Broken Bricks
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Releases
- The White Stripes (1999)
Other Appearances
Credits
Performers
- Jack White: electric guitar, lead vocals
- Meg White: drums, bell (I'm assuming it's Meg ringing that thing)
Production
- Originally performed by The White Stripes.
- Lyrics by Stephen Gillis.
- Music by Jack White.
- Produced by Jack White.
- Co-produced and engineered by Jim Diamond.
- Recorded in January 1999 at Ghetto Recorders, Cass Corridor, Detroit.
Meaning
Band Quotes
Trivia
- Live guitar: The Airline in standard tuning.
Lyrics
Have you been to the broken bricks, girl? Snuck down through the cyclone fence?
Past the caution tape, and the security gate, back way to the breakroom bench?
Well, there's a little corner where you first got kissed, and felt your boyfriend's fist, and made the company list.
And there's a little spot where your dad ate lunch, and your brother landed his first punch. Yeah, yeah, yeah...
Well, have you been to the broken bricks, girl? Seen the barrels that they left behind?
Seen the machine that cut aluminium clean, and got tape from the caution sign?
And broke into the window panes? Just a rusty colored rain that drives a man insane.
You try to jump over water but you land in oil. Climb the ladder up a broken crane. Yeah, yeah, yeah...
Don't go to the broken bricks, girl. It's not a place that you want to be.
Think of the spot your father spent his life -- demolition calls it Building C.
Demolition calls it Building C now, demolition calls it Building C now.
