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 stalks¹ 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 melancholy² . 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 tune³ 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 stalks   

n.主茎，花梗，叶柄( stalk的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• flowers on long stalks 长茎上的花
• Don't nip any stalks off the plant. 别掐断植物茎！ 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

2 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。

3 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。