《Design For Living》歌词

[00:00:00] Design For Living - Flanders & Swann

[00:00:07] When we started making money

[00:00:09] When we started making friends

[00:00:12] We found a home as soon as we were able to

[00:00:15] We bought this bijou residence for about a thousand more

[00:00:18] Than the house our little house was once the stable to

[00:00:21] With charm

[00:00:22] Colour values

[00:00:23] Wit

[00:00:23] And structural alteration

[00:00:25] Now designed for graceful living

[00:00:28] It has quite a reputation

[00:00:32] We're terribly House and Garden

[00:00:34] At number seven-B

[00:00:36] We live in a most amusing muse

[00:00:39] Ever so very contemporary

[00:00:41] We're terribly House and Garden

[00:00:42] The money that one spends

[00:00:44] To make a place that won't disgrace

[00:00:46] Our House and Garden friends

[00:00:48] We've planned an uninhibited interior decor

[00:00:52] Curtains made of straw

[00:00:53] We've wallpapered the floor

[00:00:56] We don't know if we like it but at least we can

[00:00:58] Be sure

[00:00:59] There's no place like Home Sweet Home

[00:01:02] It's fearfully Maison Jardin

[00:01:05] At number seven-B

[00:01:06] We've rediscovered the chandelier

[00:01:09] Tres tres very contemporary

[00:01:11] We're terribly House and Garden

[00:01:13] Now at last we've got the chance

[00:01:15] The garden's full of furniture

[00:01:16] And the house is full of plants

[00:01:19] It doesn't make for comfort

[00:01:21] But it simply has to be

[00:01:22] 'Cause we're ever so terribly up-to-date

[00:01:24] Contemp-or-ar-or-y

[00:01:26] Have you a home that cries out to your every visitor

[00:01:28] "Here lives someone who is exciting to know"

[00:01:32] No

[00:01:33] Well why not collect those little metal

[00:01:37] Bottle-tops and nail them upside-down to the floor

[00:01:41] This will give the sensation of walking on little metal

[00:01:45] Bottle-tops turned upside-down

[00:01:48] Why not get hold of an ordinary Northumbrian

[00:01:52] Spokeshaver's coracle Paint it in contrasting stripes

[00:01:56] Of say telephone black and white white and hang it

[00:01:59] Up in the hall for a guitar tidy for parties

[00:02:03] Why not drop in one evening for a mess of pottage

[00:02:08] Our speciality just aubergine and carnation petals

[00:02:11] With a six-shilling bottle of Mielle du Pap a feast

[00:02:14] Fit for a king

[00:02:16] I'm delirious about our new cooker fitment with the

[00:02:18] Eye-level grille This means that without my having to

[00:02:21] Bend down the hot fat can squirt straight into my

[00:02:24] Eyes

[00:02:29] We're frightfully House and Garden

[00:02:31] At number seven-B

[00:02:32] The walls are patterned with shrunken heads

[00:02:34] Ever so very contemporary

[00:02:37] Our boudoir on the open plan has been a huge

[00:02:40] Success

[00:02:40] Though everywhere's so open there's nowhere

[00:02:42] Safe to dress

[00:02:44] With little screens and bottle lamps

[00:02:46] And motifs here and there

[00:02:48] Mobiles in the air

[00:02:49] Ivy everywhere

[00:02:51] You mustn't be surprised to meet a cactus on the stair

[00:02:54] But we call it Home Sweet Home

[00:02:57] We're terribly House and Garden

[00:02:59] As I think we've said before

[00:03:00] But though seven-B is madly gay

[00:03:03] It wouldn't do for every day

[00:03:06] We actually live in seven-A

[00:03:09] In the house next door