Segue II

*phone rings*

(Vanessa)

Hello

[Prince]

Vanessa?

(Vanessa)

I'm not recording this time

So how are you?

[Prince]

How are you?

(Vanessa)

Fine

[Prince]

Fine

(Vanessa)

Excuse me, but ah, what's up with your voice?

[Prince]

It's a special phone, a tone box

(Vanessa)

A tone box. Oh, l-like in the movie Barbarella

[Prince]

Yeah, gives me courage, you know

Like a veil I can hide behind

It talks at, around, through her

(Vanessa)

Okay, so why are you giving me an interview?

[Prince]

Because I want you

(Vanessa)

Pardon me?

[Prince]

To tell the truth

(Vanessa)

Oh, well, I will if you will

For example, the first song of your opera

[Prince]

Ah, the opera

(Vanessa)

Why don't you tell me your real name

[Prince]

My name is Victor

(Vanessa)

That is not the truth and you know it

How old are you?

[Prince]

I'm into my 5th soul now so that makes me three hundred

(Vanessa)

Why do you pretend to be amazed?

[Prince]

And twenty

I'm amazed at your beauty

I saw you on television

(Vanessa)

320, hmm, don't sweat it, honey, I'm too young for you

Although rumor has it that the crown princess of Cairo

Is now a member of the NPG

Are you there?

[Prince]

Ahem

(Vanessa)

Do you know that the princess is 16 years old?

How 'bout this for a story: "320 year old robs the cradle"

What a scandal

[Prince]

Scandal

(Vanessa)

You know, if you don't give me the real story

I'll have to make one up of my own

So why don't you tell me the truth - the truth - the truth

Why don't you tell me the truth?