Dancing With Tears In My Eyes Lyrics

Lyric discussion by doctorbeat 

Cover art for Dancing With Tears In My Eyes lyrics by Ultravox

The song is not about nuclear holocaust. It's about emotions, human relations and life itself. Only when death approaches do humans realize what they have been missing and the beauty of life. I like how the people in the video use their last time to be together instead of pointlessly freaking out. So the song teaches us to life our life, show our true emotions to other people and cherish what we have. Peace !

My Interpretation

@doctorbeat Midge did an interview in 2016 where he specifically explained that it was about what people's reaction to impending doom from a nuclear war would be. He took great inspiration from David Bowie's song Five Years.