NO DANCING Elvis Costello Oh I kmow 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. There’s gonna be no dancing no There’s gonna be no dancing There’s gonna be no dancing when they get home.   Now he’s telling her ev’ry little thing he’s done. Once he glanced at the jackets of some paperbacks. Now he’s read ev’ry one. He’s such a drag.  He’s not insane. It’s just that ev’rybody has to feel his pain. There’s gonna be no dancing when they get home. 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.            Tacit If he says no dancing there’s gonna be no dancing There’s gonna be no dancing on my own. She can’t even speak to him.  He can’t face her now. He says "Even though I wanna shake your hand All I ever do is bow. So now you see how it can be. Why can’t you give me ev’rything but sympathy? 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 There’s gonna be no dancing on my own.