In the Cold, Cold Night, by the White Stripes

Ladislav Mednyánszky - Winter. Winter Night
Ladislav Mednyánszky – Winter. Winter Night – from Art Renewal Center

Between 1997 and 2011, Meg White (Megan Martha White) and her husband Jack White (born John Anthony Gillis) formed the rock duo the White Stripes. Meg White performed drums, percussion, and vocals, while Jack White wrote songs and performed vocals, guitar, piano, and bass.

In April 2003 they released their fourth studio album Elephant. For the first time in the duo’s career, Meg performed leading vocals in the fifth track “In The Cold, Cold Night.” In this song, she is a young girl asking a man to come to her, he makes her feel a full grown woman, and she wants to love him, whatever other people say. In the cold night she needs him as fuel for her fire, he will run to her, it is warm inside.

Here is the “official visualizer” video of the song from YouTube:

Here are the lyrics from Genius:

In the Cold, Cold Night
words & music by Jack White

I saw you standing in the corner
On the edge of a burning light
I saw you standing in the corner

Come to me again in the cold, cold night
In the cold, cold night

You make me feel a little older
Like a full grown woman might
But when you’re gone I grow colder

Come to me again in the cold, cold night
In the cold, cold night

I hear you walking by my front door
I hear the creaking of the kitchen floor
I don’t care what other people say
I’m going to love you, anyway

Come to me again in the cold, cold night
In the cold, cold night

I can’t stand it any longer
I need the fuel to make my fire bright
So don’t fight it any longer

Come to me again in the cold, cold night
In the cold, cold night

And I know that you feel it too
When my skin turns into glue
You will know that it’s warm inside
And you’ll come run to me
In the cold, cold night
In the cold, cold night
In the cold, cold night
In the cold, cold night

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