Fancy Dancer
an adjective and noun frozen in time
What does it take to be a fancy dancer? Maybe you think a fancy dancer would be someone who wears special clothing and dances tippy-toe. Or maybe you think it’s someone who wears a tux, top hat, shiny shoes, and dances with a stylish cane. Or maybe you’re certain it’s someone who choreographs a group of dancers to a deep beat in perfect synchronicity…while dancing and singing along. Well, I’m here to tell you…if you picked any one of those or a dozen others…you’re wrong.
The only true fancy dancer there is exists frozen in your minds’s eye. She’s not the dancer on the TV screen. He’s not the dancer in the movies. They’re not the dancers on Broadway. She or he or they only exist in a captured moment. No, not that photo you snapped with your iPhone. Or that video you took. Only in that singular moment captured in your mind’s eye. If you don’t understand what I’m talking about, you might never actually know a fancy dancer. If you do understand, you might actually BE someone’s…
Fancy Dancer
When she gets up in the morning,
There’s a smile upon her face.
When she goes to bed at night,
I can see it hasn’t lost its place.
And she moves just like the lightning
Never landing in the same place twice.
She can make the tiger jealous;
She’s so much more than sugar and spice.
She’s a fancy dancer.
Yeah, she’s a fancy dancer.
You can hear angels when she talks.
She makes music when she walks.
There ain’t no doubt in my mind; she’s a fancy dancer.
Well, she holds my heart in limbo.
I don’t know where she’s gonna turn next.
And her shadow keeps me spellbound.
Yeah, she makes me want to really be hexed,
And I watch her glide in circles,
And her face begins to glow,
Then her eyes look deep inside me.
I know she knows I know…
That she’s a…
repeat chorus
Oh, oh, the dream of every man…
Oh, oh, is to catch one if he can…
But he’d better have a plan…
Oh, oh, oh, oh…she’s a fancy dancer.
repeat chorus to end
© 1986
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