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Pass Notes - A track by track discussion of Battlefield Dance Floor

“1. Lost”

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►► LOST lyrics ◄◄ 
Sad reports from coastal stations 
No word of my last known location 
Call out the boats send up the flares 
Let me know someone’s there 
Dark clouds gather pressure falling 
Loved ones friends and family calling 
Headland swept by harbour lights 
And out there somewhere in the night 

I am lost I am lost 
Far off course I have been blown 
Haul me in love guide me home 

At morning one last search is mounted 
The mooring empty still unaccounted 
Wreckage where a man should be 
Another sailor is all at sea 

I am lost I am lost 
How can I outrun this storm 
That filled the day that I was born 

I am lost I am lost 
On troubled water I am cast 
Haul me in love hold me fast 

The flag is furled and the race is run 
And I’ll be setting with the sun 
Beyond radar and off the chart 
I lie with the dragons of my heart 

Where are you? 
Where are you? 
Where are you? 

And when you’re certain I am there 
Approach with caution draw near with care 
And if you fear I’ll drag you down 
Turn away love watch me drown 
I am lost I am lost 
Another man is overboard 
Turn your back love head for shore 

I am lost I am lost 
Far off course I have been blown 
Reach out for me and guide me home 

Where are you? 
Where are you? 
Where are you?

“2. Battlefield Dance Floor”

►► BATTLEFIELD DANCE FLOOR lyrics ◄◄

On the eve of Agincourt
The King is in the camp
Walking incognito through the rain and through the damp
Soldiers round the camp-fire singing dirty songs
Passing out the ale and even Henry sings along

Get ’em up 1234
Kicking at the dark’s what your hands and feet are for
Set ’em up 1234
Tomorrow is a battlefield tonight it is a dance floor

Drake and all his mates are playing bowls out on the Hoe
Medina in the distance has a hundred miles to go
Finish off the game let’s wander into town
Light the f*****g beacon lets buy another round

Set ’em up 1234
Kicking at the dark’s what your hands and feet are for
Set ’em up 1234
Tomorrow is a battlefield tonight it is a dance floor

Wellington in Brussels on the eve of Waterloo
Dancing with the ladies like a gentleman should do
Napoleon in the distance thirty miles away
Knocking back the brandy ‘til the very break of day

Get ’em up 1234
Kicking at the dark’s what your hands and feet are for
Set ’em up 1234
Tomorrow is a battlefield tonight it is a dance floor

A ballet not a battle
It’s a salsa not a siege
A zumba not a rumble
Or a rumba in the breach
A mambo not a mortar
It’s a tango not a sword
Tomorrow is a battlefield
Tonight it is a dance floor

Churchill Bradley Monty and the rest
Its D-Day in the morning and they’re drinking with the best
Brandy cigars and a lot of pretty girls
Tonight we’re gonna party and tomorrow save the world

Get ’em up 1234
Kicking at the dark’s what your hands and feet are for
Set ’em up 1234
Tomorrow is a battlefield tonight it is a dance floor

“3. Just Enough To Lose”

►► JUST ENOUGH TO LOSE lyrics ◄◄

It was just between the sowing and the reaping
That you told me our crop was bound to fail
And it was never a harvest you were seeking
You loved the growing and the tending
Much more than the ending
With the labour that the gathering-in entailed

You left me just enough to lose
But not enough to thrive
So little I could use
To keep our love alive
Your heart you only lent
But if I had to choose
I’d settle in the end
For just enough
Just enough to lose

On the silver screen the title was still rolling
And I’m the leading man learning my best lines
By the second scene the action wasn’t flowing
I just failed to make my mark
So you left me in the dark
Where your shadow and the credits both entwined

You left me just enough to lose
But not enough to thrive
So little I could use
To keep our love alive
Your heart you only lent
But if I had to choose
I’d settle in the end
For just enough

Just above the bread-line just below the easy life
My father kept the family from the street
Now in my old man’s shoes
I will freely choose
To roll with the rough and smooth
Just enough

The maestro the conductor and the tyrant
Baton raised I look up from my score
And in my hands the orchestra falls silent
But you left before the curtain call
Your final note the dying fall
Alone upon the empty stage once more

You left me just enough to lose
But not enough to thrive
So little I could use
To keep our love alive
Your heart you only lent
But if I had to choose
I’d settle in the end
For just enough
Just enough to lose

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