Elephant

[Verse 1]

I'm gonna fight 'em off

A seven-nation army couldn't hold me back

They're gonna rip it off

Takin' their time right behind my back

And I'm talkin' to myself at night because I can't forget

Back and forth through my mind, behind a cigarette

[Pre-Chorus]

And the message comin' from my eyes says, "Leave it alone"

[Instrumental Chorus]

[Verse 2]

Don't wanna hear about it

Every single one's got a story to tell

Everyone knows about it

From the Queen of England to the Hounds of Hell

And if I catch it comin' back my way, I'm gonna serve it to you

And that ain't what you want to hear, but that's what I'll do

[Pre-Chorus]

And the feelin' comin' from my bones says, "Find a home"

[Instrumental Chorus]

[Guitar Solo]

[Verse 3]

I'm goin' to Wichita

Far from this opera forevermore

I'm gonna work the straw

Make the sweat drip out of every pore

And I'm bleedin' and I'm bleedin' and I'm bleedin' right before the Lord

All the words are gonna bleed from me and I will think no more

[Pre-Chorus]

And the stains comin' from my blood tell me, "Go back home"

[Instrumental Chorus]

[Verse 1]

Don't you think that I'm bound to react now?

Well, my fingers definitely turning to black now

Yeah, well maybe I'll put my love on ice

Teach myself, maybe that'll be nice, yeah

[Verse 2]

My books are sitting at the top of the stack now

The longer words are really breaking my back now, yeah

Maybe I'll learn to understand

Drawing a square with a pencil in hand, yeah

[Bridge]

Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah

Mathematically turning the page

Unequivocally showing my age

I'm practically center stage

Undeniably earning your wage

Well maybe I'll put my love on ice

And teach myself, maybe that'll be nice, yeah

[Solo]

[Verse 3]

Listen master, can you answer a question?

Is it the fingers, or the brain

That you're teaching a lesson?

I can't tell you how proud I am

I'm writing down things that I don't understand

[Outro]

Well, maybe I'll put my love on ice

And teach myself, maybe that'll be nice, yeah

Yeah

Yeah

Yeah

[Chorus]

Ahhhh

There's no home for you here girl, go away

There's no home for you here

There's no home for you here girl, go away

There's no home for you here

[Verse 1]

I'd like to think that all of this constant interaction

Is just the kind to make you drive yourself away

Each simple gesture done by me is counteracted

And leaves me standing here with nothing else to say

Completely baffled by a backward indication

That an inspired word will come across your tongue

Hands moving upward to propel the situation

Have simply halted

Now the conversation's done

[Chorus]

There's no home for you here girl, go away

There's no home for you here

There's no home for you here girl, go away

There's no home for you here

[Verse 2]

I'm only waiting for the proper time to tell you

That it's impossible to get along with you

It's hard to look you in the face when we are talking

So it helps to have a mirror in the room

I've not been really looking forward to the performance

But there's my cue and there's a question on your face

Fortunately I have come across an answer

Which is go away

And do not leave a trace

[Chorus]

Ahhhh

There's no home for you here girl, go away

There's no home for you here

There's no home for you here girl, go away

There's no home for you here

[Bridge]

Waking up for breakfast

Burning matches

Talking quickly

Breaking baubles

Throwing garbage

Drinking soda

Looking happy

Taking pictures

So completely stupid

Just go away

Ahhhh

[Chorus]

There's no home for you here girl, go away

There's no home for you here

There's no home for you here girl, go away

There's no home for you here

There's no home for you here girl, go away

There's no home for you here

There's no home for you here girl, go away

There's no home for you here

[Refrain]

I just don't know what to do with myself

I don't know what to do with myself

[Verse 1]

Planning everything for two

Doing everything with you

And now that we're through

I just don't know what to do

[Refrain]

I just don't know what to do with myself

I don't know what to do with myself

[Verse 2]

Movies only make me sad

Parties make me feel as bad

'Cause I'm not with you

I just don't know what to do

[Chorus]

Like a summer rose

Needs the sun and rain

I need your sweet love

To beat love away

[Refrain]

Well I don't know what to do with myself

Just don't know what to do with myself

[Verse 1]

Planning everything for two

Doing everything with you

And now that we're through

I just don't know what to do

[Chorus]

Like a summer rose

To sun and rain

I need your sweet love

To beat love away

[Refrain]

I just don't know what to do with myself

Just don't know what to do with myself

Just don't know what to do with myself

I don't know what to do with myself

[Verse 1]

I saw you standing in the corner

On the edge of a burning light

I saw you standing in the corner

[Chorus]

Come to me again in the cold, cold night

In the cold, cold night

[Verse 2]

