an innocent fiction midnight confessions from deputy prussians colored my time in the rheine with a misplaced directive from a dirty connector i got out just in time fleet of foot messengers tapped me in bucharest and paid for a train to berlin where a night club at midnight was cleared out too quickly i made my face in the wings the palace ain't nothing compared to this majesty here i am dancin for the president of germany i opened up with a rag and a one-step and finished the bit with a freeze then a touch of a shuffle and i closed with a softshoe i hit em with my best routine the palace ain't nothing compared to this majesty here i am dancin for the president of germany the orpheum never saw a bigger hit in 2 A Day the national cant beat this state a spotlight it shone on heavy artillery the silence was worse than the shot i'm just a dancer an innocent fiction more like a dream than not applause cascading from one set of fingertips you believe what you believe midnight confessions of deputy prussians i got out just in time © 2003 Erin McKeown