How I wish I'd called you up
Just to hear you breathe
The sound of seretonin
Makes it hard for me to sleep
I need to ask you questions
Like would you want to dance?
There's demons in her mind
And they scream when it's too bright
We're animals in costume
Tonight we're dressed in white
I need to get the words out
Like poetry ain't dead yet
It ain't dead yet
I wanna take you dancing
I wanna paint the street
Take my lungs if you need to breathe
Take my heart if you need a beat
I wanna take you dancing
Like on a silver screen
Still young
We were born into a TV dream
How I wish I called your name out
But I couldn't see your eyes
The audience aren't watching
Cause tonight we're in disguise
The world don't know her name yet
And the world don't know her face
She slips away
I wanna take you dancing
I wanna paint the street
Take my lungs if you need to breathe
Take my heart if you need a beat
I wanna take you dancing
Like on a silver screen
Still young
We were born into a TV dream
When the world has lost its mind
With plastic love
With space and time
Will boys and girls
Still play the same?
The news will say we'll all be fine
I don't believe what I'm seeing on the TV screen
I can't believe what I'm hearing it makes no sense to me
Don't need no excuses like "Why'd you have to dress like that?"
If you could take it back
Would you take it back?
I wanna take you dancing
I wanna paint the streets
Take my lungs if you need to breathe
Take my heart if you need a beat
I wanna take you dancing
Like on a silver screen
Still young
We were born into a TV dream