Knows the Steps

[Verse 1: Full-throated arena-R&B male lead, big voice over huge live drums and piano chords] Brown suit pressed and the same red tie Friday at the union hall, seven-thirty sky She asks the nurse who the gentleman is I say a friend of the family, and I fix her a kiss On the cheek where she lets me, she calls me sir I been sir for a year, and I'm still hers Forty-one years since she cut on my date Took my hand from a girl, said it's me, don't wait House band setting up, Rosa checking the mic Waves at us both like it's any old night I pull out her chair and she thanks me twice Says her husband's a dancer, and her husband is nice [Hook: Full-throated arena-R&B male lead, Rosa the band singer, female vocalist, singing the hook with him, huge live drums] She don't know my name but she knows the steps Every turn that we took, every dip, every breath I been losing her slow but I'm holding her yet She don't know my name but she knows the steps [Verse 2: Full-throated arena-R&B male lead, harder, drums driving] Band kicks into our song and her shoulders go back She stands before I do, takes my hand like a fact Then she leads me, she leads, like the night that we met Every count in her heels, every eight that she kept Left on the four and the spin on the eight Little dip at the bridge that she did on our date People stop at their tables, Rosa leans to the band Says play it again, look at Dolores and her man I'm a stranger she dances with better than most And I'm crying in rhythm, I'm holding her close She don't know who I am but her body believes And I'll take what she gives, I'll take all that she leaves [Hook: Full-throated arena-R&B male lead, Rosa the band singer, female vocalist, singing the hook with him, huge live drums] She don't know my name but she knows the steps Every turn that we took, every dip, every breath I been losing her slow but I'm holding her yet She don't know my name but she knows the steps [Bridge: Full-throated arena-R&B male lead, full voice, piano chords pounding with the drums] Song comes down and she smiles at my face Says you dance like my husband, he's got the same grace I say I know, I say I know He taught me everything, and he'd want you to go Again, one more, Rosa count it in loud Forty-one years on the floor of this crowd [Final Hook: Full-throated arena-R&B male lead, rosa sings over him from the stage, female vocalist, two big voices stacked, raw full voice] She don't know my name but she knows the steps Every turn that we took, every dip, every breath I been losing her slow but I'm holding her yet She don't know my name but she knows the steps [End]