Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground (3:01)

Cover of White Blood Cells

From White Blood Cells and 40 other releases

“Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground” is a single by The White Stripes from their album White Blood Cells. It was released in August 2002. The song features a very raw guitar tone produced by an Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi.

In 2006, a cover of the song appeared on Chris Thile’s album How To Grow A Woman From The Ground. Jack White originally planned for this song to be much softer and done with an acoustic guitar.

The video for this song, directed by Michel Gondry, depicts Jack White coming back to his and Meg White’s trashed house and surveying the destruction. While he goes from room to room, video of the party that led to the destruction, and of his and Meg’s relationship before he left, is projected and occasionally super-imposed over the scene.

Tags

Everyone’s tags

More tags
More about this track…

Albums featuring this track (41)

Similar Tracks

  Track   Duration Listeners
  The White Stripes - Hotel Yorba 2:09 349,731
  The White Stripes - Expecting 2:03 243,388
  Jack White - Sixteen Saltines 2:37 189,986
  The Raconteurs - Top Yourself 4:24 173,520
Jack White - Freedom at 21 2:51 167,650
  The Raconteurs - Salute Your Solution 2:59 271,462

Listening Trend

359,668listeners all time
1,714,152scrobbles all time
Recent listeners trend:

Explore more

Listen to, buy or share

Buy

Send Ringtones to Cell

Dead leaves and the dirty ground
when I know you're not around
shiny tops and soda pops
when I hear your lips make a sound

MetroLyrics Full lyrics at MetroLyrics

Shoutbox

Leave a comment. Log in to Last.fm or sign up.

Listening Now

Top Listeners