Sounds Expensive-Stephin Merritt

[ti:Sounds Expensive] [ar:Stephin Merritt] [al:Showtunes] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Sounds Expensive - Stephin Merritt [00:00.44]I would like fo you to have this emerald ring [00:05.30] [00:06.26]It was crafted many years before the ming [00:11.80]Since the story's far too sad to tell [00:15.41] [00:17.04]I'll sing [00:18.33]It was made for the blind concubine lola li [00:21.72]Who was famous for being a little choosy [00:25.98]Her rejections were something no man could survive [00:29.01]So the ring-maker had himself buried alive [00:32.35] [00:33.38]It's a terrible tale full of passion and gore [00:36.31]That sure sounds expensive [00:38.23]We can't wait to hear more [00:40.34] [00:41.14]In a few generations it came to a monk [00:44.93]Who said "things of this world [00:46.85]Are all baubles and junk " [00:48.65]So he gave it to lola lo [00:50.38]Some general's wife [00:51.23] [00:52.22]Which was quickly discovered [00:53.85]He paid with his life [00:56.88]It's a tale of violence [00:58.01]A thing we deplore [00:59.71]But it sounds expensive [01:01.25]What are you stopping for [01:04.22]A bad playwright gave it to his new ingenue [01:07.99]The impossibly bad actress sweet lola lu [01:11.70]But the playwright said something [01:13.59]He shouldn't have said [01:15.15]And now both the playwright and [01:17.25]The actress are dead [01:18.29] [01:19.73]It's a kind of thing no one can make anymore [01:24.52]And it sounds expensive when it [01:27.00]Falls to the floor