The Black Keys - Little Black Submarines Lyrics

The Black Keys Lyrics

"Little Black Submarines"

Little black submarines
Operator please
Put me back on the line
Told my girl I'd be back
Operator please
This is wreckin' my mind

Oh can it be
The voices calling me
They get lost
And out of time
I should've seen it glow
But everybody knows
That a broken heart is blind
That a broken heart is blind

Pick you up, let you down
When I wanna go
To a place I can hide
You know me, I had plans
But they just disappeared
To the back of my mind

Oh can it be
The voices calling me
They get lost
And out of time
I should've seen it glow
But everybody knows
That a broken heart is blind
That a broken heart is blind

Treasure maps, fallen trees
Operator please
Call me back when it's time
Stolen friends and disease
Operator please
Patch me back to my mind

Oh can it be
The voices calling me
They get lost
And out of time
I should've seen it glow
But everybody knows
That a broken heart is blind
That a broken heart is blind
That a broken heart is blind

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Thanks to John Benteu, Charles Lafon for correcting these lyrics.

Writer(s): Daniel Auerbach, Patrick Carney, Brian Burton

The album's fourth single released on the 8th of October 2012.

The first half of this song is acoustic, the second half is hard rock.

The music video for this song shows the Black Keys performing at Nashville's Springwater Supper Club bar. Dan Auerbach told Rolling Stone about the clip, "Luckily we had live footage so we turned it into a live video. We just sort of said 'You know, it was fun kind of performing here at a small club with the fans. Why don't we just have it be that?"

Entertainment Weekly said about this track, "They don't make vintage folk-rock heavy metal like they used to—if they ever used to. And that's a very good thing."

Rolling Stone wrote that one could "easily hear Led Zeppelin in 'Little Black Submarines', an acoustic blues that gets run-over halfway through by electric riffs and brutish drums, Carney doing a hilariously great junkyard John Bonham."

The song reached number two on the Alternative Songs chart in the US and the Alternative Rock and Active Rock charts in Canada. It was certified "Gold" in the USA.

album: "El Camino" (2011)

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