THE WHITE STRIPES’ ICKY THUMP (2007) ALBUM PROMPTS
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you’re holding tight to it, the answer.
went home and learned how to clean up after myself.
i don’t need a microphone.
i’m getting hard on myself.
she had one white eye, one blank stare.
i realize that you’ve realized.
one of these days i’m bound to choke.
it hit me that i do all the little things that you do.
i got another job at the liquor store.
hey, if you ain’t gonna use it, just give it to us.
i bet we could build a home.
it didn’t take much longer.
look closer and you can see how i’ve been running it.
i know you’re gonna ask it.
i’m a martyr for my love for you.
your mother put her money into platinum and now you never have to pay attention.
didn’t care what harm was done, just as long as they won the prize.
you can’t switch them around for your own satisfaction.
there was a time when all i wanted was my ice cream colder and a little cream soda.
the hunter became the prey.
anybody got a christmas tree?
you just keep on repeating all those empty “i love you’s”.
it probably don’t make much sense to you.
in that graveyard, i’m gonna have the shiniest pair of shoes.
i’m bringing back ghosts that are no longer there.
you probably won’t get what i’m going to do.
i was freaking, i was ready to go.
it might sound a little strange for me to say to you, but i’m proud to be you.
look at all this, you don’t want it?
come on and give it to me.
it’s a shame, what a lame way to live.
sooner or later, i’ll break your smile.
i’m slowly turning into you.
i’m gonna say these words to you.
maybe these ruby shoes are a little cumbersome for you.
my dumb-luck fake competence was getting weak.
you’ll probably call me a fool.
i feel like i can’t go through with this.
this place is like a mansion.
yeah, broke as i’ll ever be.
making sense of it all takes a whole lotta concentration.
i guess you have to have a problem if you want to invent a contraption.
i’m doing exactly what a coward would do.
if you don’t want it, we’ll take it.
you say you deserve better.
in their mind there can be no sin.
you’re more beautiful, compelling and stronger.
their roles were reversed from that day.
i love all the little things.
i saw some stuff in your yard, are you going to give it to us?
you built a house of cards and got shocked when you saw them fall.
we can do something with them.
i’m breaking my teeth off.
i’m wondering which one of them i should choose.
every time, you get defensive.
well you can’t blame a baby for her pregnant ma.
for a sec’ i thought i sounded sweet.
put your head on my shoulder.
well the hills are pretty and rolling.
i hit myself with a stone.
we’ll be taking whatever you got.
if you’re headed to the grave, you don’t blame the hearse.
i hate to sound cold, but you don’t know what love is.
if you’re testing god, lying to his face, you’re gonna catch hell.
if you don’t want to give it to us, we keep walking by.
you’re not hopeless or helpless.
if you go looking for hot water, don’t act shocked when you get burned a little bit.
i suspect you’ve got a respectable side.
i dig your little laugh and i’m loving your quick wit.
you left me brokenhearted.
i’m sending in, the money’s in the mail.
i know the right thing for me to do is to leave you alone.
i ain’t saying i’m innocent.
next time they stab you, don’t fight back.
you can’t take the effect and make it the cause.
i’m slowly turning into you.
there’s nothing left for me to tell you.
i just swallow it and hold on to it and use it to scare the hell out of you.
why don’t you kick yourself out?
my head got a bump when i hit it on the radio.
this battle is in the air.
well sooner or later the ground’s gonna be holding all of my ashes too.
i even love it when you’re faking it.
no, she’s my only daughter.
it’s for someone else’s benefit.
you’re just looking for a fight.
we got married on the tennessee border.
they were just another conquest.
i got a dollar bill in the cockpit.
make some money out of them at least…
each beautiful thing i come across tells me to stop moving and shake this riddle off.
just play the victim instead of playing the fool.
they were out to make a conquest.
you burnt my house down, then got mad at my reaction.
they’re annoying as hell, in fact.
you say i’m lying and i never really tell you the truth.
i’m walking away from you.
it’s plain to see that he’s not one of us.
they just end up doing the same thing.
i’m wondering just how i can do that.
i ain’t the reason that you gave me no reason to return your call.
your face is getting older.
every highway that i go down seems to be longer than the last one that i knew about.
something else came to mind.
i ain’t supposed to kiss.
i can still see your face.
look, i see something over there.
one sound can hold back a thousand hands.
my mind is filled with rubber tires and forest fires.
we’ll make something out of them.
have you got something shiny for me?
i hope you appreciate what i do.
you keep blaming me for what you did.
you don’t know what love is.
i’m beginning to like you.
it made everything clearer.
the hunted became the huntress.
an alley full of rocks was all i had to care about.
well, i can’t keep from laughing.
they don’t really care because they pay them.