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Jack White - Lazaretto

Jack White - Lazaretto Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Lazaretto
Released: 2014

Lazaretto Lyrics

Lazaretto

The first single from Jack White's second solo album, the song also serves as its title track. The record takes its name from the quarantine stations built for maritime travelers between the 15th and 19th centuries. White told The Observer he is so busy these days that the idea of such a place became almost exotic: "I fantasise about living in one-room apartments and being in a work camp somewhere, where there's absolutely nothing around me but a cot and a teapot and a sink," he said.

A limited edition 7-inch of the song was recorded, pressed and released in 3 hours, 55 minutes and 21 seconds, breaking the world record for the world's fastest released disc. Swiss polka trio Vollgas Kompanie, previously held the record when they issued their album Live one day after they recorded it.

The B-side of the single is a cover of Elvis Presley's song "Power of My Love."

The song features some Spanish lyrics: "Yo trabajo duro, como en madera y yeso," roughly translates to "I work hard, like in wood and plaster." White explained his use of Spanish to NPR: "The character who's singing this song is bragging about himself, but he's actually bragging about real things he's actually accomplished and real things that he actually does, not imaginary things or things he would like to do," he said. "Because sometimes you see people who, they sing from the heart, but they haven't done anything, you know? And their lives are not very interesting or whatever. So this character in this song actually has worked very hard in his life and he's done some interesting things."

You can't sing a lyric like 'I work hard,'" White added. "You can't get away with saying it. So I had to change it to Spanish: 'Yo trabajo duro.' 'I work hard, like in wood and plaster.' There's sort of a triple meaning, that wood and plaster are hard surfaces — as in a painter who 'works in oils.' It's sort of bad Spanish, because you wouldn't say como [to mean] 'as in.'"

Some of Lazaretto's lyrics were inspired by short stories and plays White wrote when he was 19 after he'd dropped out of Wayne State University. He came across the box containing his prose in his attic and though much of it was embarrassing, the odd phrase and character was salvageable. "I thought, 'What if you write a song with yourself?' Collaborate with your 19-year-old self on a song," White told The Observer, before quipping: "And don't give him any royalties."

Lazaretto topped the Billboard 200 album chart in its debut week. The vinyl LP version also sold 40,000 copies in its first seven days, setting the record for the largest sales week for a vinyl album since SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991.

The vinyl LP's high sales were helped by its unique features, which include including hidden tracks under the inner label, the ability to play the album at three different speeds and holograms that appear on the record's surface when it's being played.

This won the Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance at the 2015 ceremony.

Jack White - Three Women

Jack White - Three Women Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Lazaretto
Released: 2014

Three Women Lyrics

Yeah, I got Three Women
Red, blonde hair, and brunette
I got three women
Red, blonde, and brunette
It took a digital photograph to pick which one I like

Well, I'm lonely at night, but I stay up until the break of day
Yeah, I'm lonely at night, but I stay up until the break of day
How come I gotta have a woman to blur these bruise away
Yeah, alright, I said

Lawdy lord, lawdy lord, lawdy lord
Lawdy lord, lawdy lord, lawdy lord
Lawdy, lawdy, lawdy, lord

Yeah, I got one in California and one back in Detroit
I got one in California and one back in Detroit
I brought my woman to Nashville, cast a bottle with her daddy all night

Yeah, well, she hogged my ashes, but she took them too far away
Yeah, she hogged my ashes, but she took them too far away
She said she loves her daddy
But only when she got bills to pay
Aw, listen, all right

Lawdy lord, lawdy lord, lawdy lord
Lawdy lord, lawdy lord, lawdy lord
Lawdy, lawdy, lawdy, lord

Yeah, yeah
Well, I wish I could tell you just what my three women do
Yeah, I wish I could tell you just what my three women do
But if I open my mouth, well, that'll be three women I lose

Yeah, now I know what you're thinking
What gives me the right?
Yeah, I know what you're thinking
What gives you the right?

