Once Was - Marc and the Mambas

Dancing

The little lights are dancing

And the clock on the wall is announcing another day

I keep hearing things you used to say

Go away

And your mouth so dry

As you fake the kiss

Playing the part you do best you can

Lying there naked across the sheets

Like a lizard in the sand

Beckoning me and failing to see

The little girl you’ve become

And you fall as you slink across the room

Your lips parted in a kiss

Parading your flesh in the way you know best

Like a broken seductress

I’m casting my mind back to my fourteenth year

When I learnt about what we call the pleasure of love

And it was new to me then

And a wave of sadness shivers my skin

As I think about what can never be felt again

As I think about what never can be felt again