Step Ahead - Fiction

If you could you teach me to dance

Like I don’t have the soul of a white man

Like I don’t have seven left feet

I would be replete

Safe in the house

That your arms have built me

But I don’t think I can keep up

With the footwork

And you’re one step ahead

I’m just one step behind

You’re just one step ahead

I’m just one step behind

I scared off all the crows

When I was out practicing my shuffle

And all the neighbours said what a strange man

But they can’t understand

How I want to animate these limbs

How I wish you could feel them interlocking

And you’re one step ahead

I’m just one step behind

You’re just one step ahead

I’m just one step behind