A History of Modern Dance - Open Mike Eagle

First step is intention, second step is a glance

Then divine intervention

Mixing science religion

Pretending like we giants

Promise I was the biggest

For the lovers of dancing, this is color enhancing

Two strangers passing on the metro, what were the chances

People walk into circles

Every audience listens

They taking turns judging, everybody got issues

I be moving my feet and on varied tables I’m eating on

Up, we’re cutting a rug, was it something I said

Put on Erykah’s album, I can tear up a mountain

Get your eagle on, naw, more peregrine falcon

They sit in the darkness

They connect they courting naked in different apartments

Don’t say nothing that’s awkward

Take them up on that offer

And you’ll be partnered up for life flying up in a saucer

And they trying to cat daddy, I’m hella allergic

I’ve been doing my research, so I know that move

I studied them all

I seen that swing

I’ve been watching it for hours, so don’t get too close

She kick real high

They swing real low

I done been in that position so I know that spell

I read that book

I know those lines, I see 'em coming back around

First step is intention, second step is a glance

Then divine intervention

Mix of science religion

Environmentalist dance, make 'em sign a petition

For the lovers of dancing, this is color enhancing

Two strangers passing on the freeway, what were the chances

Don’t be acting embarrassed, that’s the whackest awareness

They get it in before their skin starts cracking and tearing

Heaven’s not for the living

Ordained reverend and comparative monster religion

Sit in my pews

Cruise ship in the Pacific, we can bend the rules

And do the Transylvania boogie to forbidden blues

She did the peanut butter jelly, ain’t nobody looking

The soul train line’s long and it’s sloppy and crooked

The chicken noodle soup and poodle skirt and hula hooping

The bullshit’s twerking, you wanna see the Juicy Fruit

Ain’t no keeping a distance, murdered the shadow

I’ve been doing my research, so I know that move

I studied them all

I seen that swing

I’ve been watching it for hours, so don’t get too close

She kick real high

They swing real low

I done been in that position so I know that spell

I read that book

I know those lines, I see 'em coming back around

We can do it for safety like a factory worker

Trying to balance a beam

Skirt’s floating cause she’s twirling around in a dream

It’s the easiest hustle

You catch a swing and then you squeeze your trapezius muscles

It takes a year or two

Your old friends you done found yourself getting nearer to

Who wants to hear the truth

Well you can do the wop

And plug us in, we got it poppin' in computer shops

First step is intention, second step is a glance

Then divine intervention

Mixing science religion

Pretending like we giants

Promise I was the biggest

For the lovers of dancing, this is color enhancing

Two strangers passing in the hallway, what were the chances