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?