Oh I know that she
Has made a fool of him
Like girls have done so many nights before
Time and time again
Life is so strange

I don´t know why
But somebody, somebody has to cry
There´s gonna be no dancing when they get home
There´s gonna be no dancing
There´s gonna be no dancing
There´s gonna be no dancing when they get home

Now he´s telling her
Every little thing he´s done
Once he glanced at the jackets of some paperbacks
Now he´s read every one
He´s such a drag
He´s not insane
It´s just that everybody
Has to feel his pain
There´s gonna be no dancing when they get home

He´s getting down on his knees

He finds that the girl is not so easy to please
Oh oh, after all, his nights were just a paper striptease
She´s caught it like some disease

If he says no dancing
There´s gonna be no dancing
There´s gonna be no dancing on my own

She can´t even speak to him
He can´t face her now
He says "Even though I wanna shake your hand
All I ever do is bow.
So now you see
How can it be.
Why can´t you give me anythin´ but sympathy?"

There´s gonna be no dancing

There´s gonna be no dancing
There´s gonna be no dancing
There´s gonna be no dancing
There´s gonna be no dancing on my own