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

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