From the recording Strange Tide (EP)
Lyrics
(Play something we can dance to, something we can dance to, hey, buddy, can you play something we can dance to)
Got your band in the corner,
Working class song and dance
Got your conventioneer and pensioner on a tear
Your young lovers stoned on romance
Got your ice and liquor shaking, unions forsaken
Might be time to loosen that tie, my friend
Got your call girl’s arrow finding her target
In elevator, they will soon ascend
Somebody’s fantasy will happen on this very night
Secrets tucked away so neatly, so discretely hidden from daylight
From the truth, consequence and present tense
And I’ll be crossing that river soon
On my way to take up this fight
(Hey, buddy, can you play something we can dance to, something we can dance to, hey man, play something we can dance to)
It’s over the river and under the hood
Of this ink dark playground at night where it’s play for keeps, the cost is steep
Yeah, I hear you pal, but it’s well above my pay grade
To set your world right
You’ve got your skin and money, got your marble and glass
Everybody’s getting tight
Going all the way down
‘til they can’t feel, can’t stop, can’t walk upright
But somebody’s fantasy will happen on this very night
Secrets tucked away so neatly, so discretely hidden from daylight
From the truth and consequence and present tense
And I’m crossing that river soon
On my way to take up this fight
Ah, here I go
Right outside this window of this privileged bubble
Pour soul strung out on bench
Rattling a ragged cup of nickel and dime
It's a brutal contrast, like an open wound
When her eyes met mine, this songbird lost his tune
Tripped the wire, blown open one more time
She can’t eat a belly full of rhythm
What good is this, this bed of rhyme
Somebody’s fantasy will happen on this very night
Secrets tucked away so neatly, so discretely hidden from daylight
From the truth, from consequence and present tense
I'm 'a cross that river soon
On my way to take up this fight
(How 'bout you play something we can dance to)
Somebody’s fantasy will happen on this very night
Secrets tucked away so neatly, so discretely hidden from daylight
From the truth, from consequence and present tense
I'm gonna cross that river soon
On my way to take up this fight
To take up this fight
(Hey buddy, play something we can dance to, something we can dance to, hey buddy, got something we can dance to)