Elvis Costello — No Dancing

[Verse 1] I know that she has made a fool of him Like girls have done so many nights before time and time again Life is so strange, I don't know why But somebody, somebody has to cry There's gonna be no dancing when they get home [Chorus] There's gonna be no dancing There's gonna be no dancing There's gonna be no dancing when they get home [Verse 2] Now he's telling her every little thing he's done Once he glanced at the jackets of some paperbacks, now he's read every one He's such a drag, he's not insane It's just that everybody has to feel his pain There's gonna be no dancing when they get home [Bridge] He's getting down on his knees He finds that the girl is not so easy to please Oh, oh, after all, his nights were just a paper striptease She's caught it like some disease [Chorus] If he says, "No dancing," there's gonna be no dancing There's gonna be no dancing on my own [Verse 3] She can't even speak to him, he can't face her now He says, "Even though I want to shake your hand, all I ever do is bow So now you see how it can be Why can't you give me anything but sympathy?" [Outro] There's gonna be no dancing There's gonna be no dancing There's gonna be no dancing There's gonna be no dancing There's gonna be no dancing on my own