An Innocent Fiction

Midnight confessions

Of deputy Prussians

Coloured my time in the Rhine

Where a misplaced directive

From a dirty connector

I got out just in time



Fleet of foot messengers

Tapped me in Bucharest

And paid for a train to Berlin

Where a night club at midnight

Was cleared out too quickly

I made my face in the wings



The palace ain't nothing

Compared to this majesty

Here I am dancin'

For the president of Germany



I opened up with a

Rag and a one-step and

Finished the bit with a freeze

Then a touch of the shuffle and

I closed with a soft-shoe

I hit 'em with my best routine



The palace ain't nothing

Compared to this majesty

Here I am dancin' for

The president of Germany

The orpheum never saw

A bigger hit in two a day

The national can't beat this state



Oooooh, oooooh

Don't fade out

You're my only hope and it's running out



The spotlight it shone on heavy artillery

The silence was worse than the shot

I'm just a dancer, an innocent fiction

More like a dream than not



Applause cascading from one set of fingertips

You believe what you believe

You believe what you believe

You believe what you believe

You believe what you believe



Midnight confessions

Of deputy Prussians

I got out just in time