Next Girl

Here is some background information on "Next Girl" from Songfacts.com. Patrick Carney was in a really bad place, in the tail end of a crumbling relationship. The story goes that Dan Auerbach wrote this tune for Carney to acknowledge the fact that he knew what his partner was going through with the divorce. "Oh I wrote that song before," Auerbach told Mojo magazine: "It wasn't about him. I wrote that song a year and a half before we recorded Brothers, around the time I was working on the solo record stuff. It just happened to be the first song we recorded for Brothers."

[Verse 1] Well the look on the cake it ain't It ain't always the taste My ex-girl she had such a Such a beautiful face I wanted love But not for myself But for the girl so she could So she could love herself [Chorus] Oh my next girl Will be nothing like my ex-girl I made mistakes back then I will never do it again Oh my next girl She will be nothing like my ex-girl It was a painful dance Now I got a second chance [Verse 2] Oh her beautiful face and her And her wicked ways And I am paying for her beautiful face every day All that work over Over so much time if I If I think too hard I might lose my mind [Chorus] Oh my next girl Will be nothing like my ex-girl I made mistakes back then I will never do it again With my next girl She will be nothing like my ex-girl That was a painful dance And I got a second chance [Outro] Oh my next girl Yeah My next girl