Dog Rose

When I step Conchita
Always senorita
Lived your life for dancing, now your legs have gone
Looking out your doorway
Toothless in the sunshine
Just a little magic will make you dance again

When you hear flamenco
Does it make your heart fire?
Can you feel a rhythm rushing through your veins?
Somewhere where a voice screams
Shaking up your soft dreams
What is there to live for now your legs have gone?

Pick yourself a dog rose
Put it in your grey hair
Fine a lonely courtyard and dance the sun away
You won't need to hear them
Clapping out the time there
There's no need for time now that your legs have gone

Look out at the children
They can feel the rhythm
They won't make you feel bad now your legs have gone
They don't see you dancing
When you were a young girl
They can't see the soldiers dying for your love

And how will you tell them
That your love was dancing?
They could never see that now your legs have gone
There was no more beauty
Than when you were dancing
Rigid in the moonlight with thunder in your hands

Just another woman
Peering through the sunlight
Hands and ankles swollen, waiting for her time
Standing black and dusty
Feeling for her raven hair
For her coloured garments now her legs have gone

Your dance is past in the time with your beauty
No chance to live in the sky
And now you're fading fast in the heather
Nothing to live but to die