Dance for You
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Dance for You Lyrics
Mind like a prison cell
But feet untethered and sane
I wandered out hopeless and sad
No thought of where I'd go
Or how I'd ever get back
There is an answer
I haven't found it
But I will keep dancing 'till I do (ooh)
I boogied down gargoyle streets
Searching in every face
For something I could believe
I knelt beneath one hundred saints
I wanna feel the breath
Of a force I cannot explain
There is an answer
I haven't found it
But I will keep dancing till I do (ooh)
Dance for you
[Longstrethian orchestral break]
I haven't found it
But I will keep dancing till I do (ooh)
Dance for you
Dance for you
Dance for you
About
As Dave Longstreth told music critic Michaelangelo Matos:
The lyrics for me were a huge, focus … this time. In the past I’ve always tended to regard lyrics as they can do whatever they need to as long as they don’t really get in the way of the music itself…. This time around it’s very different. I got obsessed with language. I’d always tended to regard song lyrics as sort of a bastard medium, because they’re subjugated under the music. If you were to regard them as poetry it would be bad, embarrassing, confessional poetry—a lot of the lyrics I love. So I came to the idea of writing lyrics with a certain amount of—I don’t know if you’d call it disdain, but I just didn’t really take them on. I didn’t know what to do with them. The prospect of writing some sort of embarrassing fake poetry or something would be mortifying.
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