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No Dancing

from The Heart Collector by Adam Levy

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I heard a clock strike thirteen times
The streets were paved with crooked lines
My teardrops tasted like plum wine
The day the dancing stopped
The words fell out of all the books
The jailhouse turned out all the crooks
And Miss Gibraltar lost her looks
The ay the dancing stopped

No Watusi, no more Cuban slide
No more shang-a-lang, hips swaying side to side
Hang your shoes up on the wall, tell your lover not to call
Throw a blanket on the floor, 'cause they're ain't no dancing no more

A watermelon with no rind
A dictionary redefined
A staring contest for the blind
The day the dancing stopped
The laws of physics overturned
Rome fiddled while old Nero burned
And all the lessons got unlearned
The day the dancing stopped

No Watusi, no more Cuban slide
No more shang-a-lang, hips swaying side to side
Hang your shoes up on the wall, tell your lover not to call
Throw a blanket on the floor, 'cause they're ain't no dancing no more

I saw my shadow in the shade
Honeybees made lemonade
Uranus was in retrograde
The day the dancing stopped
Chicken Little kissed the sky
A knock-knock joke done made me cry
And no one knew the reason why
The day the dancing stopped

No Watusi, no more Cuban slide
No more shang-a-lang, hips swaying side to side
Hang your shoes up on the wall, tell your lover not to call
Throw a blanket on the floor, 'cause they're ain't no dancing no more

Hang your shoes up on the wall, tell your lover not to call
Throw a blanket on the floor, 'cause they're ain't no dancing no more
No, there ain't no dancing no more
Ain't no dancing
No dancing
No dancing
No
[and so on...]

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from The Heart Collector, released February 14, 2011

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Adam Levy New York, New York

Adam Levy is an NYC-based guitarist with 30 years of experience as a performing artist, studio musician, journalist, and educator.

He has released more than a dozen albums of his own, and is featured on recordings by Norah Jones, Vulfpeck, Ani DiFranco, Allen Toussaint, and other renowned artists. He has toured extensively as a solo artist and as a collaborator. ... more

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