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No Dancing Lyrics
Oh I know that she
Has made a fool of him
Like girls have done so many nights before
Time and time again
Life is so strange
I don't know why
But somebody, somebody has to cry
There's gonna be no dancing when they get home
There's gonna be no dancing
There's gonna be no dancing
There's gonna be no dancing when they get home
Now he's telling her
Every little thing he's done
Once he glanced at the jackets of some paperbacks
Now he's read every one
He's such a drag
He's not insane
It's just that everybody
Has to feel his pain
There's gonna be no dancing when they get home
He's getting down on his knees
He finds that the girl is not so easy to please
Oh oh, after all, his nights were just a paper striptease
She's caught it like some disease
If he says no dancing
There's gonna be no dancing
There's gonna be no dancing on my own
She can't even speak to him
He can't face her now
He says "Even though I wanna shake your hand
All I ever do is bow
So now you see
How can it be
Why can't you give me anythin' but sympathy?"
There's gonna be no dancing
There's gonna be no dancing
There's gonna be no dancing
There's gonna be no dancing
There's gonna be no dancing on my own
Has made a fool of him
Like girls have done so many nights before
Time and time again
Life is so strange
I don't know why
But somebody, somebody has to cry
There's gonna be no dancing when they get home
There's gonna be no dancing
There's gonna be no dancing
There's gonna be no dancing when they get home
Now he's telling her
Every little thing he's done
Once he glanced at the jackets of some paperbacks
Now he's read every one
He's such a drag
He's not insane
It's just that everybody
Has to feel his pain
There's gonna be no dancing when they get home
He's getting down on his knees
He finds that the girl is not so easy to please
Oh oh, after all, his nights were just a paper striptease
She's caught it like some disease
If he says no dancing
There's gonna be no dancing
There's gonna be no dancing on my own
She can't even speak to him
He can't face her now
He says "Even though I wanna shake your hand
All I ever do is bow
So now you see
How can it be
Why can't you give me anythin' but sympathy?"
There's gonna be no dancing
There's gonna be no dancing
There's gonna be no dancing
There's gonna be no dancing
There's gonna be no dancing on my own
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Dancing = Sex. Scenes from a relationship falling apart, but they don't break up. She's embarrased him in front of others, resulting in no sex when they get home. Communication breakdown in a couple, "She can't even speak to him He can't face her now." Potentially there's violence there "he's not insane it's just that everybody has to feel his pain." I hear the same theme in as in "Possession" from "Get Happy" only there the storyteller leaves the relationship "I'll get out before the violence, or the tears or the silence."
As usual, it's another song by Elvis about our "last taboo" as D.H.Lawrence put it: Beautiful, uninhibited, joyous, animal, angelic sex. The song says "no dancing, but this is an excellent portrait of the dance of neurosis; the fear of love, the fear of connection.
God, the backing vocals on this song are amazing.
This is about domestic violence.
Don't care to try decipher these poorly crafted riddles.