This isn't at all unpleasant, I'm enchanted

By the lavish ballet and I'll whistle the tune

All the way to the gallows that I heard at the cabaret

At the sheriff's signal, the orchestra moves the floor

Don't it make you feel wonderful?

Body twisting, strictly ballroom

Criminally elegant, ideal pastured Viennese waltzer

I'm dressed to kill, I'm weightless and well rehearsed

In my godless opera, my character is canonized

Unhand me, this is a musical and nothing goes wrong

Can't keep the classics out of the head of the masochists

Strike up the band, strike up the band

It's 245 beats for a measure

Or 5 beats per 6 steps on alternating feet

The show must go on, never mind the teeth and the fingernails

The show must go on, I don't feel at all like I thought I would

But I could probably go on like this forever

Tonight, we dance, for tomorrow they release the dogs

Tonight, we dance, for tomorrow they release the dogs

Tonight, we dance, for tomorrow they release the dogs

1, 2, 3

1, 2, 3

Keep it up

1, 2, 3

Savor it, savor it, savor it, savor it

Savor it, savor it, savor it, savor it

Savor it, savor it, savor it, savor it

Savor it, savor it, everything vanishes