The Empty Dancehall  


Bb
Ribbons from your dancing shoes in shreds and threads and feeling used
    Dm
Are hanging up our yesterdays
Bb
Down the street, the empty dancehall due to empty circumstance
    Dm
All seem to be closed down today
G
  And through the silence

Cm
   I hear the word for love
Ab
   I hear the word for death
Cm                      Bb  G
   But I don't hear any answer
Cm                             Ab
   While death can talk of la mort
                         Bb
And love can whisper l'amour
              G    F   Eb  Gm
The floor has lost its dancers

Bb
Take your partner by the hand and dance the ghost of a sarabande
Dm
Moving like a miracle
Bb
Shoe to shoe and cheek to cheek every day of every week
Dm
Step by step by century
G
  Through the silence

Cm
   I hear the word for love
Ab
   I hear the word for death
Cm                      Bb  G
   But I don't hear any answer
Cm                             Ab
   While death can talk of la mort
                         Bb
And love can whisper l'amour
              G    F   Eb  Gm  D  Bb  Eb  D  Gm  D  Bb  Eb  D
The floor has lost its dancers

Cm
   I hear the word for love
Ab
   I hear the word for death
Cm                      Bb  G
   But I don't hear any answer
Cm                             Ab
   While death can talk of la mort
                         Bb
And love can whisper l'amour
              G    F   Eb  Gm   Cm  Ab  Cm  Ab  Cm  Ab  Cm  Ab  Cm  Ab  Cm
The floor has lost its dancers now,            now