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Shut Up and Dance may refer to:
"Shut up" is a direct command with a meaning similar to "be quiet"', but which is commonly perceived as an angrier and more forceful demand to stop making noise or otherwise communicating. The phrase is probably a shortened form of "shut your mouth up", and its use is generally considered impolite.
Prior to the Twentieth century, the phrase "shut up" was rarely used as an imperative, and had a different meaning altogether. To say that someone was "shut up" meant that they were locked up, quarantined, or held prisoner. For example, several passages in the Bible instruct that if a priest determines that a person shows certain symptoms of illness, "then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague seven days". This meaning was also used in the sense of closing something, such as a business, and it is also from this use that the longer phrase "shut up your mouth" likely originated.
One source has indicated this:
However, Shakespeare's use of the phrase in King Lear is limited to a reference to the shutting of doors at the end of Scene II, with the characters of Regan and Cornwall both advising the King, "Shut up your doors". The earlier meaning of the phrase, to close something, is widely used in Little Dorrit, but is used in one instance in a manner which foreshadows the modern usage:
Get up you little bastard
Cheat me for a while
Pretend that you still love me
Then show me how you smile
Love is like a riddle
We're looking for the key
Come on you little bastard, lean on me
Sometimes I feel like running
From your tainted kiss
Cos when I'm not beside of you
Your kisses I won't miss
So tell me what you want of me
I see you from afar
Anything is better than a northern star
Shut up and dance
Come take your chance on me
Shut up and dance
Shut up
Don't you pick a fight on me
Please love me like it used to be
Take it away
Take it away
Find yourself a victim, another brand new toy
Find yourself a lover whom you can destroy
Find another fool, pick another fight
Your love to me is poison so get out of sight
Now everything is blurry the colours fade away
Summer feels like autumn and dark becomes the day
Everything's a mess and you won't take me out
I have to get away from you there's no doubt
Halt's Maul und tanz
Come take your chance on me
Shut up and dance
Shut up
Don't you pick a fight on me
Please love me like it used to be
Sometimes I hear a lovely
Tune of a distant past
And then my heart remembers
How it all used to be
Sometimes I hear a lovely
Tune of a distant past
And then my heart remembers
How it all used to be
Used to be
Shut up and dance
Come take your chance on me
Shut up and dance
Shut up
Don't you pick a fight on me
Please love me like it used to be
Shut up and dance
Come take your chance on me
Shut up and dance
Don't you pick a fight on me
Please love me like it used to be