Frank Zappa

Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance

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There will come a time when everybody
Who is lonely will be free...
To sing & dance & love

There will come a time when every evil
That we know will be an evil...
That we can rise above

Who cares if hair is long or short
Or sprayed or partly grayed...
We know that hair ain't where it's at

(there will come a time when you won't
Even be ashamed if you are fat!)

Wah wah-wah wah

There will come a time when everybody
Who is lonely will be free...
To sing & dance & love (dance and love)

There will come a time when every evil
That we know will be an evil...
That we can rise above (rise above)

Who cares if you're so poor you can't afford
To buy a pair of mod a go-go stretch-elastic pants...
There will come a time when you can even
Take your clothes off when you dance

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annazoff On Oct 16, 2009

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by Spooky_Tooth

2y ago

"Take your clothes off when you dance" means to be completely bare, both physically and egoically. This way of thinking frees us to view life differently, where we can SING, DANCE, and LOVE throughout the song, not just at the end. So, you have to enjoy the journey and not the destination. The la-la-la, diddle-diddle-dee part reminds me of life's playfulness under a bare lens and the ambiguity of words to be particularly meaningful. So, it's like words and concepts are great, but they limit our ability to just sing, dance, and love. At the same time, however, concepts are necessary because I believe that the way to rise above evil is a widespread education on human nature and the nature of our own minds so that we don't constantly identify with concepts so that we can ultimately experience things in the present and enjoy them more. That is why I worry about putting all this into words: it is a further conceptualization and potentially takes away from focusing on the music itself--maybe everyone who clicked this page already realizes that, and that's why there are no comments besides this one, lol.

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