Dancing Song

We may not be wearing perfect shoes

We may not know sophisticated moves

We may not begin from a graceful stance

But in the end we're going to start to dance

We may be standing in a public place

Careful clothing, proper public faces

When the social situation says we can't

Right about then, we're going to start to dance

And the ghost of something gone

Is going to try our bodies on

And break a smile a mile wide

When we dance to save our lives

When we dance to save our lives

Every limb long atrophied away

Will be brought back from the dead that day

Every ego, cool and in control, will suddenly be

Doing the Tango, doing the Do-Si-Do

After every remedy of an intellectual sort

We will dance a desperate dance, a dance of last resort

And it won't matter what kind of degrees we hold

We'll be relying on what we do not know

And the ghost of something gone

Is going to try our bodies on

And holler "hey, it's about time"

When we dance to save our lives

And the ghost of something gone

Is going to try our bodies on

Exclaiming "hallelujah child!"

When we dance to save our lives

When we dance to save our lives