John Mellencamp Taxi Dancer song lyrics

Well she started out, just to be a dancer

Gonna make her livin' dancin' in the Broadway shows

So she hitchhiked cross the country from Pasaroba to the Big Red Apple

Where your dreams are made, your debts must be paid on time

I'll hold you close, Taxi Dancer

And I'll listen to how you outgrew your dreams, how they faded away

I'll hold you close, Taxi Dancer

We can pretend this floor is the Broadway stage

Well she wasn't used to livin' in the city

So she took a job cleanin' up as a maid at the Grammercy Park Hotel

And all her auditions, no, didn't turn out so pretty

So she took a job dancin' at the bar down a street as well

I'll hold you close, Taxi Dancer

And I'll listen to how you outgrew your dreams, how they faded away

I'll hold you close, Taxi Dancer

We can pretend this floor is the Broadway

Well I don't know how long or how far her fortune did take her

But I heard she sits alone drunk downtown on 42nd Street

And sometimes an old Butch will slip a quarter into the jukebox

And she'll stagger to the bar and dance with that girl for free

I'll hold you close, Taxi Dancer

And I'll listen to how you outgrew your dreams, how they faded away

I'll hold you close, Taxi Dancer

We can pretend this floor is the Broadway stage

I'll hold you close

I'll hold you close

I'll hold you close, Taxi Dancer

Faded away

Hold you close, Taxi Dancer

Faded away

Hold you close, Taxi Dancer

Faded away