Lyric discussion by spl100 

Jack White said in concert that this song is about an old man waiting for death. "I've got plenty of my own friends, they are all above me" "I've been thinking about my doorbell, when you gonna ring it, when you gonna ring it" that means he's waiting for death to take him away so he can join everyone else he knows but are now deceased.

Yeah? Well in French they refer to orgasm as "the little death."

I still say it's sex.

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