Everlasting
Light
Written by The Black Keys
Recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio
Engineered by Mark Neill
Produced by The Black Keys and Mark Neill
Backing Vocals by Nicole Wray
Let me be your everlasting light
The sun when there is none
I’m a shepherd for you
And I’ll guide you through
Let me be your evelasting light
Let me be your everlasting light
I’ll hold and never scold
In me you can confide
When no one’s by your side
Let me be your everlasting light
Oh darling, can’t you see
I’m shining just for you
Loneliness is over
Dark days are through
Let me be your everlasting light
A train going away from pain
Love is the coal
That makes this train roll
Let me be your everlasting light
Howlin’ For You
Written by The Black Keys
Recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio
Engineered by Mark Neill
Produced by The Black Keys and Mark Neill
Backing Vocals by Nicole Wray
I must admit
I can’t explain
All these thoughts racing
Through my brain
It’s true
Baby I’m howlin’ for you
There’s something wrong
With this plot
The actors here
Have not got
A clue
Baby I’m howlin’ for you
Mockingbird
Can’t you see
The little girl’s
Got a hold on me
Like glue
Baby I’m howlin’ for you
Throw the ball
To the stick
Swing and miss
In the catcher’s mitt
Strike two
Baby I’m howlin’ for you
Next Girl
Written by The Black Keys
Recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio
Engineered by Mark Neill
Produced by The Black Keys and Mark Neill
Backing Vocals by Nicole Wray
The look of the cake
It ain’t always the taste
My ex girl she had
Such a beautiful face
I wanted love
But not for myself
But for the girl
So she could love herself
My next girl
Will be nothing like my ex girl
I made mistakes back then
I’ll never do it again
With my next girl
She’ll be nothing like my ex girl
That was a painful dance
Now I got a second chance
A beautiful face
And a wicked way
And I’m paying for her
Beautiful face every day
All that work
Over so much time
If I think too hard
I might lose my mind
She’s Long Gone
Written by The Black Keys
Recorded at Easy Eye Sound System
Engineered by Dan Auerbach
Produced by The Black Keys
She was made to blow you away
She don’t care what any man say
You can watch her strut
But keep your mouth shut
Or it’s ruination day
She’s long, long gone
She’s long gone like Moses through the corn
Her eyes are rubies and pearls
And she’s not made like those other girls
Her lashes flap and they smack men back
Like springs they bounce off of her curls
Black Mud
Written by The Black Keys
Recorded at Easy Eye Sound System
Engineered by Dan Auerbach
Produced by The Black Keys
Tighten Up
Written by The Black Keys
Recorded at The Bunker, Brooklyn, New York
Engineered by Kennie Takahashi
Produced by Danger Mouse
I wanted love, I needed love
Most of all, most of all
Someone said true love was dead
And I’m bound to fall, bound to fall
For you
But what can I do?
Take my badge but my heart remains
Lovin’ you, baby child
Tighten up on your reigns
You’re runnin’ wild, runnin’ wild
It’s true
Sick for days in so many ways
I’m achin’ now, I’m achin’ now
It’s times like these I need relief
Please show me how, show me how
To get right
When I was young and moving fast
Nothing slowed me down, slowed me down
Now I let the others pass
I’ve come around, come around
Living just to keep going
Going just to stay sane
All the while never knowing
It’s such a shame
I don’t need to get steady
I know just how I feel
I’m telling you to get ready
My dear
The Only One
Written by The Black Keys
Recorded at Easy Eye Sound System
Engineered by Dan Auerbach
Produced by The Black Keys
Can’t explain
Nor can I contain
Control
You have on my soul
It’s all I do
Is baby dream of you
I’m falling down
When you’re around
You’re the only one
You’re the only one
I’m so wrapped up in a daze
Hoping this is just a faze
But when all is said and done
I know you are still the one
You’re the only one
You’re the only one
Cupid’s bow it stung
Now you’re the only one
Mystery
Is what this is to me
I’m giving up
I’m having no luck
Like a ghost
The one that I love most
She disappears
When I get near
 Too Afraid To Ten Cent Pistol Sinister Kid
Love You Written by The Black Keys
Recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio
Engineered by Mark Neill
Written by The Black Keys
Recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio
Engineered by Mark Neill
Written by The Black Keys Produced by The Black Keys and Mark Neill Produced by The Black Keys and Mark Neill
Recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio
Engineered by Mark Neill
Produced by The Black Keys and Mark Neill Well, he ran around The crooks are out
Late at night And the streets are gray
My gears they grind Holding hands You know I wouldn’t have it
More each day And making light Any other way
And I feel like Of everything
They’re gonna grind away That came before Your mother’s words
But there she was They’re ringing still
And the city blocks Behind the door But your mother don’t
They drive me wild Pay our bills
They’re never ending She hit them with her ten cent pistol
Mile after mile Because they ruined her name A sinister kid is a kid who
Well, she hit them with her ten cent pistol Runs to meet his Maker
I just don’t know what to do And they’ve never been the same A drop dead sprint from the day he’s born
I’m too afraid to love you Straight into his Maker’s arms
There’s nothing worse And that’s me, that’s me
It’s heaven on earth In this world The boy with the broken halo
In her embrace Than payback from a That’s me, that’s me
Her gentle touch Jealous girl The devil won’t let me be
And her smiling face The laws of man
Don’t apply I got a tortured mind
I’m just one wishing When blood gets in And my blade is sharp
That I was a pair A woman’s eye A bad combination
With someone In the dark
Oh somewhere Stars did fall
Thunder rolled If I kill a man
All those sleepless nights Bugs crawled back In the first degree
And all those wasted days In their holes Baby would you
I wish loneliness would leave me The couple screamed Flee with me
But I think he’s here to stay But far too late
What more can I do Cause a jealous heart
I’m wringing myself dry
And I can’t afford to lose Did retaliate
One more teardrop from my eye

