The Air Near My Fingers

Lyrics Information

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

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

yeah
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

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
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

(around)

Performed by The White Stripes
Written by Jack White
(Peppermint Stripe Music, BMI)
BMI # 6406570

Releases

  • Elephant
Quotes

Jack White:

    "I almost took it off. The lyrics don't really mean anything. The only thing I liked about it was where I talk about mothers, 'cos mothers come up a lot in the album. And there's a bridge in there I like. Everything else I hated."

Jack White:

    "That was where the title came at the end of the song actually, the opposite really. It just seemed to be whoever the character was in the song that was what was happening around him at the time."
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