Songfacts®:

• Rome is an album written by the American music producer Brian "Danger Mouse" Burton and the Italian composer Daniele Luppi. It features the singing on three tracks of Jack White and this song contains a collection of the American musician's different vocals. He told UK newspaper The Sun: "It impressed me. I recorded three different vocals at different ranges for that - bass, alto, tenor - and let Brian pick out which he liked the best. Then he used them all and mixed them - like a three prong voice."
• White had an unconventional approach to recording his vocal contributions. He told The Sun: "I'd never written vocals for someone else's music before and at first I didn't know what to do: Sit down and play the piano like I'd usually do or work in a new way. In the end I drove around in the car listening to it and singing whatever came to mind into a handheld recorder. I didn't know what character Brian was thinking of and he hadn't given any topics to write about. I had to become an antenna at that point but I just did what the music told me."