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

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