Ritual Dance - Sam Roberts Band

Out on the floor getting hot

We were dancing the foxtrot

Oh!

we didn’t know it was a funeral dance

And a whole generation didn’t know it was a last chance

And on the Eve of Armageddon

Back in those days in '37

We were swinging to the big bands

It was a Ritual Dance

When you push to the edge

And you’re out of your head

You just dance

When it all comes down

When you’re losing ground

When the only way out is to get lost in the crowd

You just dance

When the sky turns red

When you’re left for dead

When the whole world seems to go out of its head

You just dance

When I was young in '81

The Red Tide

Was coming on

We were finished with disco and doing the Apocalypse Dance

When you’re waiting for the bomb and you’re trying to get it on

You just dance

The situation is hostile

Resistance is futile

So just dance

When you’re pushed to the edge

And you’re out of your head

You just dance

When it all comes down

When you’re losing ground

When the only way out is to get lost in the crowd

You just dance

When the sky turns red

When you’re left for dead

When the whole world seems to go out of it’s head

You just dance

We all know the song

And we all know the way that it ends

We all sing along

And the band plays it over again…

When you’re waiting for the bomb and you’re trying to get it on

You just dance

When you’re pushed to the edge

And you’re out of your head

You just dance

When it all comes down

When you’re losing ground

When the only way out is to get lost in the crowd

You just dance

When the sky turns red

When you’re left for dead

When the whole world seems to go out of it’s head

You just dance

We all know the song

And we all know the way that it ends

We all sing along

And the band plays it over again…