Slow Dance

Written by David L. Weatherford and published in 1991 by the Russ Berrie Company

Slow Dance

Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain
Slapping on the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly’s
erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into
the fading night?


You better slow down
Don’t dance so fast
Time is short
The music won’t last.

Do you run through each day
On the fly?
When you ask,
How are you?
Do you hear the reply?
When the day is done
Do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?


You’d better slow down
Don’t dance so fast
Time is short
The music won’t last.

Ever told your child,
We’ll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste,
Not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die
Cause you never had time
To call and say, “hi”.


You’d better slow down
Don’t dance so fast
Time is short
The music won’t last.


When you run so fast
to get somewhere,
You miss half the fun
of getting there.
When you worry and
hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift
Thrown away.
Life is not a race.

Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over.

Written by David L. Weatherford and published in 1991 by the Russ Berrie Company