I want to see you dance (Battiato Inspired) - AMDPP

I want to see you dance Like the gypsies of the desert With candelabras on their heads Or like the Balinese on days of celebration I want to see you dance Like the whirling dervishes who spin On their spines Or to the sound of Kathakali anklets Like the Sherden fighting with round shields Or Melesigene leaving Tyrrhenia, sailing south to Ithaca While Medea on the boat with Jason Stares ahead at the sight of land And everything turns around the room while we dance, dance And everything turns around the room while we dance And Radio Tirana broadcasts Balkan music while Bulgarian dancers Barefoot on burning braziers In Northern Ireland In summer dance halls Elderly couples dancing To a seven-eight rhythm Among OCB organic filters And dead chestnut leaves ready to be burnt Watching a policewoman who coldly treats Her very own brother as a criminal And everything turns around the room while we dance And everything turns around the room while we dance And Radio Tirana broadcasts Balkan music while Bulgarian dancers Barefoot on burning braziers In Northern Ireland In summer dance halls Elderly couples dancing To a seven-eight rhythm Among OCB organic filters And dead chestnut leaves ready to be burnt Watching a policewoman who coldly treats Her very own brother as a criminal And everything turns around the room while we dance, dance And everything turns around the room while we dance In the obsessive rhythms the key Of tribal rites Realms of shamans And rebel gypsy musicians In the lower Po Valley In summer dance halls Elderly couples dancing Old Viennese waltzes