Rubber Factory

The Black Keys Rubber Factory Lyrics
1.Keep Me

Lyricist:Daniel Auerbach, Patrick Carney

Keep me clean
Keep me warm
Keep my soul away from harm

Keep the night
Keep the day
Keep the in-between away

Hold that second
Hold the time
Hold that picture in your mind

Hold the smoke
Hold the fire
Hold all that now you desire

Show me trust
Show me love
Show me heaven up above

Show your soul
Show your mind
Show it to me all the time


2.Act Nice and Gentle

Lyricist:Ray Davies

Where'd you get those fancy clothes?
Where'd you get those, goodness knows?
Just show some civility
Act nice, act nice and gentle to me

I don't need no luxuries
As long as you are understandin'
I'm not difficult to please
Act nice and gentle to me

I'm the kind of guy
Who likes to take you as I find you
So throw away those false eyelashes
Act nice, act nice to me

Hold my hand, understand, act nice
Act nice, act nice and gentle to me
Hold my hand, now understand, gentle to me
Act nice, act nice and gentle to me


3.When The Lights Go Out

Lyricist:Daniel Auerbach, Patrick Carney

Don't it hurt so bad
Standin' in the sun
Bottom of your heart
You don't love no one

You can be, oh, so mean
I just can't see, no in-between
You know what the sun's all about
When the lights go out

What a way to live
Back of your class
End of the line
You're always last

You can be, oh, so mean
I just can't see no in-between
You know what the sun's all about
When the lights go out

See the moon
See the stars
From your lonely seat
In your lonely cars

You can be, oh, so mean
I just can't see, no in-between
You know what the sun's all about
When the lights go out

Lights go out
Lights go out
Lights go out


4.Grown So Ugly

Lyricist:Robert Pete Williams

I got up this morning
Put on my shoes
Tied my shoes
Went to the mirror

But I combed my hair
I made a move
Know what to do
Tried to break and run

Baby, this ain't me, baby, this ain't me
Grown so ugly, grown so ugly
Don't even know myself
Don't even know myself

Left Angola, 1964
Walking down the street
Knocking for my baby, now
My baby come out and ask me who I am

I say, honey
Honey, don't you know your man?
She said my man been gone since 1942
I tell you, Mr. Ugly, he didn't look like you


5.Girl Is On My Mind

Lyricist:Daniel Auerbach, Patrick Carney

Girl is on my mind
Girl is on my mind
Try to ignore, try to unwind
She is on my mind

Eyes are in my eyes
Eyes are in my eyes
Where I've been, how time flies
She is in my eyes

See her standing there
See her standing there
She's gentle now, and takes great care
See her standing there

Hold me close to you
Hold me close to you
Not one thing, that I would not do
If you hold me close to you

Girl is on my mind
She is on my mind
Try to ignore, try to unwind
She is on my mind


6.10 A.M. Automatic

Lyricist:Daniel Auerbach, Patrick Carney

What about the night makes you change
Oh from sweet to deranged
What about my voice tells you
Who's been wrong to you, yeah

You've got pains like an addict
I'm leaving you
You've got pains like an addict
10 A.M. automatic

Come on, yeah

I see darkness cover us
And your car kicks up dust
What about my ways makes you doubt
All these words from my mouth, here we go

You've got pains like an addict
I'm leaving you
You've got pains like an addict
10 A.M. automatic, yeah


7.The Lengths

Lyricist:Daniel Auerbach, Patrick Carney

Tell me where you're goin or
What is going wrong
I felt you leavin' before
You'd even gone

And hold me now
Or never ever hold me again
No more talk
Can take me from this pain I'm in
Pain I'm in

See the moonlight shinin'
On your window pane
See it leave you
As faithful as it came

Please yourself so you
Don't have to be afraid
Make amends
Or carry on another way
Another way

Tell me what you were thinkin'
To treat somebody so
The care he took
The lengths to which he'd go

Coals are hot to walk across
Without your shoes
But in the end
Know that you got nothin' to lose
Nothin' to lose


