Fell In Love With a Girl

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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 1 Track Listing 1.1 CD 1.2 7" 2 Facts 3 Covers 4 Lyrics 5 Video 6 External links

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

I'm gonna fight 'em off
a seven nation army couldn't hold me back
they're gonna rip it off
taking their time right behind my back
and I'm talking to myself at night
because I can't forget
back and forth through my mind
behind a cigarette
and the message coming from my eyes
says leave it alone

don't want to hear about it
every single one's got a story to tell
everyone knows about it
from the queen of england to the hounds of hell
and if I catch it coming back my way
I'm gonna serve it to you
and that ain't what you want to hear
but that's what I'll do
and the feeling coming from my bones
says find a home

I'm going to wichita
far from this opera for evermore
I'm gonna work the straw
make the sweat drip out of every pore
and I'm bleeding, and I'm bleeding, and I'm bleeding
right before the lord
all the words are gonna bleed from me
and I will think no more
and the stains coming from my blood
tell me go back home

Video

The music video for the song, directed by Alex and Martin, consists The video, directed by Alex and Martin, consists of one seemingly continuous shot through a tunnel of mirrored black, white and red triangles, each containing a picture of either Jack or Meg playing. During the video, when the song reaches a rockish point, lights flash. Images of walking skeleton soldiers (a reference to Ray Harryhausen's Jason and the Argonauts) also appear regularly. An elephant (to coincide for their album) appears once near the end.

External links