This song just kicks, and is well worth a read just as a perfect set of ideas. Not a single word is wasted, all the intensity is in the consonants, and the visual imagery is insane in its power. But even if all the blood and queens isn't to your taste, you can't help but be impressed by the menace of "They're gonna rip it off, Taking their time right behind my back".

The White Stripes come from an understanding of the importance of lyrics that drive a song forward. Musically, they lean back in time, sonically they use the timing of perfect dance music. The immediacy of this track lyrically is remarkable.

- LC

Seven Nation Army

Im gonna fight em off
A seven nation army couldnt 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

Dont 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 Ill 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