Lyrics Graham Parker

Graham Parker

Dancing For Money

When I ask you for a light you don't turn the lights out

When I'm looking for a fight you don't punch my lights out

Sometimes they say love is invincible

I wouldn't go as far as to say that

One thing I know one thing is certain honey

We're not dancing for money ooh ooh

When I ask you for a buck you don't call me deer

When I try to push my luck you don't twist my ear

Sometimes when I'm blind drunk I see it all

But I can't do anything about it

I fall on my face and jerk like a puppet honey

Just like dancing for money (then) instrumental verse

Familiarity breeds contempt so I turn off the radio

From life's pain I'm not exempt I'm just lucky I can go

Some other place where there's a sun up high

Right in my face for once in a lifetime

I'm not a slave, I'm not a captain honey

I'm not dancing for money

I'm not a slave, I'm not a captive

I'm not in chains or nailed to a cross

One thing's for sure one thing is certain honey

I'm not dancing for money I'm not dancing for money

Ooh not dancing for money

Ooh not dancing for money

Ooh not dancing for money

Ooh not dancing for money