If You Can Read (You Can Cook)

from "at_Home​/​at_Play" EP by Housewarming Project

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Music & Lyrics by Jeremy Siskind

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If you can read, you can cook.
If you can read, you can cook.
Measure on a spoon,
Mix it in a bowl,
Heat it on the stove,
Serve it when it’s cold.
If you can read, you can cook, you can cook.
If you can read, you can cook.

But people don’t come with a clear recipe,
The perfect ingredients bring no guarantee.
You hold them, console them, and hope for the best,
But whether they’ll love you is anyone’s guess.

If you can read, you can cook.
If you can read, you can cook.
Buy the berries fresh
At the corner store,
Cook ‘em like a chef
Until they beg for more.
If you can read, you can cook, you can cook.
If you can read, you can cook.

But lovers don’t boil down to teaspoons and cups –
To locate a soul mate takes timing and luck.
You cook and you clean and you hope and you pray
And once they arrive, you can’t force them to stay.

If you can read, you can cook.
If you can read, you can cook.
Roast it ‘til it burns
Or serve it while it’s rare,
Double the amounts,
So you have enough to share.
If you can read, you can cook, you can cook.
If you can read, you can cook.

A cake’s like a lover who makes your heart leap,
You beat all the eggs, and you drape it with sweets.
If only my lover were more like a cake,
My heart wouldn’t mind all the beatings it takes.

If you can read, you can cook.
If you can read, you can cook.
Add some curry paste,
For a little spice,
Salt it to the taste,
And serve it over rice.
Just follow the lead of those words in the book,
If you can read, you can cook!

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from "at_Home​/​at_Play" EP, released January 10, 2018

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Housewarming Project New York, New York

Vocalist Nancy Harms ushers a listener into the world of a piece with her innate story-telling abilities; Lucas Pino colors the music with whispering tenor work, mournful clarinet, and murmuring bass clarinet; and Jeremy Siskind sonically rounds out the music with sparkling, Debussian harmony. ... more

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