The Big Three Killed My Baby (Live at the Gold Dollar, February 6, 1999)

[Chorus]

The Big Three killed my baby

Nobody's coming home again

The Big Three killed my baby

No money in my hand again, yeah

[Verse 1]

Well, thirty thousand wheels are rolling

And my stick-shift hands are swollen

Thirty thousand wheels are spinning

And oil company faces are grinning

Now my hands are turning red

And I found out my baby is dead

[Chorus]

The Big Three killed my baby

No money in my hand again

The Big Three killed my baby

Nobody's coming home again

[Verse 2]

Why don't you take the day off and try to repair?

A billion others don't seem to care

Good ideas stuck in the mud

The motor's running on Tucker's blood

Don't let 'em tell you the future's electric

'Cause gasoline's not measured in metric

Thirty thousand wheels are spinning

And oil company faces are grinning

Now my hands are turning red

And I found out my baby is dead

[Chorus]

The Big Three killed my baby

No money in my hand again

Big Three killed my baby

Nobody's coming home again, yeah

[Verse 3]

Well, I've said it now, nothing's changed

People still burning for pocket change

'Cause creative minds are lazy

And the Big Three killed your baby

[Outro]

And my baby's my common sense

So don't feed me planned obsolescence

Yeah, my baby's my common sense

So don't feed me planned obsolescence, yeah

I'm about to have another blowout

I'm about to have another blowout

[Spoken Word: Jack White]

Thank you very much, that's one of my finger-pointing songs

I want to— the other day, I was walking in a snowstorm, uh

My foot was a couple feet deep as snow, and I fell down

There was a guy walking behind me, and I fell down in the snow

And the guy said, "Oh, let me help you up, I'm sorry"

And, uh, he helped me up, and I said, "Thanks"

(What guy?) It's just a guy, I don't know

And he said, uh, "Yeah, that'll be three dollars"

But he said, uh, I shouldn't take it

Because I'm not allowed to help anybody since I got parole

But that's not for your ears, I guess