Forever Beautiful

[HELENA, spoken]
These portraits
They trap me in amber
They will not age
They will live
Forever

(singing)
My Dalí dear
That mad surrealist
He made me beautiful
Forever beautiful
My eyes like gems
Notice, please, each tiny lash
Would you believe
He painted with his own mustache?

Raoul Dufy
A brilliant colorist
He made me beautiful
Forever beautiful
A few deft strokes
Poppy red, then iris blue
In my small way
I do know something of this, too

Made women glorious
Made women glamorous
Used all my art to halt the march of time
I slowed it down a bit
There is no stopping it
But in a painting
It is always your prime

(spoken)
Right?

(singing)
Tamar' de Lempicka
She was bisexual
You see her love for me?
Well, it's subtextual
My lifelong fight
Is to keep my figure trim
But now I eat
'Cause Giacometti keeps me slim

[MAN 1, spoken]
Seven guest rooms
When was the last time she even had a visitor?

[MAN 2, spoken]
She's old, and scared

[MAN 1, spoken]
Wouldn't you be?

[HELENA]
Good, go then, you money men
I read your beady eyes
"Vain old lady, all alone
In bed until she dies"
I admit, I am a little bit afraid to meet death
But with my brilliant eye for art
When I depart, I'll cheat death...

...with my Picasso!
His early cubist years
I pose no clothes with him
Thank God, who knows with him?
He says your ears are like elephant in size
I say, from you
Well, who can tell from ears or eyes?

When I was girl of eight
My father sneered at me
A plainer face he'd never seen before
I said, "to hell with fate
I'll mold my destiny"
Packed my satchel
And walked right out the door

From this contented life
Without a cent, I was
Became a name the world could not ignore
I reinvent my life
As every artist does
I had nothing
I knew nothing
I only know there must be something more
So much more

Look at them all
Their light will never dim
If death should come for me
They bar the door on him
Though flesh may fade
Canvas lives immortally
And there I'll hang
From now through all eternity

Who gives a damn?
No children visit me
These are my progeny
Each an exquisite me
Who says I'm old?
I look at my life, so far
And I am beautiful
And I feel beautiful
Forever beautiful
When you feel beautiful
You are!