[00:07.588][MADAME ARMFELDT]
[00:10.554]At the villa of the Baron De Signac
[00:15.276]Where I spent a somewhat infamous year
[00:20.294]At the villa of the Baron De Signac
[00:25.080]I had ladies in attendance
[00:27.687]Fire-opal pendants
[00:30.506]Liaisons! What's happened to them
[00:35.028]Liaisons today?
[00:40.068]Disgraceful! What's become of them?
[00:44.118]Some of them hardly pay their shoddy way
[00:49.859]What once was a rare Champagne
[00:52.673]Is now just an amiable hock
[00:55.269]What once was a villa at least Is "digs"
[00:59.792]What once was a gown with train
[01:02.786]Is now just a simple little frock
[01:05.372]What once was a sumptuous feast is figs
[01:11.182]No, not even figs—Raisins
[01:18.852]Ah, liaisons!
[01:23.300]Now, where was I? Where was I? Oh, yes
[01:29.114]At the palace of the Duke of Ferrara
[01:33.986]Who was prematurely deaf but a dear
[01:38.962]At the palace of the Duke of Ferrara
[01:43.949]I acquired some position
[01:46.266]Plus a tiny Titian
[01:49.136]Liaisons! What's happened to them
[01:53.908]Liaisons today?
[01:59.171]To see them—indiscriminate women
[02:03.690]It pains me more than I can say
[02:09.037]The lack of taste that they display
[02:16.402]Where is style?
[02:18.648]Where is skill?
[02:20.524]Where is forethought?
[02:24.826]Where's discretion of the heart
[02:27.643]Where's passion in the art
[02:30.342]Where's craft?
[02:33.701]With a smile
[02:35.542]And a will
[02:37.477]But with more thought
[02:41.843]I acquired a chateau extravagantly overstaffed
[02:50.107]Too many people muddle sex with mere desire
[02:54.812]And when emotion intervenes, the nets descend
[02:59.282]It should on no account perplex, or worse, inspire
[03:03.891]It's but a pleasurable means to a measurable end
[03:13.724]Why does no one comprehend?
[03:17.893]Let us hope this lunacy is just a trend
[03:23.399]Where was I? Where was I? Oh, yes
[03:29.268]In the castle of the King of the Belgians
[03:34.412]We would visit through a false chiffonier
[03:39.219]In the castle of the King of the Belgians
[03:44.104]Who, when things got rather touchy
[03:46.911]Deeded me a duchy
[03:49.791]Liaisons! What's happened to them?
[03:55.178]Liaisons today
[03:59.566]Untidy—take my daughter, I taught her
[04:04.425]I tried my best to point the way
[04:09.664]I even named her Desiree
[04:17.680]In a world where the kings are employers
[04:26.267]Where the amateur prevails and delicacy fails to pay
[04:34.399]In a world where the princes are lawyers
[04:42.990]What can anyone expect except to recollect
[04:50.926]Liai—