You make me feel a little older

Like a full grown woman might

But when you're gone I grow colder

[Chorus]

Come to me again in the cold, cold night

In the cold, cold night

[Bridge]

I hear you walking by my front door

I hear the creaking of the kitchen floor

I don't care what other people say

I'm going to love you, anyway

[Chorus]

Come to me again in the cold, cold night

In the cold, cold night

[Verse 3]

I can't stand it any longer

I need the fuel to make my fire bright

So don't fight it any longer

[Chorus]

Come to me again in the cold, cold night

In the cold, cold night

[Outro]

And I know that you feel it too

When my skin turns into glue

You will know that it's warm inside

And you'll come run to me

In the cold, cold night

In the cold, cold night

In the cold, cold night

In the cold, cold night

[Verse 1]

I want to be the boy to warm your mother's heart

I'm so scared to take you away

I tried to win her over right from the start

But something always got in the way

We've been sitting in your backyard for hours

But she won't even come out and say hi

While my mother baked a little cake for you

And even dreaded when you said goodbye

[Chorus]

What kind of cartwheels do I have to pull?

What kind of joke should I lay on her now?

I'm inclined to go finish high school

Just to make her notice that I'm around

[Verse 2]

Well nothing I come up with seems to work

It feels like everything I say is a lie

And never have I felt like such a jerk

I'm afraid to even open my eyes

Because I really don't want her to judge me

I want her to really know who I am

And then and only then will she love me

Well at least that was the plan

If ever a boy needed a holiday

If ever a girl needed someone to hold

I just hope I don't act the same way

By the time that I get that old

[Chorus]

What kind of cartwheels do I have to pull?

What kind of joke should I lay on her now?

I'm inclined to go finish high school

Just to make her notice that I'm around

[Outro]

I never said I was an heir to a fortune

I never claimed to have any looks

But these kind of things must be important

'Cause somebody ripped out my page in your telephone book

I want to warm her heart

[Chorus]

You've got her in your pocket

And there's no way out now

Put it in the safe and lock it

'Cause it's home sweet home

[Verse 1]

Nobody ever told you that it was the wrong way

To trick a woman, make her feel she did it her way

And you'll be there if she ever feels blue

And you'll be there when she finds someone new

What to do?

Well you know

[Chorus]

You keep her in your pocket

Where there's no way out now

Put it in the safe and lock it

'Cause it's home sweet home

[Verse 2]

The smile on your face made her think she had the right one

And she thought she was sure by the way you two could have fun

But now she might leave like she's threatened before

Grab hold of her fast before her feet leave the floor

And she's out the door

'Cause you want

[Chorus]

To keep her in your pocket

Where there's no way out now

Put it in the safe and lock it

'Cause it's home sweet home

[Verse 3]

And in your own mind, you know you're lucky just to know her

And in the beginning all you wanted was to show her

But now you're scared, you think she's running away

You search in your hand for something clever to say;

"Don't go away"

'Cause I want

[Chorus]

To keep you in my pocket

Where there's no way out now

Put it in the safe and lock it

'Cause it's home sweet home

[Outro]

Home sweet home

[Verse 1]

It's quite possible that I'm your third man, girl

But it's a fact that I'm the seventh son

It's quite possible that I'm your third man, girl

But it's a fact that I'm the seventh son

And right now, you could care less about me

But soon enough, you will care by the time I'm done

[Verse 2]

Let's have a ball and a biscuit, sugar

And take our sweet little time about it

Let's have a ball, girl

And take our sweet little time about it

Tell everybody in the place to just get out

We'll get clean together

And I'll find me a soapbox where I can shout it

[Guitar Solo]

[Verse 3]

Now read it in the newspaper

Ask your girlfriends and see if they know

Read it in the newspaper

Ask your girlfriends and see if they know

That my strength is ten fold girl

I'll let you see it if you want to before you go

[Verse 2]

Let's have a ball and a biscuit, sugar

And take our sweet little time about it

Let's have a ball

And take our sweet little time about it

Tell everybody in the place to just get out

We'll get clean together

And I'll find me a soapbox where I can shout it

And I can think of one or two things to say about it

Alright, listen

[Guitar Solo]

Alright, you get the point now?

