Sally Can't Dance
Lou Reed

Sally dances on the floor

She says that she can't do it anymore

She walks down St. Marks Place

And eats natural food at my place


Now Sally can't dance no more

She can't get off of the floor

Sally can't dance no more

They found her in the trunk of a Ford

Ooohhh, she can't dance no more


Sally is loosing her face

She lives on St. Marks Place

In a rent-controlled apartment, eighty dollars a month

She has lots of fun, she has lots of fun, but


Sally can't dance no more, ooohhh

Sally can't dance no more

She took too much meth and can't get off the floor

Now Sally, she can't dance no more


She was the first girl in the neighborhood

To wear tied-dyed pants, ah, like she should

She was the first girl that I ever seen

That had flowers painted on her jeans

She was the first girl in her neighborhood

Who got raped on Tompkins Square, real good

Now she wears a sword, like Napoleon

And she kills the boys and acts like a son


Sally can't dance no more, ooohhh, now

Sally can't dance no more

She can't get herself off the floor, ah, huh

Sally, ooohhh, she can't dance no more


Watch this, now


Sally became a big model

She moved up to eighties and park

She had a studio apartment

And that's where she used to ball, folk singers

And that's where she used to ball, folk singers, but


Sally, she can't dance no more

Sally, she can't dance no more

Sally can't get herself off of the floor

Now, Sally, she can't dance no more

(Sally can't dance)

(Sally can't dance)


She knew all the really right people

She went to Le Jardin

She danced with Picasso's illegitimate mistress

And wore Kenneth Lane jewels, really it's trash, but


Sally can't dance no more, ooohhh

Sally can't dance no more

She can't get herself off of the floor

Now, Sally, ooohhh, she can't dance no more, no more

Dance, no more can't...

(Sally can't dance, Sally can't dance)

(Sally can't dance, Sally can't dance)

(Sally can't dance, Sally can't dance)

(Sally can't dance, Sally can't dance)

