Dance With Me - Ryan Long

There at the table my daughter and I

just ate the last of my mother’s pie

its the fifth of december and I act like I don’t know

where it is she wants to go

she pushed back her chair and took my hand

come into the living room and put on my

favorite band

Dad its my birthday dont miss your chance

ask me to dance

so I said dance with me

dance with me Jen

I love to feel you in my arms again

dance with me

dance with me jen

I love to feel you in my arms again

several years later my daughter and I

can’t get along no matter how hard I try

shes got herself a boyfriend who lives on down our road

his intentions, I dont know

on her birthday that same year

I went and put on that music she loved to hear

I said girl its your birthday I don’t wanna miss my chance

I’m gonna ask you to dance

I said dance with me

dance with me Jen

I’d love to feel you in my arms again

dance with me

dance with me Jen

I’d love to feel you in my arms again

she turned her head and grabbed her coat

she didn’t look back when she slammed the door

she took a bus down to texas with that boy down the road

had no idea that he’d leave her there alone

she was drinking her freedom and wheathering the cold

too stubborn to come back home

she finally got a job at a night time club

she was dancing on tables for men she didn’t love

she thought if my daddy could see me now,

he’d never take me back no way no how

oh how she longed to hear him say

dance with me

dance with me Jen

I’d love to feel you in my arms again

dance with me

dance with me Jen

I’d love to feel you in my arms again

found out from her boyfriend who lived down the road

he left her in texas and he’d moved back home

he had her address and I drove all night long

just to find that she was gone

it was 10 in the morning when I found out what she did

I left a note at the club

got in my car drove home again

when she read it she cried alone

hopped a bus and headed home

cause that note it read

dance with me

dance with me Jen

I’d love to feel you in my arms again

dance with me

dance with me Jen

I’d love to feel you in my arms again