Perhaps the Speaker of the House Would Like to Dance

from Hoard by Toby Jackson

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I'm not really sure how I wrote this riff. I don't remember the process at all. It's the weirdest, classicaliest thing I've ever come up with.

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Bet sir does a mean foxtrot,
Why not show us some moves?
Let’s forget the threat of war for a moment,
And take time to recognise the good in everyone.

You’ve got such pretty eyes,
In the firelight they glisten like time-bombs.
She whispered as she turned the other way,
And took out a country with nuclear gaze.

But she wasn’t really paying attention,
I guess that’s why I fell in love.
And in that she still owes me that seven pounds,
I bet you’ll dance better than her, m’ludd.

Maybe take a turn through the Garden of Eden,
Just off the M1, past Watford Gap.
Sample the airs of a simpler nation,
Tell us to our faces we’re lesser than you.

Mr. Speaker I’m dying to give you an answer,
But I’m too cold and content
To dance with you a triumphant tango,
A tarantella built for two.

She walked away that night safe in the knowledge,
We’d be plotting another tally chart tonight,
To mark another poor soul shunted,
And it’s no one’s fault, and it’s nobody’s fault but mine.

How can I fall out of love?
How can I move my affections elsewhere?
Perhaps Mr. Speaker would make that his agenda,
If he wanted to know what I really cared for.

She’s in conversation now, it suits her,
She’s breaking a vow and taking a drag.
I’ve no place to be a voyeur or accomplice,
Just write me out of this time and this place.

I’m dancing with Mr. Speaker.
I’ve always been dancing to avoid the plague.
But now I’m just dancing for today,
For today to end.

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from Hoard, released January 7, 2015

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Toby Jackson is a singer-songwriter in York, but also Cambridge.

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