[Verse 4]

It's quite possible that I'm your third man, girl

But it's a fact that I'm the seventh son

It was the other two which made me your third

But it's my mother who made me the seventh son

And right now, you could care less about me

But soon enough, you will care by the time I'm done

[Outro]

Yeah, you just wait

You stick around

You'll figure it out

[Verse 1]

We started living in an old house

My ma gave birth and we were checking it out

It was a baby boy, so we bought him a toy

It was a ray gun, and it was 1981

[Verse 2]

We named him 'Baby', he had a toothache

He started crying, it sounded like an earthquake

It didn't last long, because I stopped it

I grabbed a rag doll and stuck some little pins in it

[Verse 3]

Now we're a family, and we're alright now

We got money, and a little place to fight now

We don't know you, and we don't owe you

But if you see us around, I got something else to show you

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 4]

Now it's easy when you don't know better

You think it's sleazy? Then put it in a short letter

We keep warm, but there's just something wrong with you

Just feel that you're the hardest little button to button

[Verse 5]

I had opinions that didn't matter

I had a brain that felt like pancake batter

I got a backyard with nothing in it

Except a stick, a dog, and a box with something in it

[Chorus]

The hardest button to button

The hardest button to button

The hardest button to button

The hardest button to button, oh-oh

The hardest button to button

The hardest button to button, oh-oh

The hardest button to button

The hardest button to button

[Instrumental Break]

[Outro]

The hardest button to button

The hardest button to button

The hardest button to button

The hardest button to button, oh-oh

[Spoken Word Intro: Mort Crim]

When problems overwhelm us and sadness smothers us, where do we find the will and the courage to continue? Well the answer may come in the caring voice of a friend, a chance encounter with a book, or from a personal faith. For Janet, help came from her faith, but it also came from a squirrel. Shortly after her divorce, Janet lost her father then she lost her job, she had mounting money problems. But Janet not only survived, she worked her way out of despondency and now she says, life is good again. How could this happen? She told me that late one autumn day when she was at her lowest she watched a squirrel storing up nuts for the winter, one at a time he would take them to the nest. And she thought, if that squirrel can take care of himself with a harsh winter coming on, so can I. Once I broke my problems into small pieces, I was able to carry them, just like those acorns, one at a time

[Verse 1: Jack White]

Take all your problems and rip 'em apart

Oh, oh, oh-oh-oh

Carry them off in a shopping cart

Oh, oh, oh-oh-oh

Another thing you should've known from the start

Oh, oh-oh-oh-oh

The problems in hand are lighter than at heart

Oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh

[Verse 2: Jack White]

Be like the squirrel, girl, be like the squirrel

Oh, oh, oh-oh-oh

Give it a whirl, girl, be like the squirrel

Oh, oh, oh-oh-oh

And another thing you have to know in this world

Oh, oh, ah-oh-oh

Cut up your hair, straighten your curls

Well, your problems hide in your curls

[Outro: Jack White]

Oh, oh, oh-oh-oh

Oh, oh-oh

Oh, oh-oh-oh

Oh, oh, oh

[Verse 1]

I want to hypnotize you, baby, on the telephone

So many times I called your house just to hear the tone

And though I knew that you weren't home

I didn't mind so much cause I'm so alone

I want to hypnotize you, baby, on the telephone

[Verse 2]

I want to spin my little watch right before your eyes

You're the kind of girl a guy like me could hypnotize

And if this comes as a surprise

Just think of all those guys that would tell you lies

I want to spin my little watch right before your eyes

[Instrumental]

[Verse 3]

I want to hold your little hand if I can be so bold

And be your right hand man 'til your hands get old

Then when all the feeling's gone

Just decide if you want to keep holding on

I want to hold your little hand if I can be so bold

[Outro]

If I can be so bold

If I can be so bold

[Verse 1]

Life is so boring

It's really got me snoring

I'm wearing out the flooring in a cheap hotel

But I don't have to work and

I might be sinning

But I'm never gonna have to hear the rings of school bells

Do-do do-do-do-do do-do do-do-do-do-do

Do-do do-do-do-do do-do do-do-do-do-do

[Verse 2]

Don't you remember?

You told me in December

That a boy is not a man until he makes a stand

Well, I'm not a genius

But maybe you'll remember this

I never said I ever wanted to be a man

Do-do do-do-do-do do-do do-do-do-do-do

Do-do do-do-do-do do-do do-do-do-do-do

[Chorus]

I get nervous when she comes around

When she comes around, when she comes around

I get nervous when she comes around

When she comes around, when she comes around

I get nervous when she comes around

When she comes around, when she comes around

I get nervous when she comes around

When she comes around, when she comes around

Hey

[Verse 3]

My mom is so caring

She's really got me staring

At all the crazy little things she does for sure

And I can't seem to think of

Another kind of love

That a boy could ever get from anyone but her

Do-do do-do-do-do do-do do-do-do-do-do

Do-do do-do-do-do do-do do-do-do-do-do

[Chorus]

I get nervous when she comes around

When she comes around, when she comes around

I get nervous when she comes around

When she comes around, when she comes around

I get nervous when she comes around

When she comes around, when she comes around

I get nervous when she comes around

When she comes around, when she comes around

All right

[Chorus]

Girl, you have no faith in medicine

Oh girl, you have no faith in medicine

Acetaminophen, you see the medicine

Oh girl

[Verse 1]

Is there a way to find the cure for this implanted in a pill?

