Fell In Love With a Girl

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I'm gonna fight 'em off
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Fell in love with a girl
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a seven nation army couldn't hold me back
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I fell in love once and almost completely
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they're gonna rip it off
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She's in love with the world
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taking their time right behind my back
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But sometimes these feelings can be so misleading
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and I'm talking to myself at night
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She turns and says "are you alright?"
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because I can't forget
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I said "I must be fine cause my heart's still beating"
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back and forth through my mind
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"Come and kiss me by the riverside, yeah
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behind a cigarette
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bobby says it's fine he don't consider it cheating" now
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and the message coming from my eyes
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says leave it alone
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don't want to hear about it
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Red hair with a curl
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every single one's got a story to tell
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Mellow roll for the flavor and the eyes for peeping
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everyone knows about it
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Can't keep away from the girl
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from the queen of england to the hounds of hell
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These two sides of my brain need to have a meeting
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and if I catch it coming back my way
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Can't think of anything to do
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I'm gonna serve it to you
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Yeah, my left brain knows that all love is fleeting
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and that ain't what you want to hear
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She's just looking for something new
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but that's what I'll do
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yeah, I said it once before but it bears repeating now
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and the feeling coming from my bones
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ohhh...ohhh...ohhh...ohhh...ohhh...ohhh...ohhh...ohhh...
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says find a home
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I'm going to wichita
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can't think of anything to do
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far from this opera for evermore
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yeah, my left brain knows that all love is fleeting
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I'm gonna work the straw
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she's just looking for something new
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make the sweat drip out of every pore
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well, I said it once before but it bears repeating now
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and I'm bleeding, and I'm bleeding, and I'm bleeding
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right before the lord
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fell in love with a girl
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all the words are gonna bleed from me
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I fell in love once and almost completely
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and I will think no more
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she's in love with the world
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and the stains coming from my blood
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but sometimes these feelings can be so misleading
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tell me go back home
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she turns and says "are you alright?"
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I said "I must be fine because my heart's still beating"
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"come and kiss me by the riverside, yeah
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bobby says it's fine he don't consider it cheating" now
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ohhh...ohhh...ohhh...ohhh...ohhh...ohhh...ohhh...ohhh...
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can't think of anything to do
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yeah, my left brain knows that all love is fleeting
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she's just looking for something new
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well, I said it once before but it bears repeating now
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Revision as of 22:35, 27 August 2006

Fell In Love With a Girl is a song by The White Stripes. It can be heard on their third album, White Blood Cells. It was released as a single in April 2002.

Contents

Track Listing

CD

  • 1. "Fell In Love With a Girl" (White/White)
  • 2. "Let's Shake Hands" (White/White)
  • 3. "Lafayette Blues" (White/White)

7"

  • 1. "Fell In Love With a Girl" (White/White)
  • 2. "I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself" (B. Bacharach/H. David)

Facts

  • The video has been awarded 3 MTV Music Awards for Best Editing, Best Special Effects and Breakthrough Video.

Covers

  • Comedy musician and parodist "Weird Al" Yankovic sang a polka version of this and included it in a medley of other rock songs he covered called "Angry White Boy Polka".

Lyrics


Fell in love with a girl
I fell in love once and almost completely
She's in love with the world
But sometimes these feelings can be so misleading
She turns and says "are you alright?"
I said "I must be fine cause my heart's still beating"
"Come and kiss me by the riverside, yeah
bobby says it's fine he don't consider it cheating" now

Red hair with a curl
Mellow roll for the flavor and the eyes for peeping
Can't keep away from the girl
These two sides of my brain need to have a meeting
Can't think of anything to do
Yeah, my left brain knows that all love is fleeting
She's just looking for something new
yeah, I said it once before but it bears repeating now
ohhh...ohhh...ohhh...ohhh...ohhh...ohhh...ohhh...ohhh...

can't think of anything to do
yeah, my left brain knows that all love is fleeting
she's just looking for something new
well, I said it once before but it bears repeating now

fell in love with a girl
I fell in love once and almost completely
she's in love with the world
but sometimes these feelings can be so misleading
she turns and says "are you alright?"
I said "I must be fine because my heart's still beating"
"come and kiss me by the riverside, yeah 
bobby says it's fine he don't consider it cheating" now
ohhh...ohhh...ohhh...ohhh...ohhh...ohhh...ohhh...ohhh...

can't think of anything to do
yeah, my left brain knows that all love is fleeting
she's just looking for something new
well, I said it once before but it bears repeating now

Video

The music video for Fell In Love With a Girl skyrocketed The White Stripes to fame. It is one of the band's most infamous music videos, and it is largely considered their best. The video was directed by Michel Gondry (who directed the Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground video and would also later direct the videos for The Hardest Button to Button and The Denial Twist), and showed The White Stripes and other various places and figures as Legos.

Director Michel Gondry used a combination of computer animation and a sort of claymation type method for this one. The duo were shot on the streets of London with extremely heavy makeup. There were also blue screen scenes shot then picked the scenes that could be rendered in Lego. The process took 15 animators more than six weeks to complete. So basically you have a really heavy pixilated effect applied to live footage of the band combined with a more primitive animation with legos. An interesting side note is the first meeting between the director and the band. "One day he came to a restaurant and he had Jack's head in Lego," explained Meg White. 'This is what I want to do for the video; it's perfect, really," Jack said Gondry told them. "You couldn't argue with that. When someone brings a Lego sculpture of your head to dinner and says this is what the video's going to be, you pretty much say, 'That's it, go ahead.' "

Video awards

  • Nominated - Visionary Video - VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards - Fell In Love With A Girl
  • Nominated - Best Video of The Year - 2002 MTV Video Music Awards - Fell In Love With A Girl
  • Won - Breakthrough Video - 2002 MTV Video Music Awards - Fell In Love With A Girl
  • Won - Best Special Effects - 2002 MTV Video Music Awards - Fell In Love With A Girl
  • Won - Best Editing - 2002 MTV Video Music Awards - Fell In Love With A Girl

External links

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