There's No Home For You Here

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There's No Home For You Here is a song by The White Stripes. It can be heard on their fourth album, Elephant.

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 12 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 8-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].

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 of this constant interaction
Is just the kind of 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 quietly
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