Tom Lehrer《Oedipus Rex》[MP3_LRC]

[00:00.00]90听音乐网 www.90T8.com  [00:02.25]And now  may I have [00:03.45]The next slide please [00:14.16]Carried away there [00:15.28]It seems that most of the [00:16.33]Songs that you hear these days [00:17.44]On the radio played by the [00:18.59]Disk jockeys  apart from rock [00:20.73]And roll and other children's [00:22.06]Records  tend tend to be motion [00:31.09]Picture title songs  Apparently [00:33.16]Producers feel that we [00:34.16]Will not attend their movies [00:35.20]Unless we have the titles [00:36.21]Well drilled into our heads [00:37.36]In advance  Of course  we [00:39.70]Don't go anyway  but at least [00:41.36]This way they make back on [00:42.30]The song some of what they've [00:43.39]Lost on the picture  But [00:46.75]With the rise of the motion [00:47.87]Picture title song we have [00:49.16]Such hits of the past few years [00:50.80]As  The Ten Commandments Mambo [00:59.76]Brothers Karamazov Cha Cha [01:05.21]Incredible Shrinking Man I Love You [01:10.95]I'm sure you're all familiar with these [01:12.43]But  a few years ago [01:13.89]A motion picture version appeared [01:15.66]Of Sophocles' immortal tragedy [01:17.61]Oedipus Rex [01:19.37]This picture [01:19.81]Played only in the so called [01:20.93]Art theaters  and it was not [01:22.49]A financial success  And I [01:24.44]Maintain that the reason it was [01:26.13]Not a financial success [01:33.20]You're way ahead of me  was [01:37.50]That it did not have a title [01:39.00]Tune which the people could [01:41.83]Hum  and which would make [01:49.86]Them actually eager to attend [01:51.65]This particular flick  So [01:53.64]I've attempted [01:55.57]I've attempted [01:55.98]To supply this [01:56.94]And here then is the prospective [01:58.65]Title song from  Oedipus Rex [02:04.60]From the Bible to the popular song [02:07.27]There's one theme that we find right along [02:10.19]Of all ideals they hail as good [02:12.55]The most sublime is motherhood [02:16.55]There was a man though  who it seems [02:18.93]Once carried this ideal to extremes [02:23.26]He loved his mother and she loved him [02:25.87]And yet his story is rather grim [02:36.35]There once lived a man named Oedipus Rex [02:38.52]You may have heard about his odd complex [02:40.70]His name appears in Freud's index [02:42.60]'Cause he loved his mother [02:46.93]His rivals used to say quite a bit [02:48.79]That as a monarch he was most unfit [02:51.02]But still in all they had to admit [02:53.08]That he loved his mother [02:57.15]Yes  he loved his mother like no other [02:59.55]His daughter was his sister [03:00.58]And his son was his brother [03:02.19]One thing on which you can depend is [03:05.11]He sure knew who a boy's best friend is [03:07.66]When he found what he had done [03:09.32]He tore his eyes out  one by one [03:11.40]A tragic end to a loyal son [03:13.44]Who loved his mother [03:17.71]So be sweet and kind to mother [03:19.20]Now and then have a chat [03:20.76]Buy her candy or some flowers [03:22.09]Or a brand new hat [03:23.82]But maybe you had better let it go at that [03:26.81]Or you may find yourself with [03:29.26]A quite complex complex [03:31.49]And you may end up like Oedipus [03:34.08]I'd rather marry a duck billed platypus [03:36.40]Than end up like old Oedipus Rex [03:40.45]Oedipus Rex - Tom Lehrer