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We met on a dance floor. We were both there to learn to swing. And after sweatin' through a few short hours we started to share all kinds of things.
We were both fresh in the middle of the kind of change that rearranges your life and heart. We didn't know where we were going but we were both ready to start.
And when our hands touched and you looked me in the face,it felt like we were on this fast train whippin' cross a vast landscape.
And my brain said: "Step back and take a deep breath." But my eyes said: "Let's just look a little more."
And that train it just kept a'rollin' and your shoulder was this vast landscape I was aching to explore and explore and explore.
And somewhere there's a most peculiar planet whirling round an incomprehensible sun where aliens encounter strange love and maybe that planet is this one we're on.
Errrrrrrrrrk . . ..
And maybe that planet is this one we're on.
And the next time we went dancin' it was a cover band and they rocked us through the decades of our lives.
And we were jumpin', we were pumpin', we were humpin', up and down with an R E S P E C T shout and all these smile.
And after the dance was over, we kept dancin' in the car and on the couch and it was the middle of the night and we were doin' all these new moves the elbow, the ear, the eye, the nose, the mouth, oh, your sweet mouth . . .
And it wasn't but a day or so later as I was bangin' out the chords to this song that I finally stepped back to take that deep breath and then choke it back with a sob.
We met on a dance floor. We were both there to learn to swing. And after sweatin' through a few short hours we started to share all kinds of things.
We were both fresh in the middle of the kind of change that rearranges your life and heart.
We didn't know where we were going but we were both ready to start.
And somewhere there's a most peculiar planet
whirling round an incomprehensible sun where aliens encounter a strange true love and maybe that planet is this one that we're on.

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from Streetlight and Colorado (& Bonus Live Tracks), released October 7, 2015

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Gray Cox Bar Harbor, Maine

Gray is a singer/songwriter who plays bones and guitar. He is a parent, grandparent, Quaker and philosopher. He teaches at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine is a co-founder of the Quaker Institute for the Future, and works on issues of peace and human ecology. His blog, combining music and social commentary is at breathonthewater.com. ... more

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