'00: Ghosts of the Marathon Dancers

by The Magnetic Fields

From the album: 50 Song Memoir

Duration: 3:05

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Lyrics for '00: Ghosts of the Marathon Dancers

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 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

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