8.Aeroplane Blues

Lyricist:Daniel Auerbach, Patrick Carney

I'm on an airplane
Close to sea
Going nowhere
I wanna be

Distant lands
Don't know who I am

Eyes are heavy
Mind is shook
Can't feel
Drugs I took

Distant lands
Don't know who I am

Take your seat
Don't be shy
You got to remember
You're gonna die

Distant lands
Don't know who I am
Don't know who I am
Don't know who I am


9.All Hands Against His Own

Lyricist:Daniel Auerbach, Patrick Carney

He found all hands against his own
Found all eyes were looking down
And the sun had left and gone
All his friends could not be found

Don't talk about, don't think about love
She's not the one you're dreaming of
Don't talk about it, can't live without it

You say you're alone
He found all hands against his own

He found the sky, it turned to gray
And the clouds start rolling in
Got no use for what they say
Got no use for where they've been

Don't talk about, don't think about love
She's not the one you're dreaming of
Don't think about it, can't live without it

You say you're alone
He found all hands against his own
You say you're alone
He found all hands against his own

You say you're alone
He found all hands against his own
You say you're alone
He found all hands against his own

He found all hands against his own
And no light from up above
Just a dark and lonely road
He found all hands against his own


10.The Desperate Man

Lyricist:Daniel Auerbach, Patrick Carney

See her walkin' with a fella
Two of them so nice and mellow
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey

My heart is broken, is open wide
Feel so down, deep inside
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey

Summer slipped by and still it's fall
Wonder what she done me for
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey

I'm too far down the deepest ditch
Too far gone to ever switch
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey

Drivin' on now without a care
Hope to catch you standin' there
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey

Don't forsake a desperate man
Hope you know that's who I am
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey

One, two, three, four
Five, six, seven, eight


11.Just Couldn't Tie Me Down

Lyricist:Daniel Auerbach, Patrick Carney

Will you let me know how you've changed?
I can't tell in any way

Little village is not a town
Just couldn't tie me down

She sent a message to my mind
Without reason, without rhyme

Happiness will come around
Just couldn't tie me down

Feel the wind hit your skin
I see the shape, put me in

Saw you talking, heard the sounds
Oh, just couldn't tie me down, yeah


12.Stack Shot Billy

Lyricist:Daniel Auerbach, Patrick Carney

Stack shot Billy in the back of the head
Stack made sure Billy Lyons was dead
.45 pistol down in Stack's right hand
Sent him away to the Promised Land

Stack shot Billy
.45
Stack shot Billy
Billy laid down and died

Stack Lee had himself an evil brain
Loved his gun and his sweet cocaine
But Stack got quiet when the shadows fell
Knew soon enough that he'd burn in hell

Stack shot Billy
.45
Stack shot Billy
Billy laid down and died

Stack shot Billy in the back of the head
Stack made sure Billy Lyons was dead
.45 pistol down in Stack's right hand
Sent him away to the Promised Land

Stack shot Billy
.45
Stack shot Billy
Billy laid down and died


13.Till I Get My Way

Lyricist:Daniel Auerbach, Patrick Carney

Love me, don't leave me
Make me feel you need me
Kill me, thrill me
Don't you know that I will be

Callin' on you everyday
Till I get my way

Darling, I wonder
How you pulled me under
Kill me, thrill me
Don't you know that I will be

Callin' on you everyday
Till I get my way
Till I get my way

Darling, remember
The cold, cold nights in December
Kill me, thrill me
Don't you know that I will be

Callin' on you everyday
Till I get my way
Till I get my way
Till I get my way
Till I get my way


14.Summertime Blues

I'm-a gonna raise a fuss,
I'm-a gonna raise a holler,
'Bout a-workin' all summer just-a tryin'a earn a dollar,

Told my congressman and he said 'Well,
I'd like to help ya son,
But you're too young to vote,'
Sometimes I wonder,
What I'm-a gonna do,
For there ain't no cure for the summertime blues,
One two three four,

I'm-a gonna raise a fuss,
I'm-a gonna raise a holler,
'Bout a-workin' all summer just-a tryin'a earn a dollar,

Now I told my congressman and he said 'Well,
I'd like to help ya son,
But (something)'
Sometimes I wonder,
What I'm-a gonna do,
(something).