The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army

"Seven Nation Army" is the first track on the album Elephant by American alternative rock band The White Stripes. He was released as a single in 2003 and is one of the best-known songs of the band. Seven Nation Army reached # 1 on the Modern Rock Tracks for three weeks and won the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Rock Song. The song is known for its underlying riff, played in most of the song. Although it sounds like a low (an instrument, the group had never known before use), the sound is actually created by Jack White functioning of the semi-acoustic guitar (a 1950-style Kay Hollowbody) through a whammy pedal set up an octave . The riff was composed in a sound control before a show at the corner Hotel in Melbourne, Australia, in accordance with all notes in the booklet accompanying the DVD Blackpool Lights. It draws on the main theme of the Anton Bruckner Fifth Symphony.

I'm gonna fight 'em all
A nation army couldn't 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

Don't 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 aint what you want to hear
But thats what I'll 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 sing no more
And the stains coming from my blood
Tell me go back home