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Dance Dance Dance is about the end of the world, and the need to dance on regardless. It was inspired by a ballet dance I saw a young girl perform at a steampunk event I played at the Kew Bridge Steam Museum.

It was a great performance, but I couldn't help think it would be even better if the entire world was crumbling around her.

Musically this is a straight verse, chorus pop song that happens to haeva nifty little 5/4 riff in the chorus. Cos you can dance to 5/4, right?

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I saw a girl dancing on the floor
Dancing on the floor of an engine room
Her feet skipped here and there
While bricks and mortar fell

I saw a man with brass where hands should be
Weaving flashing lights in the engine room
The look upon his face
This fragile state of mind

Dance Dance Dance
While the world around you burns
Round Round Round
With a smile upon your face
Even when the sun is asleep and red up in the sky
Dance Dance Dance while the world around you burns

We're here, dancing on the floor,
Dancing on the floor as the cracks appear
But in this state of mind
Nothing stops our

Dance Dance Dance
While the world around you burns
Round Round Round
With a smile upon your face
Even when the sun is asleep and red up in the sky
Dance Dance Dance while the world around you burns

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from Three Rows Of Teeth (2016 expanded edition), released October 7, 2016

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Tom Slatter London

A latter-day Victorian street-theatre barker with a guitar promising tales of mystery, imagination, ‘orrible murders and bloody great waving tentacles’ is how Tom Slatter has been described. Since 2010 he has been scaring audiences with six albums and numerous EPs of storytelling songs. ... more

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