Tapdance Lyrics - Kevin Devine

You get back here 

You do it slowly 

Do it calm 

Now don't be so angry 

I got something 

I've been chasing every day 

Since I started walking 

It just sits there 

In the distance 

It always flirts with the tips of my fingers 

You thought that 

You could love it 

Until it touched you 

And now you just wanna stop it 

Well, I'm sorry 

It's not likely 

It was here when you got here 

And it'll be here when you're not here no more 

And then some days 

I get lucky 

I can focus and things are less shaky 

And I scrape you 

Off the pale moon 

And I slip you 

Into soft shoes 

And you tapdance 

To a jazz band 

On a cruise ship 

Near an island 

And your hair's up 

You wear a short dress 

And a wide smile 

You're movements are careless 

It's a daydream 

I keep having 

To make the clocks move 

While I'm working 

Or a bad joke 

I can't sit through 

And I smile because I feel like I have to 

But if you'd look under the table 

You'd see I'm playing with my knife 

I'm slicing stripes into my kneecaps 

And I'm struggling just to come off polite 

We could be a snapshot framed and hung like a portrait 

What if that's true and I'm the only one who knows it?