Well, these women must be getting something
Cause they come and see me every night

Lawdy lord, lawdy lord, lawdy lord
Lawdy lord, lawdy lord, lawdy lord
Lawdy, lawdy, lawdy, lord

Lawdy

Writer/s: MCTELL, WILLIE / WHITE, JACK N
Publisher: Peermusic Publishing
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Three Women

This song is a cheeky refashioning of Blind Willie McTell's 1928 "Three Women Blues." White explained to Uncut magazine why he recorded his own version. "A friend of mine had heard 'Three Women Blues' at a party and I thought it was an interesting song," he said. "I had covered Blind Willie McTell songs in the past and I came up with that first line - 'I've got three women, red, blonde and brunette' - just as a starting point for myself. I thought, 'I'm gonna do a completely modern version of this song.' It doesn't really have much to do with Blind Willie McTell's song at all beyond the first line."

"I also think his song is a lesson in how it's all false to begin with, how you shouldn't believe these are all real events for the songwriter or the person singing," he continued. "It's like when Elvis was singing his songs - he didn't write the songs so they're not about him. That's one thing people really get wrong about all the old blues musicians - that every song they were singing was from the heart and about their own specific problems. I highly doubt that Blind Willie McTell had three girlfriends at the same time - it's hard to pull off for anyone, especially someone who's blind."

The song finds White hollering: "I got three women, red blonde and brunette. It took a digital photograph to pick which one I liked."

A digital photograph is the sort of modern technology that the famously techno-phobe singer wouldn't normally take to. White told Rolling Stone that there's a difference between the narrators of his songs and his own beliefs. "If you know anything about me, do you think I like digital photography? No. I don't," he said. "So obviously this song is not about f---ing Jack White."

White was taking out his frustrations on those who criticize his songs without understanding them.

Much of this song was recorded live in the studio, but Cory Younts' harmonica solo and White's vocals was overdubbed later.

Old Crow Medicine Show mandolin player Cory Younts was loaned out to Jack White's backup band, The Buzzards, on the world tour to support his 2012 Blunderbuss album. He returned the following year, contributing harmonica, Korg Synthesizer, mandolin, piano, shaker and backing vocals to Lazaretto.

Jack White - High Ball Stepper

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Jack White - High Ball Stepper Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Lazaretto
Released: 2014

High Ball Stepper Lyrics

High Ball Stepper

Jack White - That Black Bat Licorice

Jack White - That Black Bat Licorice Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Lazaretto
Released: 2014

That Black Bat Licorice Lyrics

That Black Bat Licorice

The Lazaretto album was named after a word for a quarantine hospital island.

The title was inspired by this personal song, which finds White talking about being a confined prisoner in a hospital. "That really is me, personally," he told NPR. "My sort of fantasy that I have is, I wish that some other forces, some powers that be, would push me into this scenario for a month and lock me somewhere, instead of me doing it to myself all the time. I'm always imposing restrictions on myself. And so I guess my fantasy is, it would be so nice to be in a quarantine hospital, but not to die from it - just to know that I had to stay here for two months and I can't do anything else. That's why I named the album Lazaretto."

The song finds White virtually rapping the lyrics as he references a fast black hearse, Nietzche, Freud and Horace in the same couplet:

She's built for speed like a black castrum doloris
Good for the needy like Nietzche, Freud and Horace

"That's basically a hip-hop song," White told Jam! Music . "I wasn't going for it but I just found myself in the middle of it. I think I've done that a lot in my career and people haven't noticed. 'Icky Thump' is a hip-hop track. 'Freedom at 21' on the last album was a hip-hop track but I don't think anyone really categorizes that."

The "three-in-one" interactive video features a live action clip directed by White himself, an animated version helmed by James Blagden, and a "headbang" edition shot by Brad Holland. Viewers can switch between the three visuals by holding down the '3' or 'B' keys on their keyboard.