Buttermilk Brine
Yearning for Love and Fried Chicken
Lyrics
I like black coffee
I enjoy black coffee
Take honey in my tea
I prefer honey in my tea
She's loving everybody
A person (she) is romantically involved with others
Nobody's loving me
Feeling unloved or neglected
I'm looking for someone
Searching for someone
To treat me nice and kind
Desiring to be treated kindly
Makes me fried chicken
Expressing desire for a partner who cooks fried chicken
Buttermilk in the brine
Reference to using buttermilk in the process of brining
Anyway that you construe it
Regardless of interpretation, open to assistance or companionship
You know that I could use you tonight
Expressing a need for companionship tonight
You said you're gonna do it
Confirmation or promise to fulfill a commitment
With your eyes wide open this time
Commitment with full awareness and understanding
Any old day now
At an unspecified time in the future
I'm gonna find the time
Planning to find time for something important
Grow me up a garden
Planning to nurture and cultivate a garden
Pick it right off the vine
Harvesting directly from the plant
The moon shone down like headlights
The moon is bright and clear like headlights, cutting through fog
Cutting through the fog
Visual imagery of moonlight in a foggy setting
Me and my old lady
The speaker and their romantic partner living comfortably
Living high on the hog
Living in luxury or abundance
Anyway that you construe it
Open to assistance or companionship, echoing line 9
You know that I could use you tonight
Reiteration of the need for companionship tonight
You said you're gonna do it
Confirmation or promise to fulfill a commitment, echoing line 11
With your eyes wide open this time
Commitment with full awareness and understanding, echoing line 12
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