In a time when everybody feels entitled/Why can’t I feel entitled too?/Somebody took away my God given right/I guess God must have gave it to you/Yeah, I guess God must have slipped it to you/Stop what you’re doing and get back in line/I hear this from people all the time/If we can’t be happy then you can’t be too/I’m tired of being told what to do/Yeah, I’m sick of being told what to do
from Entitlement lyrics by Jack White
This fairly standard 6/8 country ballad gets right under the skin – namely because I can imagine few people (not to mention rock musicians) more “entitled” than White. Case in point: The Raconteurs. As such, even if he’s supposedly projecting onto a third-person narrator, the plot is bothersome.
