![(Something About) Ysabel's Dance - Peter Hammill](https://cdn.muztext.com/i/3284751589443925347.jpg)
Date of issue: 11.10.2010
Record label: Floating World
Song language: English
(Something About) Ysabel's Dance |
In the new hotel, on Fiesta Night, the staff are bored; |
Donna Ysabel dances zombie-like, the guests applaud… |
The color is local, the tourists are tanned |
The natives are restless and everything’s second-hand |
Places disappear, but the names endure as alibis; |
Memory’s hazy here, no-one's really sure of how time flies… |
Well drunk, the bass player cries into his beer — |
Are Ysabel’s mother or Ysabel dancing here? |
After hours all the couriers are in the bar |
Round the corner with the drivers in a game of cards… |
In bursts Ysabel, her hair let loose, her limbs set free; |
On the tabletops she’s dancing to a memory — |
Conversation stops and every eye is turned to see… |
Something about Ysabel’s dance |
It’s a shrinking world, it’s a fun-packed cruise, a museum trip: |
Skirt the native girl, check the rabid dog, rejoin the ship |
There’s no Charlie Mingus, his Tijuana’s gone… |
This smile for the camera is all just a tourist con |
But after hours all the couriers and drivers know |
Of a cantina where there’s every chance that she might show; |
And maybe Ysabel will dance the dance for real again |
Her mother’s footsteps, vice and virtue, lust and love and pain |
There’s something here the anthropologist dare not explain |
Something about Ysabel’s dance… |
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Airport | 2005 |
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Open Your Eyes | 2005 |
People You Were Going To | 2005 |
Mirror Images | 2005 |
The Institute Of Mental Health, Burning | 2005 |
Pompeii | 2005 |
The Birds | 1970 |
Nadir's Big Chance | 1992 |
Been Alone So Long | 1992 |
The Lie (Bernini's Saint Theresa) | 2005 |
Red Shift | 2005 |
Time Heals | 2005 |
A Way Out | 2009 |
Rubicon | 2005 |
A Louse Is Not A Home | 2005 |
(No More) The Sub Mariner | 1973 |
Faint Heart And The Sermon | 2005 |
Again | 1973 |
Wilhelmina | 1992 |