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