You Used To Love To Dance Lyrics & Chords By Melissa Etheridge

Lying in a city night
A million fingers
Tingling my skin
Out there in the sea tonight
I thought I saw you
Clutching your sin

You rolled me over long ago
And told me
You were strong enough to go
You needed more
Than this lover's dream
You need the steel
And the concrete beams in your life
In your life

Oh, we laughed and drank
In that jukebox light
And we tore the rug
In that downtown dive
Every Saturday night
Hey, for fifty cents
We'd dance all night long
And each new tune we said:
"That's our song"
Oh, it felt so right
Well, ecstasy ain't free
But compromise is chance
I remember how
You used to love to dance

They told me you have
Found your love
You moved in locked up
And put out your blues
Well, all God's children
Got to grow up
And play house, make vows
To hang up their shoes

Do you sit and talk over coffee cups
Do headline mornings satisfy
And fill you up
I kept your eyes
And your cigarette kiss
You couldn't keep the lies
The adrenalin bliss in your life
In your life

Oh, we laughed and drank
In that jukebox light
And we tore the rug
In that downtown dive
Every Saturday night
Yeah, for fifty cents
We'd dance all night long
And each new tune we said:
"That's our song"
Oh, it felt so right
Well, ecstasy ain't free
But compromise is chance
I remember how
You used to love to dance

Oh... I'm gonna go out tonight
I'm gonna drive up to the hill
Hey, I'm gonna dive on
Into those city lights
And I'm gonna dance, dance
Dance till I get my fill

We laughed and drank
In that jukebox light
Tore the rug
In that downtown dive
Every Saturday night
Yeah, for fifty cents
We'd dance all night long
And each new tune we swore:
"That's our song"
It felt so right
Well, I know, I know ecstasy ain't free
But compromise is chance
I remember how
You used to love to dance

You say:
"Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la, baby"
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Ah-ha, oh no
Oh, sha-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la, baby
Oh-ho, yeah, ho
Come on, come one, come
Dance
Come and sha-la-la
Sha-la-la
Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la