Oh I know 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    There's gonna be no dancing    There's gonna be no dancing when they get home       Now he's telling her    Every little thing he's done    Once he glanced at the jackets of some paperbacks    Now he's read every one    He's such a drag    He's not insane    It's just that everybody    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       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 can it be.    Why can't you give me anythin' 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 on my own