Screwdriver

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Screwdriver is a song by The White Stripes. It can be heard on the band's first album, The White Stripes.

Band Quotes

• Jack White : "We were just goofing around. We just started doing this riff and there was this screwdriver laying there in the room so I started singing about it - what I'd do with it - ya know being angry. We thought it sounded really good and we thought why don't we work on this."
• Jack White : "I'd got threatened that week, just walking up the street and Screwdriver was retaliation. This feeling that I owe somebody I don't even know something, and at the same time my life is threatened. Like the line, 'I love people like a brother now/But I'm not going to be their mother now.' I don't need to owe anybody, I need to protect myself."

Facts

• This song is usually performed as the last song in a White Stripes concert.

Lyrics

Tuesday morning now
I gotta have somewhere to go now
I call up Tommy now
I call him on the telephone 
Won't you wake up and come with me now
I'm going to the pawn and loan
Walking down thirty three
Walking on thirty o 
(yeah)

What am I supposed to think 
I drop a nickel in the sink
I love people like a brother now 
But I'm not gonna be their mother now
What if someone walked up to me 
And like an apple cut right through me
I'm not just gonna stand there grinnin
Cause I'm not the one who's sinnin 
Screwdriver
whoo-hoo...hoo-hoo...

now that you have heard my story now 
I've got a little ending to it now 
whenever you go out alone 
take a little dog a bone 
and think about your little sister
and then you got to drive it home 
screwdriver 

I got a little feeling goin' now 
I got a little feeling goin' now
I got a little feeling goin' now
I got a little feeling goin' now 
I got a little feeling goin' now
I got a little feeling goin' now
I got a little feeling goin' now 
I got a little feeling goin' now
I got a little feeling goin' now
I got a little feeling goin' now 
I got a little feeling goin' now
now now