maybe jasper does the astro
maybe jasper does the astro
maybe jasper does the astro astro
go
maybe lily does the astro
maybe lily does the astro
maybe lily does the astro astro
woo
hey
well maybe jackson does the astro
maybe jackson does the astro
maybe jackson does the astro astro
hey
maybe mama does the astro
maybe mama does the astro
maybe mama does the astro astro
well maybe tesla does the astro
maybe tesla does the astro
maybe edison is ac dc
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Performed by The White Stripes
Written by The White Stripes (Peppermint Stripe Music, BMI)
BMI # 5807782
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Jack White:
"The Astro is whatever you do in secret that nobody knows about. Everybody
does the Astro. Jimmy does the Astro. Actually for awhile there, right
before we recorded the album, that song Astro was just an instrumental-I
was just mouthing syllables, I didn't say anything, I didn't write lyrics
to that until just a few minutes before we recorded it. And that ended up
becoming about something I had been thinking about. It's about the things
that people do in secret-I called that the Astro cause it just had a ring
to it, but the things people do, like I guess the clue to that was 'Thomas
Edison is AC/DC.' He was only into direct current, he didn't believe in
alternating current, and that was supposedly his downfall of delivering
electrical power to people. But maybe he secretly knew that was the right
way to do things. That was my only attempt at trying to do a meaningless
one. I had another dog I said that Astro - Astro's something people do in
secret - things people maybe do in secret - I said maybe jasper does the
Astro - that was my other dog - but uh I never wrote a song about Elroy
though."
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