Annotated lyrics for The Hold Steady song 'Spices' - 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 bartenders were strangling their 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 we're back in touch and we're 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 by Central Smoke & 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 the 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 it 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 icebreaker / 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