The White Stripes – Icky Thump

Icky thump
Who’da thunk?
Sittin’ drunk on a wagon to Mexico.

Ah well,
What a chump
Well my head got a bump
When I hit it on the radio.

Redhead señorita
Looking dead
Came and said
“need a bed?”
En Español.

I said
“gimme a drink a water,
I’m gonna ‘sing around the collar’
And I don’t need a microphone.”

Icky thump
with a lump in my throat
Grabbed my coat
And I was freaking
I was ready to go!

And I swear
Besides the hair
She had one white eye,
One blank stare
Lookin’ up
Lyin’ there.

On the stand
near her hand
Was a candy cane
Black rum, sugar cane,
Dry ice (and) something strange.

La la, la la la la la la la la la laaa laaa laaa

White Americans, what?
Nothing better to do?
Why don’t you kick yourself out?
You’re an immigrant too?

Who’s usin’ who?
What should we do?
Well you can’t be a pimp
And a prostitute too

Icky thump, handcuffed to a bunk
Robbed blind
Looked around
And there was nobody else

Left alone
I hit myself with a stone
Went home
And learned how to clean up after myself

Prevod pesme

O bože!

O bože
Ko bi pomislio?
Sedim pijan u vagonu za Meksiko.

Pa dobro,
Kakav kreten
Pa, moja glava dobila je čvorugu
Kad sam je udario o radio

Crvenokosa senjorita
mrtvačkog izgleda
došla je i rekla
“treba krevet?”
na španskom.

Rekao sam
“daj mi neko piće, vode,
pevaću dok se ne oznojim
i ne treba mi mikrofon.”

O bože
sa knedlom u grlu
zgrabio sam svoj kaput
i šizeo sam
bilo mi je vreme da krenem!

I kunem se
osim te kose
imala je jedno belo oko,
Jedno prazno oko
gore je gledalo
samo tamo ležalo.

Na stočiću
blizu njene ruke
stajala je lizalica
crni rum, šećerna trska,
suvi led i nešto čudno.

La la, la la la la la la la la la laaa laaa laaa

Beli Ameri, šta?
Nemaš pametnijeg posla?
Zašto ne bi pronašao vrata?
I ti si imigrant?

Ko koga iskorištava?
Šta da radimo?
Pa, ne možeš biti i makro
i prostitutka

O bože, vezan lisicama za krevet
opelješen
pogledao sam oko sebe
i nije bilo nikoga više

Ostavljen sam
udarih se kamenom
Otišao sam kući
i naučio kako da počistim za sobom

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