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She walks alone down a sleazy backstreet
Around a corner and up an alley to a dead end
There under a small blue light
She enters an unmarked doorway
A low heart beat
A low pounding
Escapes into the night
This is a place she goes to fulfill a very basic need
Something people have been doing since the dawn of man
To communicate without talking
If she needs something
She makes a gesture with her hand
And mouths what she wants
She wants to make a connection
A certain kind of connection
No this is not about something from the black market
This is about no questions
This is about smoke and sweat and beats
This is about no message
Take your partner by the hand
He's a woman
She's a man
What's so hard to understand?
Take your partner by the hand
Loner in the promised land
Take your partner by the hand
Keep it simple if you can
Take your partner by the hand
At the club they circle around some sex goddess like vultures
Flash bulbs popping like bees around their queen
She is completely indifferent to all the commotion
And orders some mango tango ice cream
By sign language
She is approached by some wild eyed poet drunk with love
I like her easy refusal
The way she shakes her head
She lives these days in the attic of an old dance hall
That's been shut down for years
And swears there's times when she can hear feet shuffle from the hall
And can see the shadows swaying and moving to the music
Take your partner by the hand
He's a woman
She's a man
What's so hard to understand?
Take your partner by the hand
Elevator going up
Fifth floor
Ladies handbags, shoes, leather accessories and electronics
Wait a minute where am I?
On this elevator to nowhere
Going up
Going down
Then like a hallucination
I saw her out of the corner of my eye
Studying some shoes very carefully
She definitely had a particular purpose for these shoes in mind
Then as quickly as she appeared
She disappeared back into the slash and burn of New York
Ah stuck in traffic
Cross town
The stress of not moving
She described it as like being locked in a car
With a mad man behind the wheel
And the radio tuned to static
Take your partner by the hand
He's a woman
She's a man
What's so hard to understand?
Take your partner by the hand
Loner in the promised land
Take your partner by the hand
Keep it simple if you can
Take your partner by the hand
Take your partner by the hand
Take your partner by the hand