Cake: "Commissioning A Symphony In C" Lyrics

So youll be an austrian nobleman

Commissioning a symphony in c

Which defies all earthly descriptions

Youll be commissioning a symphony in c



With money you squeeze from the peasants

To your nephew you can give it as a present

This magnificent symphony in c

Youll be commissioning a symphony in c



Completely filling the palace concert hall

Its warm and golden like an oven thats wide open

It has a melody both happy and sad

Built on victorias young triads



Youve entered the room with great caution

Though no one in the hall is even watching

They are transfixed

They are forgetting just to breath

They are so taken by your symphony...

In c



Youre sitting there thinking your thoughts

They are not about what is but what is not

You are sitting there breathing in your breath

You are seldom breathing life but mostly death



So youll be an austrian nobleman

Commissioning a symphony in c

Which defies all earthly descriptions

Youll be commissioning...

A symphony...

In c