25 August 2025

Music Monday: A Different Danse Macabre

And now for something completely different... 

The inspiration for choosing this for our Music Monday this week is twofold: 

1. It's getting toward the end of summer, which means it is pre-spooky season for those of us who love a cold snap and a jump scare. I am firmly in the first camp, but the writer in me is constantly looking for spooky and paranormal things once it stops feeling like the surface of the sun outside.

2. This is definitely for my adopted brother Tony, who is ALL IN for scary, horror, etc. He talked me into watching Sinners, recently, which you will know from my previous Monday's post was life-changing for me as an author...

The lyrics are below because on my screen the captions were tiny and, sadly, auto-generated. I love you Duran Duran, and have for years, but for the love of all that is unholy and goes bump could you PLEASE caption your videos? Ta very much. Now, run along and get ready...Halloween is just (2 months and change) around the corner...



Danse Macabre
by Duran Duran

Halloween girl seize the fray
Brothers and sisters, lead the way
Shackled to the rhythm, your soul is weighed
So you better get down on your knees and pray

Comin' up for The Hawsker Mad-Bull
Jumpin' on the hot seat, lyin' in the dead pool
Delivery quake, expensive mistake
The damage, the damage, the damage, the damage

Hey, no way
Some ghost jive in an AC Cobra
Auto-da-fé
Get dirty up on the Danse Macabre

Hey, no way
I had you down for the cat's pyjamas
Auto-da-fé
Get dirty up on the Danse Macabre

If you don't mind, if you don't mind
If you don't mind, if you don't mind
If you don't mind, if you don't mind
If you don't mind diggin' down the gold mine
If you don't mind, if you don't mind
If you don't mind, if you don't mind
If you don't mind, if you don't mind
If you don't mind diggin' down the gold mine

Heaven sake, don't blow your karma
Liberate your Danse Macabre

Zombie in the back room, nuns in the bed
Kids in KISS makeup, toasting the bread
An Elvis' moans a lone Natty Dread
With death in the living room, offering a head

Are you watching? Are you watching?
Collars and chains and cuffs are matching
Kami-kaze stag-do, twist and shout
At Sudan Archives on a girls' night out

Hey, no way
Some ghost jive in an AC Cobra
Auto-da-fé
Get dirty up on the Danse Macabre

Hey, no way
I had you down for the cat's pyjamas
Auto-da-fé
Get dirty up on the Danse Macabre

If you don't mind, if you don't mind
If you don't mind, if you don't mind
If you don't mind, if you don't mind
If you don't mind diggin' down the gold mine
If you don't mind, if you don't mind
If you don't mind, if you don't mind
If you don't mind, if you don't mind
If you don't mind diggin' down the gold mine

If you don't mind, if you don't mind
If you don't mind, if you don't mind
If you don't mind, if you don't mind
If you don't mind diggin' down the gold mine
If you don't mind, if you don't mind
If you don't mind, if you don't mind
If you don't mind, if you don't mind
If you don't mind diggin' down the gold mine

If you don't mind, if you don't mind
If you don't mind, if you don't mind
If you don't mind, if you don't mind
If you don't mind diggin' down the gold mine
(Liberate your Danse Macabre) if you don't mind, if you don't mind

If you don't mind, if you don't mind
If you don't mind, if you don't mind
If you don't mind diggin' down the gold mine
if you don't mind, if you don't mind

If you don't mind, if you don't mind
If you don't mind, if you don't mind
If you don't mind diggin' down the gold mine
(Liberate your Danse Macabre) if you don't mind, if you don't mind

If you don't mind, if you don't mind
If you don't mind, if you don't mind
If you don't mind

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