we can dance if we want to we can leave your friends behind cos your friends don t dance and if they don t dance well they re no friends of mine say we can go wher we want to places they can never find and we can act like we come from out of this world leave the real world far behind we can go if we want to night is young and so was i and we can dress real neat from our heads to our feet and surprise them with a victory cry i said we can act if we want to if we don t nobody will and you can act real rude and totally removed i can act like an imbecile we can dance we can dance everything is under control we can dance we can dance doing it from pole to pole we can dance we can dance everybody look at your hands we can dance we can dance everybody s taking the chance the safety dance woh safety dance yeah the safety dance we can dance if we want to we got all your life to find as long as we have music never gonna lose it everything will work out right we can dance if we want to we can leave your friends behind cos your friends don t dance and if they don t dance well they re no friends of mine we can dance we can dance everything is under control we can dance we can dance doing it from pole to pole we can dance we can dance everybody look at your hands we can dance we can dance everybody s taking the chance safety dance oh safety dance yeah safety dance safety dance safety dance oh safety dance safety dance