I unashamedly have this synth-pop masterpiece on repeat, and it makes me smile every time I listen to it
Lyrics:
Dance floor
(From time immemorial,
People have come together
Under one united flag,
The flag which is known as
Dance)
Got no time to worry about any inessentials
Like what language you speak, where you work, or what your name is,
We're gonna carpe this evening,
It's time to grab the throttle,
It's up to us to get the party going
Couldn't care less how much you've got in your bank account,
As long as you're here to dance and are pronto,
The jacket has been hung up,
The frontal lobe has been shut down,
Can you hear the hit song, drag me out into the centre of your
Dance floor
Packed with people
Don't need a simultaneous translator
I understand what you're saying
When we're out here on the
Dance floor
Packed with people
Unalloyed delight*
So cheers to you baby
It's a long time til tomorrow tonight
Your dirty dancing is jolly good
Swaying about here in dirlanda**
I can hear what your body's saying,
Get over here and ask me to dance,
I won't leave my baby in the corner,
Have you thought about all the positive health benefits
That we get as a bonus as we're standing here flailing about,
The blood is pumping,
The sweat is pouring,
As long as the beat's alive
We're going to live for ever
On a
Dance floor
Packed with people
etc.
*A joke that is impossible to translate: a slightly archaic phrase for "fly in the ointment" is "smolk i glädjebägaren", literally "a speck of dust in the goblet of joy", so the line here is "bägare utan smolk" - goblet without any dust in it - which is followed by the line "så skål på dig baby", "so cheers to you, baby". I've gone for "unalloyed delight" as a translation because that is the spirit of it and it scans with the original, but it does completely miss the gag
**reference to a Finnish earworm from the 1970s