Preamble: for this Saturday's theme of DANCE.

 

I hear music. The beat begins.

It taps gently at my consciousness and slowly enters in.

It slides through my skull like the lift of warm caffeine

Raising pulse, slowing thoughts, it’s as if I’m in a dream…

Step by step I’m vanquished, it takes over my brain

It numbs my higher functions, until nothing remains

But the essence of me, and the desire to DANCE.

 

I wanna dance like no one is watching

I wanna dance like nobody cares

I wanna dance as if it meant something

But do I dare? Do I dare?

Dare I lose my mind and let my body take control

As the music’s getting louder and the self-made drugs take hold

Do I dare to take the next, big step into the dance?

I long to choose that state, I want to fall into the trance,

I want to lose all the weight that is holding me down

All the bits of being me that tie me to the ground

I want to let myself let go

Jung’s death of the ego

I want to be at one with everyone that’s on this dance floor

And with every single being that has ever danced before

As the music that pours from the stage

Joins each note that echoes through the ages

There’s no past and no future to hold us in chains

As the beat becomes my heartbeat and the tune flows in my veins

You gotta dance like a sacrifice in some ancient rite

You gotta dance like you know you’re gonna dance all night

You gotta dance though tomorrow it’ll hurt like hell

You gotta dance like you’re weaving some kind of magic spell

Dance against the tide

Like an act of suicide

You gotta dance for the glory of a cause to defend

You gotta dance like the music is never gonna end

 

Cos when it does,

And you stop to catch your breath

The silence will be loud

And the stillness will be like death.