[ti:All This Useless Beauty]
[ar:Elvis Costello]
[00:00.00] 作曲 : Costello
[00:10.180]It's at times such as this she'd be tempted to spit
[00:15.950]If she wasn't so ladylike
[00:21.260]She imagines how she might have lived
[00:25.260]back when legends and history collide
[00:32.060]So she looks to her prince finding he's so charmingly
[00:37.720]slumped at her side
[00:42.580]Those days are recalled on the gallery wall
[00:47.690]And she's waiting for passion or humour to strike
[00:56.390]What shall we do, what shall we do with all this useless beauty?
[01:07.370]All this useless beauty
[01:21.600]Good Friday arrived, the sky darkened on time
[01:26.550]'Til he almost began to negotiate
[01:32.280]She held his head like a baby and said "It's okay if you cry"
[01:42.400]Now he wants her to dress as if you couldn't guess
[01:47.630]He desires to impress his associates
[01:52.840]But he's part ugly beast and Hellenic deceased
[01:58.060]So she finds that the mixture is hard to deny
[02:06.150]What shall we do, what shall we do with all this useless beauty?
[02:17.240]All this useless beauty
[02:25.590]She won't practice the looks from the great tragic books
[02:30.750]That were later disgraced to face celluloid
[02:36.210]It won't even make sense but you can bet
[02:41.330]If she isn't a sweetheart or plaything or pet
[02:46.430]The film turns her into an unveiled threat
[02:54.730]Nonsense prevails, modesty fails
[02:59.550]Grace and virtue turn into stupidity
[03:04.760]While the calendar fades almost all barricades to a pale compromise
[03:14.980]And our leaders have feasts on the backsides of beasts
[03:19.880]They still think they're the gods of antiquity
[03:25.150]If something you missed didn't even exist
[03:30.150]It was just an ideal -- is it such a surprise?
[03:38.910]What shall we do, what shall we do with all this useless beauty?
[03:49.380]All this useless beauty
[03:57.870]What shall we do, what shall we do with all this useless beauty?
[04:08.240]All this useless beauty