The White Stripes

The White Stripes are a Grammy Award-winning American rock music duo from Detroit, composed of songwriter Jack White on guitar, piano, lead vocals, and Meg White on drums, percussion and vocals.

Song lyrics

• The nurse should not be the one who puts salt in your wounds
  But it's always with trust that the poison is fed with a spoon
  
  • "The Nurse"

• I blew it
  And if I knew what to do, then I'd do it
  But the point that I have, I'll get to it
  That forever for her is over for me
  Forever
  Just the word that she said that means never
  To be with another together
  And with the weight of a feather it tore into me.
  
  • Forever for Her (is Over for Me)

• My friends are all dying, and death can't be lying
  It's the truth and it don't make a noise.
  
  • "White Moon"

• Well strip the bark right off a tree and just hand it this way
  Don't even need a drink of water to make the headache go away
  Give me a sugar pill and watch me just rattle down the street
  Acetaminophen
  You see the medicine
  Oh girl, you have no faith in medicine.
  
  • Girl, You Have No Faith In Medicine

• Listen master can I ask you a question
  Is it the fingers, or the brain
  that you're teaching this lesson?
  
  • Black Math

• Well I never said I wouldn't throw my jacket in the mud for you
  but my father gave it to me so maybe I should carry you
  Then you said "You almost dropped me" so then I did
  and I got mud on my shoes.
  
  • I'm Finding It Harder To Be A Gentleman

• Come and tell me what you're thinking
  'Cause just when the boat is sinking
  A little light is blinking
  And I will come and rescue you.
  
  • "Apple Blossom"

• Soft hair and a velvet tongue
  I wanna give you what you give to me
  And every breath that is in your lungs is a tiny little gift to me.
  
  • Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground

• All the words are gonna bleed from me, and I will sing no more.
  
  • Seven Nation Army

• And I love my sister
  Lord knows how I've missed her
  She loves me
  And she knows I won't forget
  And sometimes I get jealous
  Of all her little pets
  And I get lonely, but I ain't that lonely yet
  
  • I'm lonely (but I ain't that lonely yet)

About

• The White Stripes were part of a wave of retro-minded young bands who gave rock music a much-needed jolt in the first few years of the 21st century, but they're less nostalgic bashers than a brilliant conceptual creation: a divorced Detroit couple who masqueraded as brother and sister, named themselves after their band (or vice versa), wore alternating white-and-red outfits, and rewired the blues for the new generation.
  • Rolling Stone magazine
  • No byline (2004). "Biography" The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (accessed March 26, 2007)

• I like them, but I don't see how they're in any way a manifestation of the blues.
  • John Mayer, in a 2004 Esquire column.
  • Silverman, Steven (2004). "John Mayer Rocks the High School Prom" Rolling Stone magazine (accessed March 26, 2007)