Well, the crickets get it,
And the ants get it,
I bet you the pigs get it,
Yeah, even the plants get it,
Come on now, and get with it,
Yeah, I want you to get with it,

Oh!

Yeah, I just want you to get with it,
´cause everyone that´s under your shoe,
And every bird and bug in the jungle too,
And everything in the ocean blue,
They just happen to know exactly what to do,
So why don´t you?
Yeah, why don´t you?

The flies get it,
And the frogs get it,
And all them big jungle cats get it,
And I bet your little dog gets it,
Yeah, I want you to get with it,
Yeah, come on, and get with it,

Whoo!

Yeah, I want you to get with it,
´Cause everyone that´s under your shoe,
And every bird and bee in the jungle too,
And everything in the ocean blue,
They just happen to know exactly what to do,
So why don´t you? why don´t you?

And all the chickens get it
And them singing canaries get it
Whoo!
Even strawberries get it,
I want you to get with it,
Yeah, I want you to get with it,

Yeah!

I want you to get with it,
´Cause everyone that´s under your shoe,
And every bird and bee in the jungle too,
And everything in the ocean blue,
They just happen to know exactly what to do,
So why don´t you?



Lyrics submitted by WeezDay

Track duration: 04:16


Instinct Blues song meanings
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  • +1
    General Comment:You DON'T GET IT! The majority of human beings would not get it, because they live their life superficially. When you live on the surface level of appearances, you never dive deep. You need to know a little about Jack's background to come even close to getting it.

    Jack, "I can take elements from Buddhism or other religions and see the similarities and differences in those, and learn from those."

    Jack White Biography
    biography.com/people/…
    Flag SelflessBeingon April 19, 2012   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:i love the white stripes, but i absolutely and utterly hate this song. it's boring and repetitive
    Flag Punk23on October 23, 2010   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:You're totally blind if you can't see the sex reference in this song. I found out strawberries produce sexually because they need the strawberry plant and the feeder plant? Two plants to make seeds? "Even the strawberries get it". Pretty simple. No need to be prudes about it people. It's sex. Jack is horny, and a girl (possibly a virgin) wont fix it for him, so he's pissed, and bursts out about her frigidity?
    Flag VortexOfLanguageon January 16, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:I dont think it's just about sex. I think it's also about how most humans are completely out of sync with their true nature. We eat food that wasn't made for us. We don't breathe deeply. We sit in little cubicles and classrooms bathing in artificial sunlight. Meanwhile all the plants and animals do exactly what they need to to survive with no questions asked.
    Flag suckmyjaggonon August 08, 2009   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:Look, generally the White Stripes write nice sweet songs about nice sweet things but I think it's generally accepted by everyone that this one is about sex in whatever innuendos Jack White may use to disguise it.
    'even the strawberries get it'- strawberries reproduce sexually, because two plants are involved.
    There are a couple of other songs with innuendos in by them though, one of which is also on Get Behind Me Satan:
    Forever For Her Is Over For Me contains the lyric 'like the birds and the bees and get to it' after saying 'lets do it' before that. Pretty much obvious it's about sex people. Jack White may be God-like in many ways but biogically he's still a man with needs lol
    Flag VortexOfLanguageon June 07, 2009   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:Pretty much just telling someone to fucking get with it.
    Putting out is a really funny (and fitting) thing for it to be.
    Flag Patrykon October 27, 2008   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:it's pretty obvious it's about sex
    Flag njrocker2255on August 30, 2008   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:funky funky song,
    he sure does want us to get with it lol
    Flag Traces23on May 02, 2008   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:it's either sex or a break up. as in "it's over, get with it"
    Flag WhitenRedon October 25, 2007   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:it really reminds me of hendrix too. i could play this song over and over...

    and im pretty positive that thousands of women would love to help jack out with his problem :)
    Flag carlyesson August 10, 2007   Link

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