We Taught it to Dance I

Intro

Nineteen eighty-three on a concrete floor

Cardboard classroom, no diploma, no door

Rewind it, replay it, copy the code

Teaching a body the robot's whole road

Verse 1

Boombox weighing heavy, shoulder going numb

Rewind the tape again till the pop-lock comes

Elbow locking, hinge of chrome and steel

Chest holds still while the wave starts to peel

Fourteen on a flattened box, learning the trade

Copying the video frame by frame by frame

Mirror on the wall throws a kid half machine

(half machine, half machine)

Half a future nobody's ever seen

Chorus

We taught it to dance, taught it to move

Gave it the hips, gave it the groove

Now it's dancing better than we ever could

We taught it to dance — wish we understood

Verse 2

Forty years later, same corner's a screen

Watch a render learning faster than I've ever been

Trained on the tape of a kid on cardboard

Nobody credited, nobody's floor

It spins the headspin with no strain in the neck

No thirty stitches, no sweat on the deck

Perfect where I was rough round the edge

The body it learned from — wasn't enough for the ledger

Chorus

We taught it to dance, taught it to move

Gave it the hips, gave it the groove

Now it's dancing better than we ever could

We taught it to dance — wish we understood

Bridge

Still got the shoes right down by the door

Still know the count, still feel the floor

Corner's gone quiet, nobody's watching tonight

Put 'em on anyway — that's the whole fight

It never needed a reason to move

I still do

Outro

Perfect ain't the point, never was the floor

The body remembers what the render's searching for

(searching for, searching for)

[Spoken] "Created by DiscoPrincess -- Royalty of the night"