Oh I know that she
  Has made a fool of him
  Like girls have done so many nights before
  Time and time again
  Life is so strange
  I don't know why
  But somebody, somebody has to cry
  There's gonna be no dancing when they get home
  There's gonna be no dancing
  There's gonna be no dancing
  There's gonna be no dancing when they get home
  
  Now he's telling her
  Every little thing he's done
  Once he glanced at the jackets of some paperbacks
  Now he's read every one
  He's such a drag
  He's not insane
  It's just that everybody
  Has to feel his pain
  There's gonna be no dancing when they get home
  
  He's getting down on his knees
  He finds that the girl is not so easy to please
  Oh oh, after all, his nights were just a paper striptease
  She's caught it like some disease
  
  If he says no dancing
  There's gonna be no dancing
  There's gonna be no dancing on my own
  
  She can't even speak to him
  He can't face her now
  He says "Even though I wanna shake your hand
  All I ever do is bow.
  So now you see
  How can it be.
  Why can't you give me anythin' but sympathy?"
  
  There's gonna be no dancing
  There's gonna be no dancing
  There's gonna be no dancing
  There's gonna be no dancing
  There's gonna be no dancing on my own