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

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