There's No Home For You Here
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Releases
- Elephant (2003)
- There's No Home For You Here (2004)
Other Appearances
Credits
Performers
- Jack White: electric guitar, electric piano, voice
- Meg White: drums
Production
- Originally recorded by The White Stripes.
- Written by Jack White.
- Produced and mixed by Jack White and Liam Watson.
- Recorded November 2001/April 2002 at Toe Rag Studios in Hackney, East London.
Meaning
Band Quotes
- Jack White: "I think we went too far with that song. Our idea was to see how far we could go with an eight-track recorder, and I think how far we went is too far."
- Jack White: "I just said, let's just open this song up. I layered vocals over vocals, like, twelve different voices of myself all up the scale, all done with splicing tapes. It's anti-everything we've ever done."
- Jack White: "Yeah, we still recorded it in one day, we still recorded it on an eight-track. We were restricting ourselves in that sense. But I don't know if it's something we could do live. I mean I love the idea that live and records are two separate things. I just don't know what I think about that song anymore. I mean, at the moment we did it and finished it, it was so explosive. It seemed like a gigantic explosion of a song. You know, I don't know!"
- Jack White: "That's a Digitech Whammy pedal that I think may have been accidentally set for two octaves -- the 45th fret! It was so ear-piercing, I thought I'd leave it in there because it blew my mind [laughs]."
Trivia
- Live guitar: The Airline in standard tuning.
Lyrics
There's no home for you here, girl; go away. There's no home for you here. I'd like to think that all this constant interaction is just the kind to make you drive yourself away. Each simple gesture done by me is counteracted, and leaves me standing here with nothing else to say. Completely baffled by a backward indication that an inspired word will come across your tongue. Hands moving upward to propel the situation have simply halted and now the conversation's done. There's no home for you here, girl; go away. There's no home for you here. I'm only waiting for the proper time to tell you that it's impossible to get along with you. It's hard to look you in the face when we are talking, so it helps to have a mirror in the room. I've not been really looking forward to the performance, but there's my cue and there's a question on your face. Fortunately, I have come across an answer, which is go away, and do not leave a trace. There's no home for you here, girl; go away. There's no home for you here. Waking up for breakfast, burning matches, talking quickly, breaking baubles, throwing garbage, drinking soda, looking happy, taking pictures -- so completely stupid; just go away. There's no home for you here, girl; go away. There's no home for you here.
