Whereas Jack drops "We Are Going to Be Friends" right in the middle of a collection of otherwise clearly adult songs, without that obvious extreme self-consciousness crowding him.
LM: I dunno, I rather see this as the pinnacle of a very straightforward album. White Blood Cells is the "love" album. Every song has something to do with love and relationships, and as I said, this is the look at love before it gets complicated. But it goes beyond that — this song is as pure as a hymn on Sunday morning, and it's the gleeful top-o-the-world moment on an emotional roller coaster. It's all part of the same cycle — this is just the upswing.
But I don't want to argue. I want to go roll around in the grass and sketch pictures in the dust with a stick. Or maybe climb a tree and skin my knee. And then maybe we can strum on a guitar and sing folk songs!
GA: Okay, let's not start like some Joan Baez pinko folk singer, or I'ma have to start rounding up damned hippies, and putting them to the lash. Tracy Chapman, are you listening?
LM: Now Al, you've been so good up till now. Let's keep it on the love track. How about a nice game of hopscotch?
GA: You mean play a game representing how Jack White's guitar army will leap across the country, seizing territory for The People?
LM: Yes, exactly. I've got some colored chalk. We can draw a map on the sidewalk with all the countries, and we can hopscotch across it.
GA: Wheeeee!
Come hand in hand with us, back to the beginning of WHITE STRIPES NATION!
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