expect it to just slide by, when he can show how serious he was about it even if she wasn't.

Nailed it.

It's happened to me and this song was the perfect release after I did my own Denial Twist.