DANCE WHILE WE CAN

[Dry percussion only] [Two bars] [Bass synth enters] [Verse 1] I spent so much time... Thinking about tomorrow... Tomorrow came... And I was somewhere else... Trying to fix... A world I couldn't carry... Forgot sometimes... I needed help... My mother looks... A little older... My friend's kid... Learned to say my name... I found a picture... From ten years ago... We thought... We had forever... Funny... How that changed... [Pre-Chorus] So turn it up... Not because... Nothing matters... Turn it up... Because it does... [808 DROP] [CHORUS] DANCE WHILE WE CAN... LOVE WHILE WE CAN... THE CLOCK DON'T STOP... FOR ANY WOMAN OR MAN... DANCE WHILE WE CAN... HOLD MY HAND... WE DON'T KNOW... HOW THIS ENDS... SO DANCE... WHILE WE CAN... [POST-CHORUS] Tonight... Tonight... Don't wait... For another life... Tonight... Tonight... We're still here... We're alive... [Verse 2] We keep saying... When things get better... When I make more... When I finally arrive... When the world... Stops being crazy... Then I'll call... Then I'll love... Then I'll live... But my friend... Life is happening... While you're making... Other plans... There's a woman... Dancing in her kitchen... There's a father... Holding his daughter's hands... There's somebody... Watching the sunrise... Who didn't think... They'd make it through the night... Maybe joy... Ain't closing your eyes... Maybe joy... Is choosing... To open them wide... [CHORUS] DANCE WHILE WE CAN... LOVE WHILE WE CAN... THE CLOCK DON'T STOP... FOR ANY WOMAN OR MAN... DANCE WHILE WE CAN... HOLD MY HAND... WE DON'T KNOW... HOW THIS ENDS... SO DANCE... WHILE WE CAN... [Beat Switch — Dark Latin Trap] [Huge sliding 808] I spent years trying to understand time... Like knowing what it is would make it mine. Read about empires. Read about stars. Read about money. Read about Mars. Still couldn't tell you why one summer night... With my friends in a parking lot... Felt more alive... Than half the things I worked my whole life to buy. Maybe that's wealth. Maybe I missed it. Maybe abundance ain't numbers and digits. Maybe it's time with somebody you love... And enough peace inside to know it's enough. [808 slide] I don't wanna die with a perfect résumé. I don't wanna wait for some future someday. I don't wanna spend every beautiful night... Reading about why the world ain't right. I know it ain't right. That's why we build. That's why we speak. That's why we care. But what are we building... If nobody... Wants to live there? [Beat cuts] [Soft synth] Maybe... The world doesn't need me... To carry it. [Pause] Maybe... It needs me... Alive. [Long build] [Percussion rises] [Synth arpeggio opens] [FALSE DROP] [Silence] [Singer] You still here? ... Then dance. [FINAL DROP — MASSIVE 808] [FINAL CHORUS] DANCE WHILE WE CAN... LOVE WHILE WE CAN... BUILD SOMETHING BETTER... WITH THESE TWO HANDS... DANCE WHILE WE CAN... STAND WHILE WE CAN... THE FUTURE AIN'T COMING... IT'S MADE... WHERE WE STAND... DANCE WHILE WE CAN... CRY WHEN WE NEED... LOVE SOMEBODY... PLANT A SEED... SING WHILE WE CAN... BUILD WHILE WE CAN... WE DON'T KNOW... HOW THIS ENDS... BUT WE GET... TO CHOOSE... HOW WE DANCE... [Instrumental Drop] [Processed guitar melody] [808s continue] [Final Post-Chorus] Tonight... Tonight... No perfect world... No perfect life... Tonight... Tonight... Still unfinished... Still alive... [Outro — drums and bass slowly disappear] I used to think... Hope was believing... Everything would be okay... Now I think... Maybe hope... Is knowing... It might not be... And building... And loving... And dancing... Anyway.