KITCHEN WALTZ
by Kate Power
by Kate Power
Over there, rock and you rock in your chair
There's such a beat to you
I overhear you talk in your sleep to the air
Making dreams come true
Baby, would you like to dance,
Here in the kitchen with me?
Maybe we’ve got a chance
And Love’s sweet harmony
Your hand in mine, turning around and around
Dipping to and fro.
You take your time, crossing the room to the sound
"Is that the way it goes?"
Baby, would you like to dance,
Here in the kitchen with me?
Maybe we’ve got a chance
And Love will let you be
Day is done, sure as the tide turns the sea
In the river's soul
Sure, you're the one, striking electricity
Hear the thunder roll
Baby, would you like to dance,
Here in the kitchen with me?
Maybe we’ve got a chance
And Love will set you free
Repeat first verse
Kitchen Waltz
by Kate Power ©1994
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Kitchen Waltz was written on a Sunday afternoon years ago after catching an elderly couple ambling down Broadway downtown. As they passed me on the sidewalk hand-in-hand, I felt how intimately they held hands, gentle and sure, and sighed to wonder doubtfully if I would ever find that kind of love. Thus inspired, I inhabited the thought as if it were true and put myself in the old woman's shoes reflecting her thoughts as she looked upon her man in the rocking chair dozing after dinner from the kitchen, and the image to invite him to dance from her heart brought the seeds of my own heart's longing to the song that came from the unexpected snapshot of love out of nowhere on the street. It wasn't long after I wrote this that Steve and I discovered a new level of companionship and life took a loving turn into kitchen waltzes.
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