Jack White - Acoustic Recordings 1998 - 2016 Album Lyrics

Walking home to you
Walking home to you
I'm talking through my wounds that I'm bleeding out for you
Talking through my wounds
Walking home to you

I listen when I can
I listen when I can
To this picture of you I carry in my hand
Lets me hear you say
You're never far away

And the dirt beneath my heels in the road
Obeys command to me and serves me as I go
And though it help to know you're never far away
I can't help wondering how you might feel about me today

Ada let me know
Ada let me know
Will you want me back or is it better if I go
Will you want me back
Ada let me know

That Carolina wind
That Carolina Wind
It blows in my eyes and makes me realize
The trouble that I'm in
That Carolina Wind

And the dirt beneath my heels in the road
Obeys command to me and serves me as I go
And though it help to know you're never far away
I can't help wondering how you might feel about me today

You'll see me in a dream
You'll see me in a dream
You'll see me in a dream across a mountain stream
And you will hear me say
You're never far away
Never far away
Never far away

One, two, three, four

Love is such a selfish thing
It's always crying, "Me, me, me"
And it's always trying to mess up all my plans
And I work real hard to make you understand
And I'll try my best to help you understand

I've been trying over the years
To try and overcome these fears
But nothing I come up with proves I can
And I work real hard to make you understand
Yeah, I'll try my best to help you understand

I'm on a train, but I can not rest upon it
I'm on a train, but it won't stay on the rails
And I got a sailboat with her name painted on it
But I don't know how to sail

Someone smarter than me and you might
End up solving a clue or two
But could they make it happen with their hands?
Can they build it up from nothing with their hands?
I could lose my mind just trying to understand

Love is such a selfish thing
It's always crying, "Me, me, me"
And it's always trying to mess up all my plans
And I work real hard to make you understand
And I'll try my best to help you understand

I want love to roll me over slowly
Stick a knife inside me, and twist it all around

I want love to grab my fingers gently
Slam them in a doorway, put my face into the ground

I want love to murder my own mother and
Take her off to somewhere like hell or up above

I want love to change my friends to enemies
Change my friends to enemies and show me how it's all my fault

I won't let love disrupt, corrupt or interrupt me
I won't let love disrupt, corrupt or interrupt me
Yeah, I won't let love disrupt, corrupt, or interrupt me anymore

I want love to walk right up and bite me
Grab a hold of me and fight me leave me dying on the ground

And I want love to, split my mouth wide open and
Cover up my ears and never let me hear a sound

I want love to, forget that you offended me
Or how you have defended me when everybody tore me down

Yeah, I want love to change my friends to enemies
Change my friends to enemies and show me how it's all my fault

Yeah I won't let love disrupt, corrupt or interrupt me
I won't let love disrupt, corrupt or interrupt me
I won't let love disrupt, corrupt, or interrupt me anymore

The sun and the moon never change
They just rearrange, the night and the new day
Gold exchanges for silver
And a light on a river gets carried away

On and on, on and on
On and on, on and on

I lift up my head and I wonder
Just who it is calming, calling my name now
I trip on my way and I blunder
My head falling under a blanket of shame

On and on, on and on
On and on, on and on

High and low may I go
But God only knows just where I am going
High and low may I go
But God only knows just where I am going

The people around me won't let me
Become what I need to, they want me the same
I look at myself and I want to
Just cover my eyes and give myself a new name

The storms in the sky never worry
They don't have to hurry, they move in their own way
But I have to choose what to do
How to act, what to think, how to talk, what to say

On and on, on and on
On and on, on and on

On and on, on and on
On and on, on and on
On and on, on and on
On and on, on and on

I had my dream, I held your hand on that broad avenue
We crossed the road and never spoke to another as we flew
We left your man alone in drag, laughing there at us
A romantic bust, a blundered turned, an explosive blunderbuss

An ancient grand hotel of Persian thread and ivory
And when your man would turn his head, I'd see you look at me
Pools of brown and sea of red and demons in your pocket
That same romance performed a dance inside a silver locket

Da, da, da, da
Da, da, da, da

Corner exit, not tall enough to walk out standin' straight
Designed by men so ladies would have to lean back in their gait
You grabbed my arm and left with me but you were not allowed to
You took me to a public place to quietly blend into
Such a trick pretending not to be doin' what you want to
But seems like everybody does this every waking moment

I laid you down and touched you like the two of us both needed
Safe to say that others might not approve of this and pleaded
"So selfish them" would be their cry and who'd be brave to argue
Doin' what two people need is never on the menu

Da, da, da, da
Da, da, da, da

When I get into the game
But it's always the same
I'm the man with the name
Hip Eponymous poor boy, poor boy
Call me whatever you may
I ain't stoppin' the train
I got a pill for the pain
Hip Eponymous poor boy, poor boy

And I know
That I can't defeat you
Yeah but you don't worry now
I ain't going to preach to you
Well, there ya go
But I'll be going right there with you
Yeah wherever you'll be
You'll be lookin' at me

