We came to dance

Making moves from a passion play

The ties that bind us just slip away

We came to dance

The piper calls out a different rhyme

He cracks the whip and we step in time



Standing as the parade goes passing by

I hear a voice around me cry

Like the sound of distant drums

Rejected and alone

A heart without a home

And someone said



We came to dance

Making moves from a passion play

The ties that bind us just slip away

We came to dance

The piper calls out a different rhyme

He cracks the whip and we step in time



We came to dance



Waiting as the panic grips my hand

Hearing prose from high command

Like a million times before

No dignity or grace

It's the prize and not the race

And someone said



We came to dance

Making moves from a passion play

The ties that bind us just slip away

We came to dance

The piper calls out a different rhyme

He cracks the whip and we step in time



We came to dance



We came to dance

Making moves from a passion play

The ties that bind us just slip away

"Take what you can", they said

"Take it while you may.

But keep in mind the penalty fits the crime

And it deals no softened blow."



We came to dance

Making moves from a passion play

The ties that bind us just slip away

We came to dance

The piper calls out a different rhyme

He cracks the whip and we step in time