Written: Gallagher Street, Las Cruces NM, 1978
Knees played this a couple of times with the Calhoon Brothers at the Las Cruces Inn but it wasn’t particularly danceable, hummable, or memorable. He probably had David Loggins’ Don’t Treat Me Like a Stranger in mind when he wrote the music. The words refer to the dance floor at the LCI with its strobe light, a first for cowboy bars in New Mexico.
We are gathered here outside the sight of God
To see who we’ll join together
Two-by-two twirling in the flashing light
Dancin on the edge of a feather.
We play along but you are the players
Spinning with stars in your eyes
Each woman Carmen, each man Cougie
Each with his own disguise.
So keep on keepin the thrill in sight
As you’re waltzing along through the air
I wonder whether she would spend the night
If the music weren’t there
If the music weren’t there.
When the moves have been made
In this romantic game
We’ll pick up the pieces and go
We’ll read all about it in the Sunday news
And we’ll wait for the next picture show.