# 'What Dancing in the Dark is really about'

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**Post date:** [August 21, 2012, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dancing-in-the-dark-is-really-about/500343/9 "2012-08-21T13:25:02Z")

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> [@grindel](#):
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> pg 36 describing Scorpia’s innocence? Maybe?  
> “though herself too young to know that, to know, like Pirate, what the lyrics to ‘Dancing in the Dark’ are really about…”

It should be noted, that having been written in 1973, Gravity’s Rainbow couldn’t be referring to Springsteen’s song, which came out in 1984.

It was presumably the Howard Dietz/Arthur Schwartz song popularized by Artie Shaw.

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