Sean Nelson - Advance and Retreat lyrics

Advance and retreat You take a step towards me then shuffle your feet Dancing in place And your face says it's on A sentiment your mouth contradicts It's a pretty neat trick to turn gold into lead Snatch a chill from the jaws of such heat All in the name of an artful conceit: The sovereign advance and retreat Advance and retreat You say you don't like when the words are too sweet So you dip them in acid Then impa**ively ask why the skin's melting off of my face Just one taste of your poison's a pretty stiff drink: Surrender disguised as defeat I'll follow your lead Take a shoulder-width stance for the dance of advance and retreat We collide and we rebound- Integral but also discrete We can cover so much ground Or we can settle for the same few square feet... Advance and retreat You said you liked sailing I sent my whole fleet A rookie mistake, It's the kind I make best I confess: I was calling your bluff Enough is enough Though you've sung the same song all along It still sound incomplete When you catch yourself being too warm You instantly institute sweeping reform Put the word on the street: Meet the new boss- advance and retreat