It’s a perfect day for a matinee   The rain falling   It’s a perfect day for a matinee   And I’m calling in sick      So I can lose myself in a dark room   With two old ladies laughing when I do   And the ushers are watching too      It’s a perfect day for a matinee   And I think I love you   It’s a perfect day for a matinee   And I’m hoping you love me too      Hoping so hard that I need to escape   And calm down my heart to a regular pace   But I miss your hand on my knee   What a wonderful way       It’s a perfect day for a matinee   And I leave the theater, it’s light out, it’s light out   It’s a perfect day for a matinee   And I’ll call you later, tell you what the movie was about      And you’ll laugh and ask why I went alone   And I’ll lie and say I thought everybody’d already seen that one   But you would have gone   You would have gone   Oh you would have, you would have gone