Lyrics Eric Burdon

Eric Burdon

Spill The Wine

Spill the wine and take that pearl, Spill the wine and

take that pearl

Spill the wine and take that pearl, Spill the wine and

take that pearl

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

And I fell asleep and dreamed

I dreamed I was in a Hollywood movie

And that I was the star of the movie

This really blew my mind, the fact that me,

An overfed, long-haired 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 kings

I stood high upon a mountain top, naked to the world

In front of every kind of girl, there was

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 and take that pearl, Spill the wine and

take that pearl

Spill the wine and take that pearl, Spill the wine and

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 and take that pearl, Spill the wine and

take that pearl

Spill the wine and take that pearl, Spill the wine and

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 drank it, she said:

Spill the wine and take that pearl, Spill the wine and

take that pearl