'00: Ghosts of the Marathon Dancers - The Magnetic Fields

The ghosts of the marathon dancers

In an abandoned dancehall

Go whirling around in the eddies of dust

When the wind comes in through a chink in the wall

All the music and the dancers are gone

But the dance goes on

They all danced till some long-ago dawn

But the dance goes on

In the cellars of dead Rockefellers

Hallways and subways and vaults

Go twisting and turning for mile after mile

In a glorious Gilded Age waltz

All the music and the dancers are gone

But the dance goes on

They all danced till some long-ago dawn

But the dance goes on

And I wrote the above in this ghost town

For a movie that wasn’t to be

An adaptation of a French musical

Produced by Ted Hope, directed by Ang Lee

All the rights and the money are gone

But the song goes on

Like most movies, it’ll never be done

But the song goes on