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

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