... Repeat and fade out


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Lyrics by Lou Reed

  A Dream   A Gift   A Sheltered Life   A Thousand Departed Friends   A Thousand Departed Friends   Adventurer   All Through The Night   All Tomorrow's Parties (Live)   All Tomorrows Parties   All Tomorrows Parties   America   America (Star Spangled Banner)   Andy's Chest   Andy's Chest   Animal Language   Average Guy   Baby Face   Balloon   Banging On My Drum   Baton Rouge   Beginning Of A Great Adventure   Berlin   Berlin (In Album Berlin)   Berlin [Live]   Betrayed   Big Sky   Billy   Black Angel's Death Song   Blind Rage   Bottoming Out   Broadway Song   Burning Embers   Busload Of Faith   Call On Me   Call On Me (Live)   Candy Says   Carolin Says II   Caroline Says 1   Caroline Says 2   Caroline Says I   Caroline Says I [*]   Caroline Says Ii   Caroline Says Part 2   Change   Charley's Girl   Charley's Girl   Chooser And The Chosen One   City Lights   Claim To Fame   Coney Island Baby   Courtly Orangutans   Crazy Feeling   Crazy Mary   Cremation   Cremation - Ashes To Ashes   Cremation / Ashes to Ashes   Dime Store Mystery   Dime Store Mystery (To Andy - Honey)   Dirt   Dirty Blvd.   Dirty Boulevard   Disco Mystic   Doin' The Thing That We Want To   Doin' The Things That We Want To   Doin' The Things That We Want To   Doing the Things That We Want To   Don't Hurt A Woman   Don't Talk To Me About Work   Don't Hurt A Woman   Dorita   Down At The Arcade   Downtown Dirt   Dreamin'   Dreamin' - Escape   Dreamin'   Ecstasy   Edgar Allan Poe   Egg Cream   Empty Bottles   Endless Cycle   Endlessly Jealous   Ennui   Every Frog Has His Day   Faces & Names   Faces & Names   Faces And Names   Families   Femme Fatale   Find Your Note   Finish Line   Fly Into The Sun   Foggy Notion   Follow The Leader   Foot Of Pride   Forever Changed   Frozen Warnings   Future Farmers Of America   Gassed & Stoked - Loss   Gassed And Stoked   Gassed And Stoked - Loss   Ghost Story   Gimmie Some Good Times   Going Down   Good Evening Mr. Waldheim   Good Evening Mr.Waldheim   Good Night Ladies   Good Taste   Goodby Mass   Goodby Mass - In A Chapel Bodily Termination   Goodnight Ladies   Growing Up In Public   Guardian Angel   Guilty   Guilty (Song)   Guilty (Spoken)   Halloween Parade   Hang On To Your Emotions   Hangin' 'round   Hangin' Round   Hangin' Round   HanginRound   Harry's Circumcision   Harry's Circumcision - Reverie Gone Astray   Harry's Circumcision   Heavenly Arms   Hello It's Me   Hello It's Me   Here Comes The Bride   Heroin   High In The City   Hold On   Home Of The Brave   Hooky Wooky   Hookywooky   Hop Frog   How Do You Speak To An Angel   How Do You Speak to an Angel?   How Do You Think It Feels   How Do You Think It Feels [*]   I Believe   I Believe In Love   I Can't Stand It   I Can't Stand It   I Heard Her Call My Name   I Love You   I Love You, Suzanne   I Remember You   I Wanna Be Black   I Wanna Know   I Wanna Know (The Pit And The Pendulum)   I Want To Boogie With You   I'll Be Your Mirror   I'm So Free   I'm Waiting for My Man   I'm Waiting For My Man (Live In New York - Transfo...   I'm Waiting For The Man   I'm So Free   I'm Waiting For The Man   Images   Imp Of The Perverse   In Our Sleep   Interview (Live In New York - Transformer Tour 197...   Interview With Lou Reed   Into The Divine   Into The Divine (Live)   Intro   Intro/Sweet Jane   Intro\/Sweet Jane   It Wasn't Me   It Wasn't Me   Janitor of Lunacy   Jealous Guy   Keep Away   Kicks   Kill Your Sons   Kill Your Sons [DVD]   Ladies Pay   Lady Day   Last Great American Whale   Leave Me Alone   Leave Me Alone [*]   Leave Me Alone [#]   Legendary Hearts   Like A Possum   Lisa Says   Little Sister   Looking For Love   Love Is Here To Stay   Love Makes You Feel   Lulu   Mad   Magic & Loss   Magic & Loss - The Summation   Magic And Loss   Magic And Loss - The Summation   Magician   Magician - Internally   Make Up   Make Up Mind   Make Up My Mind   Mama's Got A Lover   Mama's Got A Lover   Martial Law   Men Of Good Fortune   Metal Machine Music, Pt. 1   Metal Machine Music, Pt. 1   Metal Machine Music, Pt. 2   Metal Machine Music, Pt. 3   Metal Machine Music, Pt. 4   Mistrial   Modern Dance   My Friend George   My House   My Old Man   My Red Joystick   Mystic Child   N. Y. Stars   N.Y. Stars   N.Y.Stars   New Sensations   New York Telephone Conversation   No Chance   No Chance - Regret   No Money Down   No One Is There   Nobody But You   Nobody's Business   Nobody's Business   Nowhere At All   Nowhere at All [*]   Nyc Man   Ocean   Oh Jim   Oh, Jim   Old Poe   One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)   Ooohhh Baby   Open House   Original Wrapper   Outside   Overture   Pale Blue Eyes   Paranoia Key Of E   Peggy Sue   Perfect Day   Perfect Day [Acoustic Demo][#][*]   Perfect Day [From Trainspotting]   Pow Wow   Power & Glory Part Ii - Magic Transformation   Power & Glory - The Situation   Power & Glory Part ii - Magic Transformation   Power and Glory   Power And Glory - The Situation   Power And Glory Part II   Power And Glory Part II - Magic Transformation   Power and Glory, Pt. 2   Power and Glory, Pt2   Real Good Time Together   Revien Cherie   Revien Cherie (Live)   Ride Into The Sun   Ride Sally Ride   Riptide   Rock 'N' Roll   Rock & Roll   Rock & Roll Heart   Rock & Roll Heart   Rock ā€™nā€™ Roll   Rock And Roll   Rock And Roll Heart   Rock Menuet   Rock Minuet   Romeo Had Juliette   Rooftop Garden   Rouge   Sad Song   Sally Can't Dance   Satellite Of Love   Satellite Of Love '04   Science Of The Mind   Senselessly Cruel   September Song   Set The Twilight Reeling   Sex with Your Parents   Sex With Your Parents Part Ii   Sex With Your Parents (Live)   Sex With Your Parents (Motherfucker) Part II   Sex With Your Parents Part Ii   She's My Best Friend   She's My Best Friend   Shooting Star   Sick Of You   Sister Ray   Slip Away   Slip Away (A Warning)   Smalltown   Smiles   So Alone   Some Kind of Nature   Some Kinda Love   Something Happened   Soul Man   Spit It Out   Standing On Ceremony   Starlight   Strawman   Street Hassle   Street Hassle: Slip Away   Street Hassle: Street Hassle   Street Hassle: Waltzing Matilda   Stupid Man   Style It Takes   Sunday Morning   Sunday Morning (Live)   Sweet Jane   Sweet Jane (1969 Live Version)   Sword Of Damocles   Sword Of Damocles - Externally   Talking Book   Talking Book (Live)   Tatters   Teach The Gifted Children   Tell It To Your Heart   Temporary Thing   The Bed   The Bells   The Blue Mask   The Cask   The City In The Sea / Shadow   The City In The Sea/Shadow   The Conqueror Worm   The Day John Kennedy Died   The Great Defender   The Great Defender (Down At The Arcade)   The Gun   The Heroine   The Kids   The Kids (Live)   The Last Shot   The Original Wrapper   The Power Of Positive Drinking   The Power Of The Heart   The Proposition   The Raven   The Sword Of Damocles   The Tell-tale Heart (Part 1)   The Tell-tale Heart (Part 2)   The Valley Of Unrest   The View   There Is No Time   Think It Over   This Magic Moment   This Magic Moment (The Drifters cover)   Trade In   Tranquilize   Tripitena's Speech   Triumph   Trouble With Classicists   Turn Out The Light   Turn To Me   Turning Time Around   Underneath the Bottle   Vanishing Act   Venus in Furs   Vicious   Vicious Circle   Video Violence   Voices Of Freedom   Wagon Wheel   Wait   Waiting For The Man   Walk & Talk It   Walk and Talk It   Walk It Talk It (Live In New York - Transformer To...   Walk On The Wild Side   Walk on the Wild Side [2003 Remaster]   Walk On The Wild Sidelr   Warrior King   Warrior King - Revenge   Wave Of Fear   Waves of Fear   Waves of Fear [DVD]   What a Wonderful World (Louis Armstrong cover)   What Becomes A Legend Most   What's Good   What's Good - The Thesis   White Light White Heat   White Light/White Heat   White Light\/White Heat   White Prism   Who Am I? (Tripitena's Song)   Why Can't I Be Good   Why Do You Talk   Wild Child   With You   Women   Women [DVD]   Work   Xmas In February   You Wear It So Well   You'll Know You Were Loved   Youll Never Find

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