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Spanish Kitchen

by The Revenants

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1.
Cul-de-Sac 03:54
I keep hoping for a sign Just a card or just a letter Won’t you please drop me a line Anything would make me feel better I keep hoping you’ll return But days go by and there’s no word Where have you gone my special one When will you ever come on back I been praying all these years And I’m stuck here in this cul-de-sac I look out on this old world And all I see is pain and woe Thought that you could help us out But your response has been slow I am waiting on the stoop The dream I have has been deferred Where have you gone Where have you gone Can’t you give a little hint Can’t remember your face Were your eyes brown or blue I do recall you had a beard And you knew a little jujitsu People are starting to suspect That you may not exist at all
2.
We can be side by side And still somehow be together You can do your thing and can do mine Like discrete strands on a feather We can be a coupling But we don’t need to be linked We can flow through each other like a river But we can also be distinct Measure of comfort Quantum of solace Measure of comfort Quantum of solace We can tell each other stories We can just stare into space We can be shacked up together Or we can have a separate space I can be living in Boston And you can be out in LA Even though we’re three million miles apart We are never all that far away We may not see each other Maybe we’re invisible Maybe we're ghosts flitting about Both inviolate and divisible But in the end it’s only you And it’s only me as one Together forever and forever A bond that can’t be undone
3.
What do I have here going on What do I have to show I am one big fat mess Through the tulips I tiptoe What am I doing hanging 'round I should be on that train and gone I should be riding on that train to the unknown What am I doing hanging 'round What am I doing hanging 'round What am I looking forward to Will it be more of the same I am counting out the days In this lifelong waiting game What am I doing Where am I going Where do I wanna be And when I get there What do I get At the apogee That old clock on the wall It says it's time for me to leave I better get my shit together Time to ho and heave
4.
What can I say That cannot be said No mere words Can express the dread A black dog wails And wakes up the dead And you put on that dress And you take my hand And together we waltz Through this strange, strange land I have known you Nearly all my days But what do I know Your most peculiar ways Try to hang on But nothing stays I take what you give Don't ask for more If I should dare to cross that line You close the door All of our lives We've been at war
5.
Pearl stood at the door She said, Come on in And you had a meal like none other You felt welcomed You felt like family And Pearl she was your grandmother That's how it all went down Down at the Spanish Kitchen But how it all wound up Could set you a-twitchin' It was over on Beverly And all the stars were there There was Barrymore, Pickford and Hope One day Johnny got sick And they closed for vacation When Pearl she found it hard to cope Well Johnny up and died And Pearl closed down the joint But she left out the silver, the napkins and the chairs What was once a gracious host Was now tending to a ghost Yeah it was spooky up the back stairs
6.
You sit in silence like a buddha Your legs crossed quite comfortably But hidden behind the cool facade I know there's something you won't let me see Don't hide you light Don't hide you light Don't hide you light from me Don't hide you light Don't hide you light Shine it down for all to see Behind your eyes there are stories There are stories I won't ever know Don't matter how down deep I dig You don't want to let it show Shine it down on me Shine it down on me my love Let me see Shine it down on me Shine it down on me my love Set yourself free Set yourself free You keep your doors locked tightly And all your curtains are drawn You ain't ever gonna let me in Just how long can this go on
7.
Got a feeling deep inside me Kind of freaks me out My heart is racing round a million miles an hour The voices in my head they shout Wish that I could let you go You've shot me with your crossbow No matter what I try No matter what I do No matter how I think we're done and through Can't shake it Can't shake it Can't shake it off Got a feeling deep in my guts Makes me feel so frickin' sick No matter what I do to push you out Doesn't do a lick You get me right where I slumber You've always got my number You're in my heart, you're in my dreams You haunt me all my days You with your deep green eyes You with your means and ways Got a lump deep down in my throat I can barely speak I do my best to resist you But then you always make me weak No matter what tactics I use I am bound to lose
8.
Just when I think I'm being clever Just when I think I got it made Just when I think I got it all sewn together It's then I know that I got played I may be smart but you're much smarter You're smack dab at the apogee I may be quick but you are much quicker You're always one step ahead of me Come on and slow it down Come on and slow it down Just when I think I'm really cruising Just when I think at my peak Just when I think about to break the tape You make me feel like an antique Just when I think I am truly hopping Just when I got my ducks in a line Just when I feel like I've thrown off my shackles You bit down like a canine
9.
To Know Me 04:24
It’s so easy to put me in a box And label the box He’s this or he’s that It’s just so easy To simply sum me up And squirrel me away like a pack rat It takes some work to know me And you don’t know me at all It takes some work to know me You don’t wanna see behind the wall You wanna tell me who I am And who I am Fits with what you want me to be It’s more convenient It ticks all your blanks It’s all so very neat and tidy It takes some work to know me And you don’t know me at all It takes some work to know me You don’t wanna see behind the wall And you don’t me, no You don’t know me I tell you that I’m swamped with my feelings And those feelings Seem to swallow me whole It may seem that I’m out of my mind But its just that this old world Has taken its toll
10.
The pain that I feel is as real As real as chromium steel Cuts through me like an obsidian knife Cuts me within an inch of my life And I'll never get over it Never get over it Never get over it It will haunt me forever The hurt that I feel is as raw As sharp as a bandsaw It is mine and mine alone It lives down in my bone No matter what I do I'll never get over you My blood is as red As red as all bloodshed It gushes out from down deep As I drift off to my final sleep
11.
Why did I think I could make it work What in hell was I thinking I let my heart rule my brain What Kool-Aid was I drinking I set off on my journey But now my journey is at an end It was one long misadventure And I can no longer pretend This misadventure What in the world was I doing Why did I ever let it begin If I could go back to that very first moment I would have never let you in Who can explain just who we love It never makes any sense All we know is what we feel All we know is it's intense
12.
Woeful World 06:06
Can’t stop my tears from falling down They gush outta me like a raging gale But who am I to shed a tear For this fucked-up fairytale I am no one and I am nothing And there ain’t nowhere to go You don't see me and you don't know me But know that I overflow with woe For this woeful world The path I’m on is leading me to ruin Ain’t gonna change until I change tack I can talk and scream all about it But all that won’t fix what’s out of whack Can’t do nothing about nothing I am but a single speck of dust The wheels keep turning around and around While the gears slowly, slowly rust

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... and you put on that dress
And you take my hand
And together we waltz
Through this strange, strange land

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released January 1, 2024

Cover "Spanish Kitchen" by Eliot Wilder

Songs written and performed by Eliot Wilder

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