🎵 Luyện Nghe Bài Hát: This Sad Burlesque - Elvis Costello

 I write in hopes  by the time you get this letter
 We may live to see a change  the better
 Or are we  devoted to these wretched selfish motives
  the cold facts and figures all add up
 They cannot contradict  sad burlesque
 
 This  burlesque
 With miserable failures making entertainment of our 
 Laughter cannot dignify  elevate
 This sad 
 
 Now can  recall being young and idealistic
 Before  knee-deep in hogwash and arithmetic
 The  smirk
 The  runs like clockwork
 Will run down eventually and splutter  a stop
 
 P.S. Well by now you know the worst of 
 And we've heard all  alibis that they've rehearsed
  smug predictions
 If it's not  contradiction
 Keep faith  human nature
 And have mercy on the  in this sad burlesque