I'm Finding It Harder to Be a Gentleman
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Releases
- White Blood Cells (2001)
- I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself (2003)
Other Appearances
Credits
Performers
- Jack White: electric guitar, acoustic piano, electric piano, vocals
- Meg White: drums
Production
- Originally recorded by The White Stripes.
- Written by Jack White and Meg White.
- Produced by Jack White.
- Mixed by Jack White and Stewart Sikes.
- Engineered by Stewart Sikes.
- Mastered by Fred Kevorkian at Absolute Audio.
- Recorded February 2001 at Easley-McCain Recording, Memphis, Tennessee.
Meaning
Band Quotes
Jack White: "That song nails it -- a feeling, the Jonathan Richman-type point of view. The guy standing in the corner with his hands in his pockets, but..."
Trivia
Lyrics
Well, I'm finding it harder to be a gentleman every day. All the manners that I've been taught have slowly died away. But if I held the door open for you, it would make your day. You think that I care about me and only me, when every single girl needs help climbing up a tree. Well, I know it don't take much to satisfy me. Maybe it's whatever's in my hand that's distracting me, but if I could find emotion to stimulate devotion, well, then you'd see. Well, I'm finding it hard to say that I need you twenty times a day. I feel comfortable so, baby, why don't you feel the same? Have a doctor come and visit us, and tell us which one is sane. I never said I wouldn't throw my jacket in the mud for you, but my father gave it to me so maybe I should carry you. Then you said, "You almost dropped me," so then I did, and I got mud on my shoes.
