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n terms of them singing after one is supposed to be dead, it's mostly because of creative license (as I see it).

A similar issue pops up in with Capriccio Farce where the "ten characters" fall in and out of a timeline of actual events vs the abstract narration made during choruses (remove the singers and those particular lyrics don't lose anything). MotC and MotG also have this to a lesser extent.

Unless someone actually wants to debate how literal we should interpret the song, at which point I bring up the theater within the theater argument.