Lyrics
I woke this morning and I wondered was it true,
forgive and live, and try to give my heart to something new
but memory is a curse at times and conscience not much more,
this song is wrong and won’t belong it won’t settle any score
‘cause I can’t make them go away, the ghost of things I said
and I can’t forget what I will never know, like the music in her head.
dance dance dance, gabriella dance, dance
the house that we called home there was never any doubt
that the dream you dreamed when you dreamed was a dream of getting out.
come friday after work each week we’d count up all our pay
and the miles, our trails and the many styles we might choose to get away.
talking through the night, planning for our fame,
while gabriela danced her dance as dieing candle flame
dance dance dance, gabriella dance, dance
she called herself a refugee from secret kind of war
with no use for truth as some excuse for taking something more.
when talk would gather around us and smoke would start to rise
she’d dance her dance in this strange trance and I’d come to realize
there was something in her older than her face would ever show
like the broken glass in a mirror frame and the story that it knows
dance dance dance, gabriella dance, dance
her body moves around me in the shadows of this room.
that night, the candlelight so bright and some borrowed aching tune.
maybe i took what was not mine or she gave and I was wrong.
this darkened heart just played its part and sorrow played along.
a candle flame in the morning light can seem to fade away
and all the years that pass one night can seem like just one day
dance dance dance, gabriella dance, dance
it’s like that house was standing still with the shadows that it brings
and her pain remains the sad refrain to this song I try to sing.
but shadows never seem to stay when you need them comes the light
then they take and brake the things you’d make from the fragments of your life.
last night I spoke her name though I knew she was not there.
ain’t that what some fools call poetry and other fools call prayer?
dance dance dance, gabriella dance, dance
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