a_chance_to_dance Dafremen So I dance for you, my brothers and sisters Hoping, in my secret heart of hearts That in your silent unseeing You too are dancing with me and through me That the ecstacy which fills my heart in this moment Is your ecstacy as well. It is my most sincere and sacred wish To have somehow done justice to this gift This glorious blessing, this chance to revel In our combined majesty. Oh thank you! Thank you so much! How can I express my gratitude enough? How can my appreciation be felt? Is it felt my beloved ones? Is there a way that here in life, in this incredible sense of being I can let all of you know how much it means to me to be alive? How truly humbled I am by your sacrifice? By the patient waiting for your turn to come? Is there a way that the humility of a self-centered speck of dust come aware Can proclaim its arrival generously enough? The thought of your selflessness and the glory of what together we are Shakes the very foundations of my vain existence. Foolishness are all of my achievments in comparison Paltry are all of my honors and accolades Meaningless are a lifetime of acts When compared to this simple act of joyful expression. For mere words cannot express my gratitude Not nearly as well as the raw expression of my emotion And so I dance..for you my brothers In the hope that someday it will be YOU who dances And I who looks on, silent and unseeing Playing my part in creating your happiness In making of your chance to be The glorious paradise that you have made of mine. 021020 ... tom waits well it's so hard to dance that way, when it's cold and there's no music playing. with your own hometown so far away, but inside your head there's a record playing, a song called hold on, hold on, yeah you gotta hold on. 021020 what's it to you? who go blather from