from "Cabin Fever", 1978, Arista Records





See her standing in the doorway

looking like a fallen star

Smiling like an outcast angel

taking everything a bit too far...



(CHORUS:)

Baby if you wanna dance

Baby if you wanna dance

You gotta pay the band

Baby if you wanna dance

Baby if you wanna dance

You gotta pay the band...



Some get older, some get wiser,

some go under and some get by

And, baby, your tricks worked so much

better when you were younger,

way back when, girl, before you

forgot how to cry...





(CHORUS)



(BRIDGE:)



And, baby, though I've been preaching

I ain't above reaching for you, girl

'cause I know how lonely it gets

in the rock-n-roll wars...



(CHORUS)









--words & music by Michael Stanley