Luyện nghe bài hát A Dog In The Manger

Two a.m., a southbound junction, innocence takes
Common sense has lost all function, in the night
The has flown the nest, he's breaking family ties
He recalls his mother weeping her hands held to her eyes
His father was too drunk to know or care
That the rod not spared had spoiled this child, his son and heir

The city lights have him southward, magnets in his mind
Where the streets are paved with gold and lady luck is

The boy only wants some attention, wasting our time
never survive on his own, for he's no son of mine

There's thousands more just like him, seeking love never found
No hearth and to call his own, our fox has run to ground
His father him right from wrong and beat him black and blue
the boy with his clenched fist, the only way he knew

He never went to school much 'cause he could not disguise
The weals and on his legs, the rings around his eyes

He only a family to help him to shine
All he has is a ticket to ride on the poverty

He stirs from his gin and Temazapam
To find while he slept has done him over
His things are all or strewn 'cross the floor
And he can't quite recall the of the evening before

As race by, our young prince waits, behind his cardboard shield
An Oxfam upon his head, his thumb a sword to wield
A shoddy clad of the road, the quest is underway
Drawn by glowing street in the night, and smoke by day

The city lights have pulled him southward, magnets in his
Where the streets are paved with gold and luck is kind

The boy only wants some attention, he's our time
He needed a family to help him to shine

He'll survive on his own, for he's no son of mine
All he has is a ticket to ride on the line