'Wild Thing' Legend Chip Taylor's Unsettling Film Noir Video For 'Dance With a Hole in Your Shoe'

New York, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Shore Fire Media) - Chip Taylor turned to film noir for the video to accompany his hard-hitting song 'Dance With a Hole in Your Shoe,' from 'New Songs of Freedom' (June 10, Train Wreck Records). Beginning from behind a drinking glass, the black and white video weaves in and out of shadows, light and a smoky haze, obscuring then closing in on Chip's and his band mates' faces and instruments.

Despite the music's leisurely tempo and soothing key, the song's often-unsettling lyrics parallel the video's characteristically noir tone. Engaging his audience in intellectual discourse, 'Dance With a Hole in Your Shoe' is ultimately a witty bit of hope with Taylor repeating the maxim 'If the sea's still green and the sky's still blue, you can dance with a hole in your shoe.'

War, war what the hell for? Global warming, call Al Gore
War, war kick it out the door 'who needs it?' So they say

So kill everybody who's not like you
And his friends can come back and they can kill you too
Everybody can kill somebody and maim somebody and lame somebody and
tame somebody, shame somebody, dance with a hole in your shoe

If the sea's still green and the sky's still blue
If the sea's still green and the sky's still blue you can dance with a
hole in your shoe