It's just the name upon the bottle which determines if it will

Is the problem you're allergic to a well familiar name?

Do you have a problem with this one if the results are the same?

[Chorus]

Acetaminophen, you see the medicine

Girl, you have no faith in medicine

Oh girl, you have no faith in medicine

Acetaminophen, you see the medicine

Oh girl

[Guitar Solo]

[Chorus]

Oh girl, you have no faith in medicine

Acetaminophen, you see the medicine

Oh girl

[Verse 2]

Well strip the bark right off a tree and just hand it this way

Don't even need a drink of water to make that headache go away

Give me a sugar pill and watch me just rattle down the street

[Outro]

Acetaminophen, you see the medicine

Oh girl, you have no faith in medicine

Oh girl, you have no faith in medicine

Oh girl, oh girl, oh girl, oh girl

[Chorus: Holly Golightly, Jack White & Both]

Well it's true that we love one another

I love Jack White like a little brother

Well Holly I love you too

But there's just so much that I don't know about you

[Verse 1: Holly Golightly & Jack White]

Jack, give me some money to pay my bills

All the dough I give you, Holly, you've been using on pain pills

Jack, will you call me if you're able?

I got your phone number written in the back of my Bible

[Verse 2: Holly Golightly & Meg White]

Jack, I think you're pulling my leg

And I think maybe I better ask Meg

Meg, do you think Jack really loves me?

You know I don't care, 'cause Jack really bugs me

Why don't you ask him now?

Well I would, but Meg, I really just don't know how

[Verse 3: Jack White, Meg White & Holly Golightly & Jack White]

Just say, “Jack, do you adore me?”

Well I would Holly, but love really bores me

Then I guess we should just be friends

I'm just kidding Holly, you know that I'll love you 'til the end

[Chorus: Holly Golightly, Jack White & Both]

Well it's true that we love one another

I love Jack White like a little brother

Well Holly I love you too

But there's just so much that I don't know about you

[Verse 4: Holly Golighty, Jack White, & Meg White]

Holly give me some of your English lovin'

If I did that Jack, I'd have one in the oven

Why don't you go off and love yourself?

If I did that Holly, there won't be anything left for anybody else

Jack, it's too bad about the way that you look

You know I gave that horse a carrot so he'd break your foot

Will the two of you cut it out?

And tell 'em what it's really all about

[Chorus: Holly Golightly, Jack White & Both]

Well it's true that we love one another

I love Jack White like a little brother

Well Holly I love you too

But there's just so much that I don't know about you

[Spoken Outro: Holly Golightly (Jack White)]

That was good (Jolly good)

Was that jolly good? (Yeah, very nice)

Jolly good, cup of tea then, Bruce

Let's celebrate

[Elephant]([Intro]

Who's to say that I'm unhappy cause I rarely smile?

Sitting, hoping, dreaming, waiting for my ship to sail

Who's to say this time I've wasted someday won't get used?

Maybe if you come around I'll start to get enthused

[Bridge]

Who's to say?

Who's to say?

[Verse 1]

Who's to say that I'm obsessed with everything you do

Just because it seems my schedule seems to shadow you

Who's to say that tired cliche, there's more fish in the sea?

I don't mind treading water cause you're the one for me

[Chorus]

You say that by now I should know you'll never love me

But who's to say that what has never been will never be?

What has been will never be

[Verse 2]

Who's to say in time I wouldn't learn how to relax?

You'd forget about my clammy hands and my nervous laugh

Who's to say the way you look at him is truly love?

Maybe they should realize I fit you like a glove

[Chorus]

You say that by now I should know you'll never love me

But who's to say that what has never been will never be?

What has been will never be

[Verse 1]

I've got a 1984 Volvo

I get in start it up and I go

It's not a vintage Cadillac

But it always gets me there and back

[Chorus]

And it'll always be good to me

Always be good to me

Always be good to me

Always be good to me

[Verse 2]

I got a beat up Silver tone amp

I plug in and it sounds like a champ

It's not a Fender Tweed Deluxe

It only cost me a couple of bucks

[Chorus]

And it'll always sound good to me

Always sound good to me

Always sound good to me

Always sound good to me

[Verse 3]

I got a girlfriend she's so true

And no other kind of girl will do

Cause I've known lots of girls in the past

And I knew none of their love would last

[Outro]

But this one will always be true to me

Always be true to me

Always be true to me

Always be true to me

Always be good to me

Always be good to me

Always be good to me

Always be good to me

Good to me

Good to me

Good to me

Hey!