i was once out strolling
one very hot summer’s day
when i thought i’d lay myself down to rest
in a big field of tall grass
i lay there in the sun
and felt it caressing my face
as i fell asleep and dreamed
i dreamed i was in a hollywood movie yes i did
and that i was the star of the movie
this really blew my mind
the fact that me an overfed longhaired leaping gnome
should be the star of a hollywood movie
but there i was
i was taken to a place
the hall of the mountain king
i stood high up on a mountaintop
naked to the world
in front of
every kind of girl
there was long ones tall ones short ones brown ones
black ones round ones big ones
crazy ones
out of the middle
came a lady
she whispered in my ear
something crazy
she said
spill the wine dig that girl
spill the wine take that pearl
i thought to myself
what could that mean
am i going crazy
or is this just a dream
now wait a minute i know i’m lying in a field of grass somewhere
so it’s all in my head
and then
i heard her say
one more time
spill the wine take that pearl
i could feel hot flames of fire roaring at my back
as she disappeared
but soon she returned
in her hand was a bottle of wine
in the other a glass
she poured some of the wine from the bottle into the glass
and raised it to her lips
and just before she drunk it
she said
take the wine take that pearl
spill the wine take that pearl
Artist: Eric Burdon And War
Year: 1970
Decade: 70s
Language: en
Word Count: 137