《Sounds Expensive》歌词

[00:00:00] Sounds Expensive - Stephin Merritt

[00:00:00] I would like fo you to have this emerald ring

[00:00:06] It was crafted many years before the ming

[00:00:11] Since the story's far too sad to tell

[00:00:17] I'll sing

[00:00:18] It was made for the blind concubine lola li

[00:00:21] Who was famous for being a little choosy

[00:00:25] Her rejections were something no man could survive

[00:00:29] So the ring-maker had himself buried alive

[00:00:33] It's a terrible tale full of passion and gore

[00:00:36] That sure sounds expensive

[00:00:38] We can't wait to hear more

[00:00:41] In a few generations it came to a monk

[00:00:44] Who said "things of this world

[00:00:46] Are all baubles and junk "

[00:00:48] So he gave it to lola lo

[00:00:50] Some general's wife

[00:00:52] Which was quickly discovered

[00:00:53] He paid with his life

[00:00:56] It's a tale of violence

[00:00:58] A thing we deplore

[00:00:59] But it sounds expensive

[00:01:01] What are you stopping for

[00:01:04] A bad playwright gave it to his new ingenue

[00:01:07] The impossibly bad actress sweet lola lu

[00:01:11] But the playwright said something

[00:01:13] He shouldn't have said

[00:01:15] And now both the playwright and

[00:01:17] The actress are dead

[00:01:19] It's a kind of thing no one can make anymore

[00:01:24] And it sounds expensive when it

[00:01:27] Falls to the floor