The White Stripes' "I Can Learn"

A few days ago, I listened to the White Stripes' White Blood Cells, and I noticed something about a melody in "I Can Learn."  Near the end of the song, there are the lines "Falling down / Is no longer around."  The "Falling down" is sung to a descending phrase (E B G#), so there's a musical representation of that descent.  The end of "Is no longer around" is sung to an ascending phrase (E G A A# B).  It's as if descending further is no longer possible (because "Falling down / Is no longer around"), so the melody has to rise at that point.

The White Stripes' "You've Got Her in Your Pocket"

I'm currently listening to the White Stripes' Elephant.  I noticed something about the chorus of "You've Got Her in Your Pocket."  It changes a bit with every repetition, but here's the first iteration:

You've got her in your pocket
And there's no way out now
Put it in the safe and lock it
'Cause it's home sweet home

What I noticed is that the third line - while it sounds the same when sung - could be written as "Put it in the safe and lock it" or "Put it in the safe and locket."  Each rendering has its advantages.

"Safe and locket" implies extra security.  The singer/speaker advises "you" to "put it" in two different locations, almost so that an extra back-up copy is available.  Additionally, a locket is kept closer and is more personal than a pocket.

This might be looking at it too closely, but "safe and lock it" could represent a higher level of security via the mosaic rhyme between "pocket" and "lock it."  There's an extra level of complexity, like a lock that's more impervious to being picked.

The White Stripes' "A Boy's Best Friend"

This morning I listened to the White Stripes' De Stijl and noticed some lines in "A Boy's Best Friend":

My only friends speak no words to me
But they look at me, and they don't forget
That a boy's best friend
Is his mother or whatever has become his pet

Part of that ("A boy's best friend / Is his mother") seems to be a reference to a line in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho:  "A boy's best friend is his mother."