The story of a sad man chasing a love beyond his grasp

"Dancing with Dakota" is our latest single. The song tells the story of Eddy, a lonely man who falls in love with a woman who goes by her chosen stage name, "Dakota," who happens to be an exotic dancer. Dakota's job requires her to be flirtatious and shower affection & attention on her clients, it's all part the job. Eddy on the other hand, mistakes this attention for actual, real love; but despite his deepest wishes, her imagined love for him is just that: imagined.

The song builds up to an uncomfortable realization presented at the end of the bridge, an awkward moment in the story that makes us squirm each time we perform the song: it's the moment of disillusionment for Eddy, when Dakota reveals that her love exists only in the confines and context of her workplace: the club.

In writing this song, we worked very hard to accomplish three things:

1. We worked hard to ensure that we made no sexual references. This song was never intended to be about sex or even the sexual tension of the venue or occupation, but about the dysfunctional relationship between Dakota and Eddy. We sought to tell a story of one of the many forms that love takes.

2. We had to make the character of Dakota, redeemable and relatable. She couldn't be some heartless awful person. As is the case in real life, real people with real feelings and real lives work in every profession.

3. We had to make Eddy seem sad and a little pathetic, but not creepy or evil. He's just a man... standing in front of a woman... asking her to love him...

Notice that at the end of the song, we move to the past tense: "He still dances with Dakota in the backroom of the club. To her it's just a job, but to him it felt like love."

Eddy still goes back to visit Dakota. And although the illusion or delusion is now behind him, he now knows this is just a job for her, he still chooses to go back because of how she makes him feel: important, and special. And maybe a little less lonely...

We hope you like this song. We feel it is our best story ever.