赖世雄教你学唱歌: Unit 33 Rose Garden

Rose Garden

I beg your pardon.
I never promised you a rose garden.
Along with the sunshine,
there's got to be a little rain sometime.
When you take, you got to give,
so live and let live,
or let go. Oh, oh, oh.
I beg your pardon. I never promised you a rose garden.
I could promise you things like big diamond rings,
but you don't find roses growing on stalks of clover.
So you better think it over.
Well, if sweet-talking you could make it come true,
I would give you the world right now on a silver platter.
But what would it matter? So smile for a while and let's be jolly.
Love shouldn't be so melancholy¹ .
Come along and share the good times while we can.
I beg your pardon.
I never promised you a rose garden.
I could sing you a tune² and promise you the moon,
but if that's what it takes to hold you,
I'd just as soon let you go.
But there's one thing I want you to know.
You better look before you leap.
Still waters run deep,
and there won't always be someone there to pull you out,
and you know what I'm talking about

1 melancholy   

n.忧郁，愁思；adj.令人感伤（沮丧）的，忧郁的

参考例句：

• All at once he fell into a state of profound melancholy.他立即陷入无尽的忧思之中。
• He felt melancholy after he failed the exam.这次考试没通过，他感到很郁闷。

2 tune   

n.调子；和谐，协调；v.调音，调节，调整

参考例句：

• He'd written a tune,and played it to us on the piano.他写了一段曲子，并在钢琴上弹给我们听。
• The boy beat out a tune on a tin can.那男孩在易拉罐上敲出一首曲子。