“Dance With Me” by Sam Himself – A Song Feature

 

     The song opens with contributions that are individually non-complex, yet collectively powerful. A synth playing a repeating four-note sequence is soon joined by gentle acoustic guitar and baritone vocals with a relaxing gravelly quality. And the first line of the lyrics is an uninsightful, everyday question – “So, who’s making coffee?”. The start is simple but attention-gripping, baiting the listener with expectations for even more. The “more” arrives 23 hypnotic seconds into “Dance With Me,” when percussion and an electric guitar enter without disrupting the intimacy of the song from Sam Himself.

     Still, the full beauty of the song isn’t revealed until the lead vocals are joined by more melodically smooth backing vocals at 0:44. The contrast is striking. The female vocalist is Boshra AlSaadi, who is from Damascus, Syria, but currently resides in New York. And the full splendor of Dance With Me” isn’t appreciated until the final minute, when the song crescendos to an energizing summit, then drops to a conclusion that is instrumentally calm and lyrically telling - “Dance with me / Nothing’s ever worth fighting for / In the end”.
 
     Sam Himself is the musical project of Samuel Koechlin. He was born in Switzerland. But “Dance With Me” was recorded at Outlier Inn Studios in New York’s Catskill Mountains. In addition to identifying Boshra AlSaadi as female backing vocalist, the song’s credits note that Josh Werner contributes bass. Sam Himself is preparing to release the album “Moonsongs,” which will include “Dance With Me.” The album is scheduled to drop in Spring of 2025 (produced by Daniel Schlett (Iggy Pop, The War on Drugs) and mastered by Greg Calbi (Bruce Springsteen, Iggy Pop)).
 
     “Dance With Me” by Sam Himself

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Lyrics of “Dance With Me” by Sam Himself
So, who’s making coffee?
Been lying here awhile
Too late for whiskey
It might be time
 
It might be time
 
So dance with me
Like there’s nothing worth fighting for
Dance with me
Like it’s all right, it’s all right, it’s all right
It’s all right now don’t think twice
 
Cards on the nightstand
Your head or mine
I’ll cry like an orphan for you
Smile like a knife
 
The worst of us got the best of us
Now the best we got ain’t good enough
It might be time
 
So dance with me
Like we never danced before
Dance with me
Dance with me all the way to the door
 
Dance with me
Love makes losers of us all
Dance with me
Like it’s all right, it’s all right, it’s all right
It’s all right now don’t think twice
Like it’s all right, it’s all right, it’s all right
It’s all right now don’t think twice
 
Dance with me
Nothing’s ever worth fighting for
In the end