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Dancing Alone

Scoobert Doobert · single Dancing Alone · 2024

Pre-weekend waiting song: dinner for two, playlist they sent, Kool and the Gang as stand-in: dancing alone until you come through.

Listen: Apple Music

ISRC QZMER2460808 (soundexchange)

Standalone single (July 12, 2024 · Beformer), not on I or any LP tracklist. Same summer-2024 relational lane as chasing the sunset and CHEW ON THIS: love measured in waiting, windows, and phones.

It’s an apartment tableau, traffic flowing past, eyes scanning for your car, a homemade dinner for two that’s really for one. The chorus is joy and ache at once, dancing all night long since I met ya but wanting to pull ya through the phone, with Kool and the Gang standing in as surrogate dance partner.

The plea underneath the party is the whole song: don’t leave me dancing alone, stacked at the outro until loneliness and motion become the same thing.

See also: I · Catalog.


Written, performed, and mixed by Luke Francis Walton.

Lyrics
Hmm hmm hmm
Don't leave me dancing alone
Looking out my apartment window
Seeing the city traffic flowing by, yeah
I am looking out for your car
Wonder where you are
My homemade dinner for two
Here waiting for you
Waiting for you
I'm waiting for you

Ooo ah ooo ah ooo ah
Ever since I met ya
I've been dancing all night long
Ooo ah ooo ah ooo ah
Oh hearing your voice
I wanna pull ya through the phone
I keep dancing alone
Don't leave me dancing alone
Ooo I keep dancing alone
Don't leave me dancing alone

Hmm hmm hmm
Playing the playlist that you sent me
Thinking of every memory we will make
A good time to celebrate, c'mon
Kool and the Gang keeping me company
But I wish that you were next to me
Next to me
Ooo I wish that you were dancing next to me

Waiting for the weekend
Feeling butterflies
Yeah come through
Cause I can hardly wait another minute
Without you

Ooo ah ooo ah ooo ah
Ever since I met ya
I've been dancing all night long
Ooo ah ooo ah ooo ah
Oh hearing your voice
I wanna pull ya through the phone oh
Ooo ah ooo ah ooo ah
Ever since I met ya
I've been dancing all night long
(Don't leave me dancing alone)
Ooo ah ooo ah ooo ah
Oh hearing your voice
I wanna pull ya through the phone
(Don't leave me dancing alone)

Dancing dancing
Dancing dancing dancing
Dancing alone
Don't leave me
Don't leave me
Don't leave me dancing alone
Dancing dancing
Dancing dancing dancing
Dancing alone
I'm dancing alone
Don't leave me dancing alone

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