XIAO-LI:
For a girl the key in life will be her marriage, this is true
So the wealth can be insured on down her line
You can’t get richer than my husband, so I guess I’ve won
And my son, an angel, such the perfect life

I had a boy in college, he was poor, we were in love
But in the student uprise both of us in jail
My family said they’d see that he remained there or was free
If by fall I wore their chosen bridal veil

My happinеss instilled by mommy’s little pills
My one dеlight in life aside from my son, why
Must Kem always brood, bleak and sad?

He sits before that screen and never smiles at me
How I'd give all I have to make him grin again
Just one smile is all that I ask

Joy, it will come one day in Elysium
Til then we endure as we must
All our duties and cares, lonesome burdens we bear
Til Elysium
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My husband is a cold one, business burdens fill his head
He and Kem don’t see me here, I can attest
The online school he’s built has cost a fortune and then some
And Kem, the guinea pig on which it rests
My son I know is sad, a lonely life he has
You’ll smile I say when you see Elysium
And now he will know what it's like

We do our duty til one day too many pills
My Kem has been released, in heaven we will meet
When soon I am free of this life

Joy, it will come one day in Elysium
Til then we endure as we must
All our duties and cares, lonesome burdens we bear
Til Elysium