But don't get out of your chair
Or put a bow in your hair
You might be makin' 'em stare
So leave the care to the poor boy, the poor boy
And that's the name of the game
Keep on stayin' the same
Ain't nobody to blame
Nobody but the poor boy, the poor boy

Well okay
So you fell asleep today
What's funny to me though
Is that you did that yesterday
You might think I'm mad
Doing all the things that I don't need to do
But while you're laughing at me
Well I'll be laughing at you

So I get into the game
But always keep it the same
And I'll be usin' your name
But they'll be yellin' at me "poor boy, poor boy"
But I'll be happy for you
'Cause you got nothin' to do
And I'll be singin' the blues
Walkin' around singin' "poor boy, poor boy"

Sometimes
A cold shiver comes over me
And it turns me on
When the song takes over me
But alright
I can't fight it the odds are against me
But I can't sit still
Because I know that I will

And you'll be watching me girl
Takin' over the world
Let the stripes unfurl
Gettin' rich singin' "poor boy, poor boy"
And I'll be comin' to play
I do it every day
And the title will stay
Hip Eponymous poor boy, poor boy
Yeah

(One two three, two two three)

I guess I should go to sleep
Too hard standin' on my own two feet
Been walkin' too long on a dead end street
I guess I should go to sleep
Yeah

Well I guess I'll take off my shoes
Head upstairs and then watch the news
That's another way to lose these walkin' blues
I guess I'll take off my shoes

Well upstairs, upstaged, and upset
Keepin' quiet is probably my best bet yet
'Cause I ain't managed to say the right thing yet
Well I guess I should go back to bed, yeah

Guess I should go to sleep
It's too hard standin' on my own two feet
Been runnin' too long on an endless street
Well I guess I should go
To
Sleep
Sleep
Sleep
Sleep

You drink water
I drink gasoline
One of us is happy
One of us is mean
I love you
But honey, why don't you love me?
Yeah, well, I love you
But honey, why don't you love me?

Just one drink gets me closer
Just one drink, it rolls you over
But then I start to think you're growing colder
The older and older, I am

Well, I watch TV
You watch the ceiling
And when you turn over
I get a funny feeling
I should grab my rock and rye
And pop the top until my baby comes clean
Yeah, I should grab my rock and rye
And pop the top until my baby comes clean

Well, just one sip and then you showed me
You bust your lip, I want spottieottie
So, come on take a trip if you wanna know me
And put a fork in the road with me
Alright

Just one drink gets me closer
Just one drink, it rolls you over
But then I start to think you're growing colder
The older and older, I am

You drink water
I drink gasoline
One of us is happy
The other one is mean
I love you
But honey, why don't you love me?
Yeah, well, I love you
But honey, why don't you love me?

Yeah, I love you
Honey, why don't you love me?

Every time I'm doing what I want to
Somebody comes and tells me it's wrong
Whenever I'm doing just as I please
Somebody cuts me down to my knees
Yeah, somebody cuts me down to my knees

In a time when everybody feels entitled
Why can't I feel entitled too?
Somebody took away my god given right
I guess God must have gave it to you
Yeah, I guess God must have slipped it to you

Stop what you're doing and get back in line
I hear this from people all the time
If we can't be happy then you can't be too
I'm tired of being told what to do
Yeah, I'm sick of being told what to do

There are children today who were lied to
Told the world is rightfully there's
They can have what they want, whenever they want
They take like Caesar and nobody cares
Live like Caesar and nobody cares

I can't bring myself to take without penance
Or atonement or respect from my brow[?]
Though the world may be spoiled and getting worse every day
Don't they feel like they're cheated somehow
I feel like I've been cheated somehow

Stop what you're doing and get back in line
I hear this from people all the time
If we can't be happy then you can't be too
I'm tired of being told what to do
Yeah, I'm sick of being told what to do

I guess nobody on earth is entitled
Not mothers, not children, not kings
Not a one single person on God's golden shore
Is entitled to one single thing
We don't deserve a single damn thing

Who is the who, telling who what to do?
Who is the who, telling who what to do?
Who is the who, telling who what to do?
Tell me who, tell me who, tell me who

Well, Want and Able were crossing the road
Want had a feeling there was something he was owed
But Able broke it to him that there's a social code
So walk straight down the middle now and do what we're told
Walk straight down the middle now and do what we're told

Who is the who, telling who what to do?
Who is the who, telling who what to do?
Who is the who, telling who what to do?
Tell me who, tell me who, tell me who

Want said that didn't feel so good
To never be fulfilled
Forever stressed out and impatient
Always saying "just over the next hill"
Always saying "just over the next hill"

Who is the who, telling who what to do?
Being able is to freedom what wanting is to cruel
It's hard to tell it seems, which one of them's the fool
Is freedom a gift, that we only give to the ones that say "I love you"?

Who is the who, telling who what to do?
Who is the who, telling who what to do?
Who is the who, telling who what to do?
Tell me who, tell me who, tell me who

Now, Want and Able are two different things
One is desire, and the other is the means
Like I wanna hold you, and see you, and feel you in my dreams
But that's not possible, something simply will not let me