Eddy Grant

I Don't Wanna Dance

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I love your personality But I don't want our love on show.
Sometimes I think it's insanity The way you go.
With all of the guys on the corner You're the latest trick
You seem to have their number Look they are dancing still

I don't wanna dance
dance with you no more.
I'll never do something to hurt you though
But the feeling is bad the feeling is bad.
I don't wanna dance
dance with you no more.
I'll never do something to hurt you though
But the feeling is bad the feeling is bad.

Now the party's over for us so I'll be on my way.
Now that the things which moved me Are standing still.
I know it's only superstition but I won't look back
Even though I feel your music that is that.

I don't wanna dance
don't wanna dance.
I don't wanna dance
don't wanna dance.
I don't wanna dance
don't wanna dance.
I don't wanna dance
don't wanna dance.
I don't wanna dance

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I Don't Wanna Dance" was a UK number one single for three weeks in November 1982 for Eddy Grant. It was also released in the US in the fall of 1983. Written and produced by Grant it was the most successful of his solo singles in the UK and his first number one since Baby Come Back by The Equals in 1968. "I Don't Wanna Dance" was covered by grindcore band Anal Cunt in 1993 on their album "Morbid Florist," by the Belgian jazzy pop band Lady Linn and her Magnificent Seven in 2008, and by the Newfoundland-based folk group Shanneyganock in 2009.

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