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Twelfth Night - Three Dancers

from PROG sampler by Twelfth Night - Friends & Family

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From the original 1981 album 'Smiling At Grief'.
A remix by Steven Wilson appears on the 40th anniversary LP release 'Smiling At Grief - Revisited'.

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raise one leg
dream of death
obliterate your sex
holding breath

this is a memory
this is a trance
it is the middle
of a broken last chance

it isn't movement
it isn't free
it is a moment
deep in you and me

dance... dance... dance...
dance... dance... dance
dancing in a midday, apparently frozen stance
caught up in a nihilistic dance, dance, dance

a single eye
stares from a face
with all the emptiness
of limitless space

without action
without motion
entombed in the oil
of one man's emotion

never casual
more than a glance
where the truth for a change
has been paid in advance

dance... dance... dance...
dance... dance... dance
dancing in a midday, apparently frozen stance
caught up in a nihilistic dance, dance, dance

dance... dance... dance...
dance... dance... dance
dancing in a midday, apparently frozen stance
caught up in a nihilistic dance, dance, dance

and the window being open
shows the sky far away
but the balustrade keeps us locked in
to make us dance all day

credits

from PROG sampler, released April 5, 2023
Rick Battersby: keyboards, Brian Devoil: drums, percussion, Geoff Mann: vocals, Clive Mitten: bass, Andy Revell: guitar

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Twelfth Night UK

Twelfth Night are an English progressive rock band of the 1980s, reformed between 2007 and 2012 and again in 2014.

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