Story Behind The Song
watching a twenty something actress in NYC who thought she was talented and who clearly was not.
Song Description
a young woman trying to be a broadway star, working in a diner, practising all the time, but who actually has no talent. The pitfalls of a would-be star.
| Song Length |
4:17 |
Genre |
Latin - General |
| Lead Vocal |
Female Vocal |
Mood |
Disturbed, Disconcerted |
| Subject |
Town, Village, Artist |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
?Hell?s Kitchen? Meryl Leppard c. Jan. 2005
Step on the cracks
And you?ll go through to China
Careful girl of what you do not know
Look at the facts
You?re working in a diner
Waitressing for tips and when it?s slow
You?re out the back practising a tambourine
Cause you?re cooking up a gypsy band
In Hell?s Kitchen.
Dancing alone
Wearing next to nothing
Careful girl of where you aim that smile
Working the moves
To get to Forty Second
At this rate it?s gonna take a while
Shake and a roll and ribbons on a tambourine
Cause you?re cooking up a gypsy band
In Hell?s Kitchen
Tell me what you?re gonna do
When your beauty fades
how you?re gonna
Stop the freezing rain on your parade
You?re living in a sweet little fantasy
A star, well a wanna-be,
A Broadway baby, maybe in your mind.
You can walk a dog for a pretty penny
Love, well there won?t be any
Just thieves and the punks
And the junkies who lie
In the hallways of every dirty street
In Hell?s Kitchen
You?re cooking up a gypsy band
In Hell?s Kitchen
Cooking up a gypsy band
In Hell?s Kitchen.
Cooking up a gypsy band