Voglio vederti dancare

I want to see you dance
Like the desert gypsies
With candelabras on your head
Or like the Balinese on festive days
I want to see you dance
Like the whirling dervishes
Spinning on their spinal cords
To the sound of ankle bells of the katakali
And the room spins all around
While we dance, dance
And the whole room spins
While we dance.
And Radio Tirana broadcasts
Balkan music, while
Bulgarian dancers
Barefoot on burning coals
In Northern Ireland
In summer dance halls
Elderly couples dancing
To the rhythm of seven eighths.
The room spins all around
While we dance, dance
And the whole room spins
While we dance. In the obsessive rhythms the key to tribal rites
Realms of shamans
And rebellious gypsy musicians
In the Po Valley
In summer dance halls
Elderly couples dancing
Old Viennese waltzes.