The tricky first dance

I’ve been thinking about our first dance.

Now I believe it’s a song that should have meaning, have a story behind it, maybe link to a special moment you once shared or at least echo your feelings for each other. And it shouldn’t, under any circumstances, be a Westlife track. Or Angels by Robbie Williams.

My fiance and I have been wracking our brains over this. We have a handful of songs that are 'us' and remind us of each other and our 'courtship' (to use a word you don't hear enough these days).

But none seem quite right as a first dance.

To make my point, below are the lyrics to the song that we both listened to on my iPod the night we met. The film Team America was just out at the cinema and we'd both seen it and thought it was hilarious. My husband-to-be was particularly impressed that I had the soundtrack on my iPod. So we sat on the kerb outside the pub (The Three Kings in Clerkenwell) with our pints and shared my earphones to listen and laugh at it.

We later joked that the spoof romantic song was naturally 'our song'. And if you don't listen to the words, we could get away with it. It could pass as something similar to that Aerosmith track from the movie Armageddon. But when you DO listen carefully, it's not exactly an ideal choice for shuffling around a dance floor to in front of your mother, aunt and uncle. Maybe we'll sneak it in somewhere though - just for our own amusement.


I need this, I need love, I need you
I don't need one hearbeat, I need two

There's an emptiness I need to fill
And only one emptiness will do

Only a woman
Can brighten up my day
Only a woman
Can touch me the right way
Only a woman
Is allowed to touch me there
All I ask is that you're a woman

I like rain, I like ham, I like you
You're around, you're right here, so you'll do

I'm gonna tell you how much I love your mind
But it simply isn't true

Only a woman
Can brighten up my day
Only a woman
Can touch me the right way
Only a woman
Is allowed to do what you're doing right now
All I ask is that you're a woman

And on saturdays when I've been partying hard
And it's 4 in the morning, and I'm on my fith tab of E
that's the only time I don't even care if you are a woman

Right now
Only a woman
Can brighten up my day
Only a woman
Can do it just the right way
Please just be a woman
Or a man...