《Take Your Partner By The Hand》歌词

[00:00:00] Take Your Partner By The Hand - Robbie Robertson

[00:00:12] She walks alone down a sleazy backstreet

[00:00:15] Around a corner up an alley to a dead end

[00:00:19] There under a small blue light

[00:00:22] She enters an unmarked doorway

[00:00:25] A low heartbeat a low pounding escapes into the night

[00:00:33] This is a place she goes to fulfill a very basic need

[00:00:37] Something people have been doing since the dawn of man

[00:00:42] To communicate without talking

[00:00:45] If she needs something

[00:00:46] She makes a gesture with her hand

[00:00:49] And mouths what she wants

[00:00:53] She wants to make a connection

[00:00:57] A certain kind of connection

[00:01:00] No this is not about something from the black market

[00:01:04] This is about no questions

[00:01:08] This is about smoke and sweat and beats

[00:01:13] This is about no message

[00:01:17] Take your partner by the hand

[00:01:23] He's a woman she's a man

[00:01:28] What's so hard to understand

[00:01:34] Take your partner by the hand

[00:01:39] Mona in the promised land

[00:01:45] Take your partner by the hand

[00:01:50] Keep it simple if you can

[00:01:56] Take your partner by the hand

[00:03:03] At the club they circle around some sex goddess like vultures

[00:03:08] Flashbulbs popping

[00:03:10] Like bees around their queen

[00:03:13] She is completely indifferent to all the commotion

[00:03:17] And orders some mango tango ice cream by sign language

[00:03:23] She's approached by some wild eyed poet drunk with love

[00:03:28] I like her easy refusal the way she shakes her head

[00:03:35] She lives these days in the attic of an old dance hall

[00:03:39] That's been shut down for years

[00:03:41] And swears there's times when she can hear feet shuffling below

[00:03:46] And can see the shadows swaying moving to the music

[00:03:52] Take your partner by the hand

[00:03:58] He's a woman she's a man

[00:04:03] What's so hard to understand

[00:04:09] Take your partner by the hand

[00:04:15] Elevator going up

[00:04:17] Fifth floor

[00:04:19] Lady's handbags shoes leather accessories and electronics

[00:04:27] Wait a minute where am I on this elevator to nowhere

[00:04:33] Going up

[00:04:36] Going down

[00:04:39] Then like a hallucination

[00:04:41] I saw her out of the corner of my eye

[00:04:43] Studying some shoes very carefully

[00:04:48] She definitely had a particular purpose for these shoes in mind

[00:04:53] Then as quickly as she appeared she disappeared

[00:04:56] Back into the slash and burn of New York

[00:05:01] Ah stuck in traffic

[00:05:04] Crosstown the stress of not moving

[00:05:10] She described it as like being locked in a car

[00:05:14] With a madman behind the wheel

[00:05:17] And the radio tuned to static

[00:05:21] Take your partner by the hand

[00:05:26] He's a woman she's a man

[00:05:32] What's so hard to understand

[00:05:37] Take your partner by the hand

[00:05:43] Mona in the promised land

[00:05:48] Take your partner by the hand

[00:05:54] Keep it simple if you can

[00:05:59] Take your partner by the hand

[00:06:05] Take your partner by the hand

[00:06:11] Take your partner by the hand