Last Dance

Last Dance (Smith/Orbit)

It was homecoming and I arrived alone
Couldn't drive then so instead I walked
When I got there then came the feeling
That I didn't belong and wanted to go home

Then a voice in my head said that you'll never know
There maybe someone there waiting just for you
So in a mist of it all those stares I decided to stay
But for how long till the end of the show

And then somebody said first chance for romance
Grab a sweetheart and get closer than this

Well you can't go out and dance by yourself
So I grabbed a drink and begin to look and see
Anybody there that didn't have a date
But it seemed to me there was no one to take

And then someone said 2nd chance for romance
Hold your honey it doesn't get any better than this

So tell me what I'm doing here
I should be somewhere where I can have fun
There's a girl there unattached
I could ask but I don't want to be turned down

It was midnight and time ran out on me
As I got ready to take the long walk home
And as I walk on the tracks back into town
Came the voice as it cut through the wind

Last dance last chance for romance
Grab your honey and kiss her goodnight

Maybe next time
Another night
I won't worry
I'll sleep at night

(C) 1995

In the early 90s, the songs I wrote were a diary of happenings long time ago.  Chance of love failed.  This particular number came during Homecoming 1977 when I arrived at the old Best Western a day early before the actual dance itself.  My mom dropped me off and I had these pointy toed dress up shoes. This song came upon previous dances when I showed up alone and too shy to ask anybody out.

Not one of the better TE songs, this was found like After You Go, in a pile of papers while cleaning out the hoarder house.  This did appeared on These Things Must Pass.