[00:12.04]She walks alone down a sleazy backstreet
[00:15.52]Around a corner, up an alley to a dead end
[00:19.31]There under a small blue light
[00:21.98]She enters an unmarked doorway
[00:25.71](A low heartbeat, a low pounding escapes into the night)
[00:33.26]This is a place she goes to fulfill a very basic need
[00:37.53]Something people have been doing since the dawn of man
[00:41.06]To communicate without talking
[00:44.98]If she needs something
[00:46.55]She makes a gesture with her hand
[00:49.16]And mouths what she wants
[00:53.38]She wants to make a connection
[00:56.97]A certain kind of connection
[01:00.48]No this is not about something from the black market
[01:04.44]This is about no questions
[01:07.81]This is about smoke and sweat and beats
[01:13.44]This is about no message
[01:14.84]
[01:17.96]Take your partner by the hand
[01:23.45]He's a woman, she's a man
[01:28.85]What's so hard to understand
[01:34.13]Take your partner by the hand
[01:39.82]Mona in the promised land
[01:45.21]Take your partner by the hand
[01:50.79]Keep it simple if you can
[01:56.22]Take your partner by the hand
[01:58.69]
[02:38.17]Wait a minute,just listen
[03:03.92]At the club they circle around some sex goddess like vultures
[03:08.73]Flashbulbs popping
[03:10.43]Like bees around their queen
[03:13.39]She is completely indifferent to all the commotion
[03:17.03]And orders some mango tango ice cream by sign language
[03:23.17]She's approached by some wild-eyed poet drunk with love
[03:28.56]I like her easy refusal, the way she shakes her head
[03:35.20]She lives these days in the attic of an old dance hall
[03:38.92]That's been shut down for years
[03:41.15]And swears there's times when she can hear feet shuffling below
[03:46.35]And can see the shadows swaying, moving to the music
[03:50.98]
[03:52.70]Take your partner by the hand
[03:58.09]He's a woman, she's a man
[04:03.43]What's so hard to understand
[04:08.97]Take your partner by the hand
[04:15.30]
[04:15.70]Elevator going up
[04:17.56]Fifth floor
[04:19.84]Lady's handbags, shoes, leather accessories, and electronics
[04:27.12]Wait a minute, where am I, on this elevator to nowhere
[04:33.37]Going up, going down
[04:38.46]Then like a hallucination
[04:41.12]I saw her out of the corner of my eye
[04:43.75]Studying some shoes very carefully
[04:48.02]She definitely had a particular purpose for these shoes in mind
[04:52.65]Then as quickly as she appeared, she disappeared
[04:56.44]Back into the slash and burn of New York
[05:00.56]Ah, stuck in traffic
[05:03.33]Crosstown, the stress of not moving
[05:09.96]She described it as like being locked in a car
[05:14.03]With a madman behind the wheel
[05:16.70]And the radio tuned to static
[05:18.72]
[05:20.98]Take your partner by the hand
[05:25.65]He's a woman, she's a man
[05:31.78]What's so hard to understand
[05:37.14]Take your partner by the hand
[05:42.90]Mona in the promised land
[05:48.28]Take your partner by the hand
[05:53.75]Keep it simple if you can
[05:59.29]Take your partner by the hand
[06:05.00]Take your partner by the hand
[06:10.19]Take your partner by the hand