The Best Slow Dancer

Verse 1

Under the sagging clotheslines of crepe paper

By the second string of teachers and wallflowers

Mirrored light spun slow across the gym floor

Three-second rule forever in the glitter

Pre-Chorus

You danced with her the best slow dancer

She stood on tiptoe almost wasn't there

In your arms like music she knew the answer

To the question mark of your spine your hand in hers

Chorus

One slide two slide three slide now

Turning in time she knew where you were

Cheek against her temple her ear just under

All evening long you tried to tell her

Post-Chorus

Slide with me

Slide with me now

Oh-oh-oh

Verse 2

The other hand on that place between her shoulders

Trembling your countless feet lightfooted sure

From thigh to secrets to breast yet never closer

Than her body turning into yours

Pre-Chorus

Not the worst one not the boy whose mother

Taught him to count to murmur over and over

Not the hallway scuffler the mouth breather

With the wrong haircut who would never kiss her

Chorus

One slide two slide three slide now

Turning in time she knew where you were

Cheek against her temple her ear just under

All evening long you tried to tell her

Post-Chorus

Slide with me

Slide with me now

Oh-oh-oh

Bridge

But see her dancing off with someone or other

Older more clever smoother dreamier

Not waving a sister somebody else's partner

Lover while you float home through the air

Chorus

One slide two slide three slide now

Turning in time she knew where you were

Cheek against her temple her ear just under

All evening long you tried to tell her

Post-Chorus

Slide with me

Slide with me now

Oh-oh-oh

Outro

Lighter than air in a moonlit shimmer

Whisper yourself to sleep

Remember