Matinee Marvelous lyrics

Could it be mortal men live on

In a world of imagination

Playing parts forever unreal?

Those quintessential thespians

Condemned eternally to repeat

Frequented reruns, their lively past

They touch generations closely

Yet never drew a breath with them

The first to have gone to sleep

To know of a person seen aware

Still in fact they slumber e'er

A legacy of acts and words

Once great sex symbols flaunting

Grew old, feeble, and departed

But on the screen they remained

All in the matinee marvelous

Death, their great equalizer

Tends to the reels of fickle fate

Their voices echo on, cinematic

Though flesh has slipped away

Cheating reality's claim of stillness

The valiant taste death but once

Yet for them reminded of aging

It came too late and yet replays