The dancing was natural once.The dancing was powerful once.
The dancing was irresistible once
and inalienable – except
I just looked it up, and that means
unable to be given away by the possessor
and that is exactly what happened.

The dancing isn’t here anymore.
It wasn’t sold
and it wasn’t stolen.
Maybe it just drifted away on the wind
but it surely isn’t where it used to be.

The dancing’s just gone,
is what it is.
When the music comes on
and Betty begins to get the beat
I just seem to stay in my seat.

It’s not like it was before.
Something’s happened
and the dancing has disappeared from me.
It’s nowhere around that I can see.
Where oh where could it possibly be?
I’ve still got the rhymes, apparently!

But lost
is the dancing.