Spices - The Hold Steady

She sent a picture of a plethora of poker chips

Spread out on the bed between a mouth and a leg

She said «there's pretty many people already but still I wish you were here»

Hadn’t really seen her since the previous winter

She’d been a drop dead number since later last December

But here she is rising again Happy Easter

You wanna go get some beers?

And all the bartnders were strangling thir shakers

It was springtime in the sweet part of the city

It’s nice to hit the taverns with familiar companions

I kind of like it when she’s laughing at me

So now were back in touch and were up to old tricks

And she’s acting on a tip, we’re trying to find the right play

She said, «meet me on the corner of Central Smoke and Gift

I’ll be just before daybreak»

But she wants to make it clear

That she’s done with all that other stuff

Sick of all the drama club

Tired of all the talking drugs

She slept over on a Saturday night

And in the morning we watched the parade

All the majorettes had the sun in their eyes

And all the old cars looked fatigued

The cops in the kilts had me nervous as hell

But if felt pretty cool when she kissed me

We’re at the table and she’s yelling out her order

Vanilla vodka in a diet Dr. Pepper

Something wrapped in black wax paper

We’re gonna see where this goes

She’s pouring liquor into spun sugar

Something extra in a salt shaker

She only does this as an ice breaker

So go ahead with the show

She makes it really clear that she’s a way different person

Than the person that I knew in the past

But once she starts rolling it’s wild like the ocean

And the ocean is violent and vast

We’re in the weeds and we’re taking on water

We’ve been taking on whatever they offer

Trading stickers with some shipwrecked sailors

We’re going to see where this goes

We’re in the woods with the difficult decision

The majorettes not paying much attention

And if the band ever plays the Resurrection

It’s at the end of the show

Something extra in a salt shaker

Turning liquor into spun sugar

She said that we should try to do this every Easter

I said, «we'll see how it goes, we still gotta see the end of the show»