I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself

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I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself is a song by The White Stripes. It can be heard on their fourth album, Elephant.

Band Quotes

Meg: "I decided to do to do that one. Maybe like, maybe two years ago I listened to the Dusty Springfield version of it, and I could just kind of hear us doing that song in my head. It was a really emotional song that I just felt very close to, so we started doing it at that point, and we were doing it live for a couple of years."

Jack: "That was Meg's baby. Definitely Dusty's version. I think one of the best recordings we've made. I like me singing on this. It's mellowed. When the first album was done I got a lot of people saying 'Robert Plant!' That just hurt my feelings. The one member of Led Zeppelin I didn't really care about!"

Jack: "The recording we did of that is the best recording of a cover song we've ever done, it's really just a blues song in its purest form."

Jack: I really love him [Burt Bacharach]. I love his songwriting. With this particular song, Meg was fond of it and wanted us to do it, and we started to do it live. I love it because I started recognizing that it was really a blues song in its purest form, when you strip down the Bacharach production. The essence of the song was blues, so I really adapted to that.

Jack: "No, we haven't heard from Burt Bacharach and Hal David. I am not sure they know about that yet. Possibly when the album comes out we will get a note or something. Meg wanted to do that one. It was one of her favorites of Bacharach. We were coming off the back of the Dusty Springfield version. We started to play it live and started to make it our own. I like the idea of keeping someone's songs alive for the next generation if we can."

Jack: "I thought it was a blues song, really, in its purest form. It was the same notion and the same kinda chord structure. But I definitely look up to Burt Bacharach, I think he's a really great writer."

Jack: "I love the Tin Pan Alley songwriters, the ones that were given a job to write a hit song for a play or a musical. It was such an intricate thing, where they're given a task and they have to figure it out and make it happen. I wish I had that talent, but I don't know if I really do."

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Lyrics

I just don't know what to do with myself
I don't know what to do with myself
planning everything for two
doing everything with you
and now that we're through
I just don't know what to do

I just don't know what to do with myself
I don't know what to do with myself
movies only make me sad
parties make me feel as bad
cause I'm not with you
I just don't know what to do

like a summer rose
needs the sun and rain
I need your sweet love
to beat love away

well I don't know what to do with myself
just don't know what to do with myself
planning everything for two
doing everything with you
and now that we're through
I just don't know what to do

like a summer rose
needs the sun and rain
I need your sweet love
to beat love away

I just don't know what to do with myself
just don't know what to do with myself
just don't know what to do with myself
I don't know what to do with myself