Visions: Evacuate The Dance Floor

Latest Update: 4 August 2009

I corrected the lyrics based on this "unplugged" live version of the song, where Natalie's vocals are much clearer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KCFbhcLrMw

The most obvious thing about the song is well, if this were to suddenly happen at your party:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/36560633@N04/3429729623/

... the song's title instruction would be followed in haste, no?

Now that I understand that last line, the "unplugged" version of the song brings up a completely different vision: that of disaster. Four years before the main story, the Featherwing Ranch clubhouse (where paraglider pilots and rocketeers gather when it is too dark to fly their devices) was struck by a tornado. Juubi's parents are the only people inside, fortunately. They call a Calgary radio station's weather hotline when they sense the tornado, but move too late to escape it. Juubi's mother is killed, his father permanently disabled. This was not inspired by the song, but has been in the story since about March, two months before Evacuate was released.

It is on Youtube here ... the official music video:

Cascada Channel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nouuI63FSLQ (RT)
AATW Records: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTl1ajzq0bk

I want to do Cascada fans a favor and put up the lyrics:

Evacuate The Dance Floor:
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Turn up the music, let's get out on the floor
I like to move it, come and give me some more
Watch me gettin' physical, out of control (uh)
As people watching me (uh)
I never miss a beat

Still the night, kill the lights
Feel it under your skin
Time is right, keep it tight
'Cus it's pulling you in.
Wrap it up, you can't stop
'Cus it feels like an overdose (feels like an overdose)

(Oh, Oh) Evacuate the dance floor!
(Oh, Oh) I'm infected by the sound
(Oh, Oh) Stop! This beat is killing me
Hey, Dr. DJ, let the music take me underground

(Everybody on the floor) Evacuate the dance floor!
(Oh, Oh) I'm infected by the sound
(Everybody on the floor) Stop! This beat is killing me
Hey, Dr. DJ, come burn this place right down to the ground

My body's aching to some overload (overload) [Nat echos]
Temperature's rising, I'm about to explode [Could refer to involuntary deployment of wings]
Watch me, dead intoxicated
Digging the show (uh)
It's got me hypnotized (uh)
Everybody step aside

Still the night, kill the lights
Feel it under your skin
Time is right, keep it tight
'Cus it's pulling you in-n-n-n.
Wrap it up, you can't stop
'Cus it feels like an overdose (feels like an overdose)

(Oh, Oh) Evacuate the dance floor!
(Oh, Oh) I'm infected by the sound
(Oh, Oh) Stop! This beat is killing me
Hey, Dr. DJ, let the music take me underground

(Everybody on the floor) Evacuate the dance floor
(Oh, Oh) I'm infected by the sound
(Everybody on the floor) Stop! This beat is killing me
Hey, Dr. DJ, come burn this place right down to the ground

(Come on and evacuate, feel the covers heating up) [I'm sure this refers to music, not bedding]
(Moving on it, fella, now push it to the top)
(Come on and evacuate, feel the covers heating up)
(Moving on it, fella, right you don't have to be afraid)

{Now guess who's back on a brand new track
They got everybody in the club going mad
So everybody in the back, get your back up on the wall and just shake that thang
You're crazy, you're ready, yo baby, let me see you write that thang
And drop it down low, low; Let me see you take it to the dance floor, yo!}

(Everybody in the core) Evacuate the dance floor!
(Everybody in the core) I'm infected by the sound
(Everybody on the floor) Stop! This beat is killing me
Hey, Dr. DJ, let the music take me underground

(Oh, Oh) Evacuate the dance floor!
(Oh, Oh) I'm infected by the sound
(Oh, Oh) Stop! This beat is killing me
Hey, Dr. DJ, let the music take me underground

(Everybody on the floor) Evacuate the dance floor
(Oh, Oh) I'm infected by the sound
(Everybody on the floor) Stop! This beat is killing me
Hey, Dr. DJ, come burn this place right down to the ground