Would you like to dance with me?

Inspired by Leonard Cohen’s “Dance Me to the End of Love”.


Would you like to dance with me to your beauty with a flaming violin,
Would you like to dance with me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in?
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove,
Would you like to dance with me to the end of love?
Would you like to dance with me to the end of love?

Let me see your beauty when we are left alone,
Let me feel you moving as they do in Babylon.
Show me slowly what I only know the limits of.
Would you like to dance with me to the end of love?
Would you like to dance with me to the end of love?

Would you like to dance with me to the wedding now, dance me on and on,
Would you like to dance with me very gently and dance me very long?
We are both below our love, we are both above.
Would you like to dance with me to the end of love?
Would you like to dance with me to the end of love?

Would you like to dance with me to the children who are waiting to be born,
Would you like to dance with me through the veils that our kisses have outworn?
Raise a tent of cover now, though every thread is torn.
Would you like to dance with me to the end of love?

Would you like to dance with me to your beauty with a fiery violin,
Would you like to dance with me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in?
Touch me with your bare hands, touch me with your glove.
Would you like to dance with me to the end of love?
Would you like to dance with me to the end of love?

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin.
Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in.
Touch me with your naked hand, touch me with your glove.
Dance me to the end of love.
Dance me to the end of love.
Dance me to the end of love.

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Here's a link to the song:

https://disk.yandex.ru/d/-DMjoF_Tir9iHQ

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Russian translation of the song is via the following link:

http://stihi.ru/2025/12/28/7598