The Go Getter Im Not The One Unknown

Written by The Black Keys
Recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio
Engineered by Mark Neill
Written by The Black Keys
Recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio
Engineered by Mark Neill
Brother
Produced by The Black Keys and Mark Neill Produced by The Black Keys and Mark Neill Written by The Black Keys
Recorded at Easy Eye Sound System
Engineered by Dan Auerbach
Hi-fi bone box I've been tried Produced by The Black Keys
Pretty girl in bobby sox And I’ve been tested
After party in a hotel room I was born tired Though I never met you
Pretty soon there will be no moon And I never got rested And we spoke not a word
Stumble home in the pouring rain Harder than I’ll never forget you
Let the water ease my worried brain Marble stone Through stories that I’ve heard
Some days I just can’t get along I’m better off For you unknown brother
I need a head to lean my shoulders on Better off left alone My baby’s mother is pained
Cause your soul is in heaven
Palm trees Cause I’m not the one But your memory remains
The flat broke disease No I’m not the one
And LA has got me You wanted it all Unknown, unknown brother
On my knees But I’ll give you none I’ll meet you someday
I am Cause, I’m not the one Unknown, unknown brother
The bluest of blues We’ll walk through fields where children
Every day Well, like a toy play
A different way to lose To a kid
The Go Getter I said jump Your eyes shined bright
And mama you did When you were a kid
I got a table at the Rainbow Room You know, your daddy knows Your sisters loved you
I told my wife I’d be home soon And your mama knows And all that you did
Big ships are approaching the docks That’s wrong Big brother, big brother
I got my hi-fi bone box So now it’s time Don’t worry a bit
Mashed potatoes in cellophane For me to move on Your flame has not faded
I see my life going down the drain Since the day it was lit
Hold me baby and don’t let go You think
Pretty girls help to soften the blow That I’m normal Your life
But all these years Was joy
I’m just trying to warn you Your mama’s
You’d do good Only boy
To move on And when the skies
No it won’t Are blue
Hurt me none Big brother
They’re blue for you

We’ll smile like pictures

Of you as a boy
Long before you retired
To heavenly joy
 Never Gonna All songs performed by The Black Keys
All songs Published by McMoore McLeest Publishing (BMI), Administered by Wixen Music,
Give You Up Except “Never Gonna Give You Up” Published By Sony/ATV Melody
Written by Jerry Butler, Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff
Recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio
Mixed by Tchad Blake
Engineered by Mark Neill Mastering by Brian Lucey at Magic Garden Mastering
Produced by The Black Keys and Mark Neill Photography by John Peets
Art Direction & Artwork by Michael Carney

Thank You to our families and friends, Tchad Blake, Mark Neill, Brian Lucey, Michael Carney,

These Days John Peets, Ryan Harrington, everyone at Q Prime, Mary Moyer, Elizabeth Gregory, Dave
Kaplan, Mike Greek, David Bither, everyone at Nonesuch, Angela Lagerson, Jamie Cheek,
everyone at FBMM, Jason Rackham, BT, Noel Webster, Brian Burton, Kennie Takahashi, George
Written by The Black Keys
Recorded Soil of the South Studios in San Diego Morris, Nicole Wray, Stephanie and Sadie Auerbach, Emily Ward, Jason Tarulli, Vern
Engineered by Mark Neill
Produced by The Black Keys and Mark Niell Christian, Mike Grant, Ted Mallison, Dan Johnson, Jamie Stillman, Jill Schumann, Muscle
Shoals, the Haynes Family, Akron, and Mellotrons.
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That’s how we’re made

The little house on Ellis Drive

Is where I felt most alive
The oak tree covered that old Ford
I miss it Lord, I miss it Lord

These blood red eyes

Don’t see so good
But what’s worse is if they could
Would I change my ways?
Wasted times and broken dreams
Violent colors so obscene
It’s all I see these days
These days

Watch what you say

The devil is listenin’
He’s got ears that you
Wouldn’t believe
And brother once you go to him
It’s your soul you can never retrieve