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The Machine Starts To Sing
Don’t Want to Dance

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Don’t Want to Dance

Release date: 15th January 2025

From The Machine Starts To Sing

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"Don’t Want to Dance" is a track by Porridge Radio, from the album The Machine Starts To Sing, released 15th January 2025. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 11 articles about Porridge Radio.

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Lyrics

Don’t Want to Dance

It's too late to try, but I'm not done trying

I'm not ready to stop loving you yet

And I don't want to dance, but I keep dancing anyway

Trying to get it all to slip away

No, I don't want to dance, but I don't want to talk about it

And somehow it keeps it all away

So I'll stand right in the centre of it, feel it open up my body

Louder than what I think I can take

[Instrumental Break]

No, I don't want to dance, but I don't want to cry about it

I think I've taken all that I can take

And I don't want to think because I don't want to think about it

I can't sleep, can't sleep without it, trying not to fall to pieces

You, you are the moon to me, the sky is brightly curing me

Soft movements of a soft body, the power you hold over me

No need to talk about it

No need to cry about it

Like dust, it all just blows away

No need to talk about it

No need to cry about it

Like dust, it all just blows away

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From The Machine Starts To Sing

2025

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21st February 2025

Release year

2025

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