Astro

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Astro is a song by The White Stripes.

Song Meaning/Band Quotes On The Song

• Jack White :
  • "The Astro is whatever you do in secret that nobody knows about. Everybody does the Astro. Jimmy does the Astro. Actually for awhile there, right before we recorded the album, that song Astro was just an instrumental-I was just mouthing syllables, I didn't say anything, I didn't write lyrics to that until just a few minutes before we recorded it. And that ended up becoming about something I had been thinking about. It's about the things that people do in secret-I called that the Astro cause it just had a ring to it, but the things people do, like I guess the clue to that was 'Thomas Edison is AC/DC.' He was only into direct current, he didn't believe in alternating current, and that was supposedly his downfall of delivering electrical power to people. But maybe he secretly knew that was the right way to do things. That was my only attempt at trying to do a meaningless one. I had another dog I said that Astro - Astro's something people do in secret - things people maybe do in secret - I said maybe jasper does the Astro - that was my other dog - but uh I never wrote a song about Elroy though."

Trivia

• This is usually performed live with the song "Jack the Ripper".

Lyrics

maybe jasper does the astro
maybe jasper does the astro
maybe jasper does the astro astro
;
maybe lily does the astro
maybe lily does the astro
maybe lily does the astro astro
woo
hey
well maybe jackson does the astro
maybe jackson does the astro
maybe jackson does the astro astro
hey
maybe mama does the astro
maybe mama does the astro
maybe mama does the astro astro

well maybe tesla does the astro
maybe tesla does the astro
maybe edison is ac/dc