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Thanks For The Dance

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Thanks For The Dance

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Thanks for the dance

I'm sorry you're tired

The evening has hardly begun

Thanks for the dance

Bride of the inspired

One-two-three, one-two-three, one

There is a rose in your hair

Your shoulders are bare

You've been wearing this costume forever

So turn up the music

Pour out the wine

Stop at the surface

The surface is fine

We don't need to go any deeper

Thanks for the dance

I hear that we're married

One-two-three, one-two-three, one

Thanks for the dance

And the baby you carried

It was almost a daughter or a son

And there's nothing to do

But to wonder if you

Are as hopeless as me

And as decent

We're joined in the spirit

Joined at the hip

Joined in the panic

Wondering if

We've come to some sort

Of agreement

It was fine, it was fast

We were first, we were last

In line at the

Temple of pleasure

But the green was so green

And the blue was so blue

I was so I

And you were so you

The crisis was light

As a feather

Thanks for the dance

It was hell, it was swell, it was fun

Thanks for all the dances

One-two-three, one-two-three, one

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