
Date of issue: 12.02.2006
Record label: Nonesuch
Song language: English
Sounds Expensive |
I would like for you to have this emerald ring |
It was crafted many years before the Ming |
Since the story’s far too sad to tell |
I’ll sing |
It was made for the blind concubine Lola Li |
Who was famous for being a little choosy |
Her rejections were something no man could survive |
So the ring-maker had himself buried alive |
It’s a terrible tale |
Full of passion and gore |
That sure sounds expensive! |
We can’t wait to hear more |
In a few generations it came to a monk |
Who said things of this world |
Are all baubles and junk |
So he gave it to Lola Lo |
Some general’s wife |
Which was quickly discovered |
He paid with his life |
It’s a tale of violence |
A thing we deplore |
But it sounds expensive! |
What are you stopping for? |
A bad playwright gave it to his new ingenue |
The impossibly bad actress sweet Lola Lu |
But the playwright said something |
He shouldn’t have said |
And now both the playwright and |
The actress are dead |
It’s a kind of thing |
No one can make anymore! |
And it sounds expensive when it |
Falls to the floor |
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The Top and the Ball | 2006 |
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