THE BLACKNESS WOULD HIT ME= Darkness used to hit me. THE BLACKNESS= Darkness (here it refers to an evil sensation). That’s a time warp because time was distorted. The most common use, though, is when you see on TV a slow motion of something fleeting, for example, a drop of water falls into a glass of water and it takes 1/2 second, but you can see it very slowly and it takes 1/2 minute. For example, if you are deep into your memories and are re-living a past scene intensely, so intensely you feel you are living it again now, when you come back to reality you can say that you had a time warp. A time warp is a distortion in the flow of time, either because time stops, or goes extremely slow or because you turn back in time and go to the past or because the past feels like present. TIME WARP= Here it is just the name of the dance, but look at the “Song Meaning” section to understand why they call this dance “Time Warp”. If something takes its toll it means that you have to pay a price for it, that it has unwanted consequences. TOLL= A fixed charge or tax for a privilege. MADNESS= Craziness, the act of being mad (AmE= crazy). He had a pick up truck and the devil's eyes When a snake of a guy gave me an evil wink Let, let, le-le-le-le-let's exercise, let's exercise So you think you can do the time warp, eh? The lyrics for the pop version change a little bit, here they are: Go to links to see the pop version and learn how to dance it. The dance was a success in Britain and got popular for parties, birthdays, wedding and all sorts of celebrations and it is still popular today there. This song got very famous and there is also a more modern pop version of it. This song is a fragment from a famous musical (made also into a movie) called Rocky Humour Picture Show.
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