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Dance
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Sep 22, 2026 updated
Unseen Power album
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Song Meaning
Petra reworks a country-dance idiom into a warning about spiritual wandering in "Dance" — "dance with the one who brung ya, dance with the one you know who got you there, don't change hats, you know it's the one you wear." The folksy phrase becomes an argument for staying loyal to the God who was there from the beginning.
"I've been to the altar and I know I kneeled, but I ended up dancing in the grass of another field" names a specific kind of drifting — not abandoning faith outright, but wandering toward substitutes after a genuine commitment. "There's no use dancin' to a different drum when I've seen what happens and I know what will become" treats the outcome as already known from experience, not theory.
"You're never gonna find someone who loves you so... don't try to fix what has never been broke" closes the song by reframing the whole search for alternatives as unnecessary — the original relationship was never actually the problem.
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[Based on 2 Thessalonians 2:15, 2 Timothy 3:14, Philippians 1:6]
I've been to the party and I left alone
And I've danced with a few that I'd be better off on my own
I've been to the altar and I know I kneeled
But I ended up dancing in the grass of another field
Then someone told me I heard someone say
Dance with the one who brung ya
Dance with the one you know who got you there
Dance with the one who brung ya
Don't change hats, you know it's the one you wear
My feet start moving down inside my shoes
But I don't want to settle for the beat of a lonely blues
And there's no use dancin' to a different drum
When I've seen what happens and I know what will become
I can testify it's never worth a try
I looked high, I looked low
You're never gonna find someone who loves you so
Stand tall, stand strong
You're only gonna see you're right where you belong
Don't try to fix what has never been broke