So this is odd,
The painful realization
That all has gone wrong
And nobody cares at all,
And nobody cares at all.

So you buried all your lover's clothes
And burned the letters lover wrote,
But it doesn't make it any better.
Does it make it any better?
And the plaster dented from your fist
In the hall where you had your first kiss
Reminds you that the memories will fade.

So this is strange,
Our sidestepping has come to be
A brilliant dance
Where nobody leads at all,
Where nobody leads at all.

And the picture frames are facing down
And the ringing from this empty sound
Is deafening and keeping you from sleep.
And breathing is a foreign task
And thinking's just too much to ask
And you're measuring your minutes by a clock that's blinking eights.

Well, this is incredible.
Starving, insatiable,
Yes, this is love for the first time.
And you'd like to think that you were invincible.
Yeah, well weren't we all once
Before we felt loss for the first time?
Well this is the last time.


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The Brilliant Dance Lyrics as written by Christopher Andrew Carrabba

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    I think that this is my favorite song off of the CD "The Places that you have come to Fear the most" It's just so gr8! The lyrics are so gr8! I love this band. I think that the whole CD kicks ass. Dashboard is just so wonderful. They write gr8 Emo! All they're CDs are amazing. It's kool that they're like the only Emo band that plp really know of that's actually popular really. Dashboard is one of my all time favorite bands. I'm so happy that I finally got this CD because now I can't stop listening to it. O well! I love the way he sings "Never" in this song. I think that it's the best part. I can just listen to that word over and over again and not get sick of it! This band is just so gr8! ~aMbEr*

    SMUSER19348on August 06, 2002   Link

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