Knock on wood
« Knock on wood » is one of the two alternative version of « the white stripes ». Ten songs re-arranged and re-interpreted with acoustic instruments. Guitars, cellos, violons and percussions strip the song up to a new mood, as Fred Vernay renew the vocal lines with an intimate approach which brings the songs in a floating and melancholic dimension.
LYRICS
I’m driving downtown
Under the shades of lights
I’m driving fast
I’ve got no time to lose
Nothing to break thru
From my previous ideals
There’s nothing left
There’s a thing you deny
Then deal with it
There’s a thing you can fight
Then deal with it
Well you know what i mean
you’re not so clean
don’t try make me roll over
On my way to the crime scene
I’m grinding my teeth
There’s a bad taste i feel
inside my mouth
The taste of betrayal and
Lost illusions
When your best friends become
(your) Worst enemies
Screw me ’til
you give me scars.
Everything I want is now,
all my senses overpowered.
Your eyes spark,
with love and lust.
Your hips grind,
my pain to dust.
You’ve been burning
in my blood,
You’ve been burning
in my blood.
Blood-fire in you,
tastes so sweet.
Tattoos writhing,
in the heat.
You’ve been burning,
in my blood.
Bite me, ‘til I shiver.
Rock your body,
quicker and quicker.
Find in me,
your secret obsession,
sear my soul,
with your carnal
possession.
You’ve been burning
in my blood,
You’ve been burning
in my blood
Blood-fire in you,
tastes so sweet.
Tattoos writhing,
in the heat.
You’ve been burning,
in my blood,
In my blood babe.
We’re riding way far out of sight
Got a map off a crazy guide
It will show us the way tonight
Lift you up carry you far
Cause I believe in you and me
You look cool under moving lights
There won’t be no more screaming fights
Cast you into the neon night
Take you to where the stars are right
(Burnt faces all around)
White skies are open wide
Air screaming through an altered state
Wheels burning as we lock our eyes
Bring us speeding through heaven’s gate
Lift you up carry you far
Cause I believe in you and me
You look cool under moving lights
There won’t be no more screaming fights
Cast you into the neon night
Take you to where the stars are right
All the things that I’ve been missing
All these things that have been broken
You watch the line the seventh attack
And it’s frozen outside you’re frozen inside
Torn by the screams too much to bare
You’re frozen inside torn by the screams heart beating
Have I long to wait
Have I come to wait for the injury
Have I long to wait for the girl to cry
Or just hang on and take in the scenery
Into someone’s eyes the crush of a loaded crowd
There’s a hope you can feel in time
The song of a deathless guy
It tightens you (a thunder rolled in your soul)
Across the road a hundred moans
The fire the twitches the longing calls
Far out to sea you’re begging me
But I can never feel what you feel
Have I come too late are there tears to cry
Have I come to wait for the injury
Have I learned my fate left me high and dry
Or just hang on and take in the scenery
There’s no need to pretend I’ve been looking for you.
You’re the only one I need
You’re the only one I own
The picture in my house
You’re the one that closes the mind to reality
You’re the one that breaks our fears
And eludes our dreams
I can’t hide anything from you, you have my trust
Some buried fears and buried love
Come out from my mind
Passion and obvious innocence
Seem something like a lie
I may burn in hell for something I could tell
But the way you ease me makes me tell the truth
I can’t hide anything from you, you have my trust
Those buried things I tried to hide
Were spit out from my mouth
And broken dreams and self confidence
Are all I left behind
I couldn’t hide anything from you, you had my trust
I could dive into you
Feel the price I will drive
Until I’m fully satisfied
You stopped fucking age of 32
You had probably better to do
Feel the price I will drive
Until I’m fully satisfied
You could be my friend
You should take my hand
We could take the land
And never get old
Funny maid sunny bitch
Your hidden head to reach the ditch
Feel the price I will drive
Until I’m fully satisfied
No I don’t say much and I don’t show much
But I’d do anything to feel your touch
I’m made of ice but I will die
If you leave me unsatisfied
You could be my friend …
And Mourners to and fro
Kept treading treading till it seemed
That Sense was breaking through
And when they all were seated,
A Service like a Drum
Kept beating beating till I thought
My Mind was going numb
And then I heard them lift a Box
And creak across my Soul
With those same Boots of Lead again
Then Space began to toll
As all the Heavens were a Bell,
And Being but an Ear
And I and Silence some strange Race
Wrecked solitary here
And then a Plank in Reason broke
And I dropped down and down
And hit a World at every plunge
And Finished knowing then.
Sippin’ champagne yeah that’s me
All I made today I’ll burn
Will these pricks never learn
Expense accounts and flash fast cars
With this flow we’ll be fucking stars
Dog eat dog and here’s the bitch
Sell more lies get rich quick
Let me tell you lies for money
You know it makes life sweet as honey
Let me tell you crap to justify
I’ve got to make it dirt to make it right
Lies I got an endless store
That’s it baby raise my score
Money it’s never enough
‘Til you can’t spend the stuff
Power pain greed corruption hate
With all of these I’m on the make
On the up makin’it big
Fatter than a suckin’ pig
Let me tell you lies for money …
It’s above my forces.
So everyday won’t feel the same
You held me tight you’re here tonight
I see beauty everywhere
When I dance for yesteryear
You held me tight you’re here tonight
Music caresses as it stabs
You promised I’d never be sad
You held me tight you’re here tonight
Now I feel all my hurts have gone away
Forget the past it never will be
You stole my soul but now I’m free
Forget the past it never will be
I see beauty everywhere
When I dance for yesteryear
You held me tight you’re here tonight
Music caresses as it stabs
You promised I’d never be sad
You held me tight you’re here tonight
Now I feel all my hurts have gone away
Music caresses as it stabs … All that’s left is happiness
How could I’ ve been so blind
I won t get through
I won t get you this time
But all the dreams where you were mine
They’ re sticking to my mind
They won’ t get through
They won’ t get through
You should be in my life
You should be in my life
Before I kill someone
Before I kill someone
What you got is what I need
I want to meet you in the stars
What you got is what I need
I want to meet you in the stars
Then I wake up and feel the stream
Of your breathe behind my neck
I’m just a ship that have been wrecked
I was asleep until it came
Then felt afraid and so ashamed
Within this and out from me
It’s coming up and meant to be
I see angels falling
As my soul is fucking drowning
Feel like I was never born
All this shit makes me feel so old
Everyday before the night
I pray my gods and shut the lights
Then all I do is sleep and dream
Well now you know what comes to me
I am asleep until it comes
Then feel so weak and so alone
Within this and out from me
It’s coming up and meant to be
I see angels falling …