《Oedipus Rex》歌词

歌曲： Oedipus Rex

所属专辑：LEHRER， Tom: Evenings with Tom Lehrer (1959)

歌手： Tom Lehrer

时长： 03:51

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And now may I have[00:00:00]

The next slide please[00:00:01]

Carried away there [00:00:12]

It seems that most of the[00:00:13]

Songs that you hear these days[00:00:14]

On the radio played by the[00:00:15]

Disk jockeys apart from rock[00:00:16]

And roll and other children's[00:00:18]

Records tend to be motion[00:00:20]

Picture title songs Apparently[00:00:28]

Producers feel that we[00:00:31]

Will not attend their movies[00:00:32]

Unless we have the titles[00:00:33]

Well drilled into our heads[00:00:34]

In advance Of course we[00:00:35]

Don't go anyway but at least[00:00:37]

This way they make back on[00:00:39]

The song some of what they've[00:00:40]

Lost on the picture But [00:00:41]

With the rise of the motion[00:00:44]

Picture title song we have[00:00:45]

Such hits of the past few years[00:00:46]

As The Ten Commandments Mambo[00:00:48]

Brothers Karamazov Cha Cha[00:00:57]

Incredible Shrinking Man I Love You[00:01:02]

I'm sure you're all familiar with these [00:01:08]

But a few years ago [00:01:09]

A motion picture version appeared[00:01:11]

Of Sophocles' immortal tragedy[00:01:12]

Oedipus Rex This picture[00:01:14]

Played only in the so called[00:01:17]

Art theaters and it was not[00:01:18]

A financial success And I[00:01:19]

Maintain that the reason it was[00:01:21]

Not a financial success[00:01:23]

You're way ahead of me was[00:01:30]

That it did not have a title[00:01:34]

Tune which the people could[00:01:35]

Hum and which would make[00:01:38]

Them actually eager to attend[00:01:46]

This particular flick So [00:01:48]

I've attempted to supply this [00:01:52]

And here then is the prospective[00:01:53]

Title song from Oedipus Rex[00:01:55]

From the Bible to the popular song[00:02:01]

There's one theme that we find right along[00:02:03]

Of all ideals they hail as good[00:02:06]

The most sublime is motherhood[00:02:09]

There was a man though who it seems[00:02:13]

Once carried this ideal to extremes[00:02:15]

He loved his mother and she loved him[00:02:19]

And yet his story is rather grim[00:02:22]

There once lived a man named Oedipus Rex[00:02:32]

You may have heard about his odd complex[00:02:34]

His name appears in Freud's index[00:02:37]

'Cause he loved his mother[00:02:38]

His rivals used to say quite a bit[00:02:43]

That as a monarch he was most unfit[00:02:45]

But still in all they had to admit[00:02:47]

That he loved his mother[00:02:49]

Yes he loved his mother like no other[00:02:53]

His daughter was his sister[00:02:55]

And his son was his brother[00:02:56]

One thing on which you can depend is [00:02:58]

He sure knew who a boy's best friend is[00:03:01]

When he found what he had done[00:03:03]

He tore his eyes out one by one[00:03:05]

A tragic end to a loyal son[00:03:07]

Who loved his mother[00:03:09]

So be sweet and kind to mother[00:03:13]

Now and then have a chat[00:03:15]

Buy her candy or some flowers[00:03:16]

Or a brand new hat[00:03:17]

But maybe you had better let it go at that[00:03:19]

Or you may find yourself with[00:03:22]

A quite complex complex[00:03:25]

And you may end up like Oedipus[00:03:26]

I'd rather marry a duck billed platypus[00:03:29]

Than end up like old Oedipus Rex[00:03:31]

Oedipus Rex - Tom Lehrer[00:03:36]