Dance on a Volcano

(Collins, Banks, Hackett, Rutherford)

"Dance on a Volcano" is the first track on Genesis' seventh studio album, the 1976 A Trick of the Tail.

Trivia

 * "To 'dance on a volcano' is to be 'blissfully ignorant of something bad about to happen'. The term was used as a phrase to describe U.S. and European upper classes right before the great depression (See, for instance, The Devil's Decade, by Claud Cockburn)."
 * The song was performed by the band until 1982, coming back in 1992 as a part of a medley.
 * Originally, on the 1976 tour, "Dance on a Volcano" and "Los Endos" were performed separately, in their entirety. They were then combined into the "Dance on a Volcano"/drum duet/Los Endos section. After several more tours, this version eventually shortened to just the drum duet and Los Endos — starting after the Abacab Tour and continuing until the Invisible Touch Tour.