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Dancing Shoes Lyrics

Get on your dancing shoes
There's one thing on your mind
Hoping they’re looking for you
Sure you'll be rummaging' through

And the shit, shock, horror
You've seen your future bride
Oh, but it's oh so absurd
For you to say the first word
So you're waiting and waiting

The only reason that you came
So what you scared for?
don't you always do the same
It's what you there for, don't you know

…the lights are flashing
Down in here tonight
And some might exchange a glance
But keep pretending to dance

Don't act like it's not happening
As if it’s impolite
To go and mention your name
Instead you'll just do the same
As they all do, and hope for the best...

The only reason that you came
So what you scared for?
Well don't you always do the same
It's what you’re there for but no

Get on your dancing shoes
You sexy little swine
Hoping they’re looking for you
Sure you'll be rummaging through

Oh and the shit, shock, horror
You've seen your future bride
Oh, but it's oh so absurd
For you to say the first word
So you're waiting and waiting
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no commets yet? damn. This is a great song. I think it's about trying to pick up girls at dance clubs and finding it hard to make the first move. By the way the "oooo yaaa" part actually says "but nooo!" even though it's there it's hard to make out on the first version but it's clear on the new album version. and the waaaaaaaaohhh is waitin' also.

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sorry fallen angels: "The only reason that you came So what ya scared for? " is ALL about how you went out clubbing to pick up and take home... but this guy's not got the balls to approach and make the first move...

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luv the song. luv the band. i think its just talking about how this guy has gone out to meet girls but is too scared to go and talk to anyone. hence the line "the only reason that you came so what you scared for?" i luv it so much.

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great song

some guys out on the pull and he's seen a girl he likes but he's too scared to make a move cause he feels stupidto "say the first word" so he just pretends like he hasn't noticed and carries on dancing and "hopes for the best"

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phantasmalkitty 's right, the word swine isn't really a word you would tell to the person you love (your future bride).Swine is more like bastard , son of a bitch, cocksucker and not a love word...

"You sexy little swine Hoping they’re looking for you Sure you'll be rummaging through" -->well I don't think that's positive...It's maybe about peolpe who just want to get laid end bag some nice girls

im sorry it's quite incomplete i'll think about this song (an awsome song really ), try to undersantd and write if i find some intresting results

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FIRST VERSE;"Get on your dancing shoes/There's one thing on your mind/Hoping they're looking for you/Sure you'll be rummaging through" This verve is basically saying let me get on the dancefloor, I've got someONE on my mind and I hope that someONE is doing the same thing for me, I'll be looking for them SECOND VERSE;"Oh and the shit, shock, the horror/You've seen your future bride/Yeah, but it's oh so absurd/For you to say the first word/So you're waiting and waiting and" He's saying that he's just seen the someone he was looking for and he thinks they could be his bride, he thinks he's weird to say the first word so he waits THIRD VERSE;"The only reason that you came/So what you scared for/Oh, don't you always do the same/It's what you there for, don't you know" she's the only reason he went to the pub or club, he doesn't know why he was scared as he preparing for it earlier, she starts to doubt himself as he 'always do the same' FOURTH VERSE; "The lights are flashing/Down in here tonight/And some might exchange a glance/But keep pretending to dance" the lights in the pub or club are flashing and he keeps making the glance the girl, but he keeps pretending to dance on the dancefloor FIFTH VERSE;"Don't act like it's not happening/As if it's impolite/To go and mention your name/Instead you'll just do the same/As they all do, and hope for the best"he's telling himself to not act like they arn't glacing at each other, 'as if it's impolite', he's hoping to go up to the girl and introduce himself as that's what 'they all do and hope for the best' SIXTH VERSE; same as the third SEVENTH VERSE;"Get on your dancing shoes/You sexy little swine/Hoping they're looking for you/Sure you'll be rummaging through" He's hoping that she goes on the dancefloor and starts to look for him EIGHT VERSE;same as the second

I love this song, I don't know the real meaning but because I've grew up in England I'm going off what would usually happen in a club

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Cover art for Dancing Shoes lyrics by Arctic Monkeys

Yeah, this song is great, and the one on the cd isn't even the best one.. 'the unofficial'- downloadable one sounds better, that's what i think! And yeah it's, i think, aboiut you like a girl and really love her but you can't ask her, cause you're too freightened and don't know what to say. 'you seen your future bride', well that explains the most of the song I guess.

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I love the 'Get on your dancing shoes, u sexy little swine!' A fave line of me and the flatmates! This band rock my sox!!!

Cover art for Dancing Shoes lyrics by Arctic Monkeys

A few of the lyrics are wrong up top. Proper ones are on www.arcticmonkeys.com/lyrics.htm.

Cover art for Dancing Shoes lyrics by Arctic Monkeys

Possibly the best song on the album. Album is better than i expected. But they are over-hyped. Can't see how they can progress without a new direction.

And why ain't "Bigger Boys..." on the album? It's better than half of the songs on it.

hate to disagree with ya Kelly Jones, but every single song by the Arctic Monkeys is amazing...and they are not over-hyped! They are famous, amazing, and have amazing accents...They have every right to be hype!

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Ye im whitcha der , they managed to create an even better album using a similar sound , and in my opinion was a better album too . Humbug is the new direction your on about and i think it ws not the right choice

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