Death Letter Lyrics
What do you reckon it read?
It said the gal you love is dead
What do you reckon it read?
Because the gal you love is dead
Took off down the road
When I got there
She was laying on the cooling board
Packed up my suitcase
And I took off down the road
When I got there
She was laying on the cooling board
Standing around the burying ground
I didn't know I loved her
Until they began to let her down
Looked like ten thousand people
Standing around the burying ground
Didn't know I loved her
Until they began to let her down
Someone that don't love you
Won't get satisfaction
Don't care what you do
So hard to love
Someone that don't love you
Don't look like satisfaction
Don't care what you do
The break of day
Just hugging the pillows
Where she used to lay
Got up this morning
Would you believe the break of day
Just huggin' the pillows
Where my baby used to lay.
"You know it's so hard to love Someone that don't love you "
What a dam fine lyric!
I just picture it being something like his ex (girl thing) is getting married. Letter = Invitation Cooling board = wedding preps/buzz 10 thousand = all the ivited guests friends family She just doesnt want the D no moe
I love this song for the sole reason that it helped me discover Son House.
i'd say that this song is mostly about not understanding until it's too late, backed up by the line "I didn't know I loved her Until they began to let her down". This could even be recounting a dream, the way the death, and the journey to see her and the funeral all pass by so fast, and then the final verse actually says that she used to be in the same bed as him, indicating that she may have left him or something previously, but he had a dream she'd died and woke up at the "break of day", probably in quite a state and realised that although they may have left each other, he now realises that he does still love her deep down but it's too late.
I just came to the realization that in the original Son House version, there's the line
"I didn't feel so bad 'til the good old sun went down I didn't have a soul to throw my arms around"
Jack White stuck it right in Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground instead!
This might have been obvious to everyone, but not to me.
great 12 bar blues one of the white stripes best? i think so
I love this song! The video isn't bad either
theres a video for this song?
yes there is i love it!!!