“I'm your phantom dance partner. I'm your shadow. I'm not anything more.”
Haruki Murakami book Dance Dance Dance
Source: Dance Dance Dance
Whaler (1994), Right Beside You
Context: I'm dancing in the shadows of life
And death is all around me tonight
I miss you making love to me right
Beside myself I'm holding you tight
Someone is waiting for me to rise
And drive into the ocean I cried
And I cried and I cried my baby to sleep
Beside myself my soul to keep Right beside you I see
Right beside you I stay
Right beside you I'll be
Right beside you always.
“I'm your phantom dance partner. I'm your shadow. I'm not anything more.”
Haruki Murakami book Dance Dance Dance
Source: Dance Dance Dance
“Let's dance for fear your grace should fall
Let's dance for fear tonight is all”
David Bowie (1947–2016) British musician, actor, record producer and arranger
Let's Dance
Song lyrics, Let's Dance (1983)
“I'm in a wild mood tonight. I want to go dance in the foam. I hear the banshees calling.”
Raymond Chandler (1888–1959) Novelist, screenwriter
“Night, the shadow of light,
And Life, the shadow of death.”
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic
Second chorus, lines 1-12.
Atalanta in Calydon (1865)
Context: Before the beginning of years
There came to the making of man
Time with a gift of tears,
Grief with a glass that ran,
Pleasure with pain for leaven,
Summer with flowers that fell,
Remembrance fallen from heaven,
And Madness risen from hell,
Strength without hands to smite,
Love that endures for a breath;
Night, the shadow of light,
And Life, the shadow of death.
“Paris is the happiest city in the world tonight. All Paris is dancing in the streets.”
Larry LeSueur (1909–2003) American journalist
Goldstein, Richard. " Larry LeSueur, Pioneering War Correspondent, Dies at 93 http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/07/arts/larry-lesueur-pioneering-war-correspondent-dies-at-93.html", (obituary), The New York Times, February 7, 2003, accessed June 21, 2011, from a radio broadcast following the 1944 Liberation of Paris.
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
Is Divorce Wrong? (1889)
Context: To me, the tenderest word in our language, the most pathetic fact within our knowledge, is maternity. Around this sacred word cluster the joys and sorrows, the agonies and ecstasies, of the human race. The mother walks in the shadow of death that she may give another life. Upon the altar of love she puts her own life in pawn. When the world is civilized, no wife will become a mother against her will.
Toby Keith (1961) American country music singer and actor
You Shouldn't Kiss Me Like This.
Song lyrics, How Do You Like Me Now?! (1999)