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She walks alone down a sleazy backstreet |
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Around a corner, up an alley to a dead end |
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There under a small blue light |
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She enters an unmarked doorway |
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(A low heartbeat, a low pounding escapes into the night) |
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This is a place she goes to fulfill a very basic need |
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Something people have been doing since the dawn of man |
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To communicate without talking |
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If she needs something |
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She makes a gesture with her hand |
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And mouths what she wants |
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She wants to make a connection |
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A certain kind of connection |
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No this is not about something from the black market |
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This is about no questions |
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This is about smoke and sweat and beats |
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This is about no message |
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|
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Take your partner by the hand |
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He's a woman, she's a man |
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What's so hard to understand |
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Take your partner by the hand |
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Mona in the promised land |
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Take your partner by the hand |
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Keep it simple if you can |
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Take your partner by the hand |
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|
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Wait a minute,just listen |
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At the club they circle around some sex goddess like vultures |
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Flashbulbs popping |
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Like bees around their queen |
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She is completely indifferent to all the commotion |
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And orders some mango tango ice cream by sign language |
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She's approached by some wild-eyed poet drunk with love |
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I like her easy refusal, the way she shakes her head |
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She lives these days in the attic of an old dance hall |
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That's been shut down for years |
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And swears there's times when she can hear feet shuffling below |
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And can see the shadows swaying, moving to the music |
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|
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Take your partner by the hand |
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He's a woman, she's a man |
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What's so hard to understand |
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Take your partner by the hand |
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|
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Elevator going up |
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Fifth floor |
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Lady's handbags, shoes, leather accessories, and electronics |
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Wait a minute, where am I, on this elevator to nowhere |
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Going up, going down |
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Then like a hallucination |
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I saw her out of the corner of my eye |
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Studying some shoes very carefully |
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She definitely had a particular purpose for these shoes in mind |
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Then as quickly as she appeared, she disappeared |
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Back into the slash and burn of New York |
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Ah, stuck in traffic |
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Crosstown, the stress of not moving |
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She described it as like being locked in a car |
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With a madman behind the wheel |
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And the radio tuned to static |
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|
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Take your partner by the hand |
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He's a woman, she's a man |
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What's so hard to understand |
| [05:37.14] |
Take your partner by the hand |
| [05:42.90] |
Mona in the promised land |
| [05:48.28] |
Take your partner by the hand |
| [05:53.75] |
Keep it simple if you can |
| [05:59.29] |
Take your partner by the hand |
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Take your partner by the hand |
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Take your partner by the hand |