key west episode

from: ‘best of’
vol. II (two) – chapter 11 (eleven)
song 134/5
spanish mission, album / CD

1977

larry..curtis..spurlock

key west episode

one
i’ve been home a week now
but that voice is still haunting me
i was at the end of the earth
in my pop’s g.m.c.
no one knows what i’m thinking
cause i haven’t let it go too far
i told them i went down south
but i was visiting another star

i was in so deep in paradise
but she promised to get me back to my place
my body was in her soul that night
but her soul was in outer space

chorus
and she said larry
let’s go the spanish mission
there will be a place for us there
baby
let’s walk up to the spanish mission
you will find yourself
if you can stand the scare
you will find yourself, if you can stand the scare

two
so she reached out and grabbed me
although both of her hands were free
her smiling face and buttered tan
was just what i wanted to see
i had met her just two hours before
but i felt like i knew her ten years
she told me everything she could
and i listened patiently for five beers

i was in so deep in paradise
but she brought me back into her eyes
she had plenty of words to make me laugh
and a few to make me cry

(repeat) chorus

three
and so up the steps of old
and through a huge nautical front door
we passed through the vestibule
and scampered down a corridor
she knew just where to take me
and i never questioned her word
later, although no one was around
there was something i though i had heard
my eyes were filled with emptiness
but still it didn’t seem right
and when i turned back around
she had vanished in the night

i was in so deep in paradise
but she promised not to leave me alone
although without her beside me
i was like a dog without a bone

(repeat) chorus

four
i assumed she was only playing a game
so i put my trousers back on
i looked til fear engulfed me
but decided she must have gone
then on my way out onto the lawn
a man was standing there
he said son, please don’t ever tell anyone
you and my daughter were in there
a man who looked like you
took her in there in 1969
somebody slipped in and killed them both
but she comes back from time to time

i was in so deep in paradise
but she promised to get me back to my place
my body was in her soul that night
but her soul was in outer space

(repeat) chorus ... 2X -out-

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