See her standing in the doorway
        looking like a fallen star
     Smiling like an outcast angel
        taking everything a bit too far...

(CHORUS:)
Baby if you wanna dance
Baby if you wanna dance
   You gotta pay the band
Baby if you wanna dance
Baby if you wanna dance
   You gotta pay the band...

     Some get older, some get wiser,
        some go under and some get by
     And, baby, your tricks worked so much
        better when you were younger,
     way back when, girl, before you
        forgot how to cry...


(CHORUS)

(BRIDGE:)

     And, baby, though I've been preaching
          I ain't above reaching for you, girl
     'cause I know how lonely it gets
          in the rock-n-roll wars...

(CHORUS)

--words & music by Michael Stanley