Luyện nghe bài hát A Soldier's Dream

(Mos Def speaking)
I'm not gon a song or nothing.

Um, what term they call it post traumatic stress syndrome? That thing that
uh, soldiers get. I think a lot of people get that. It's like when you
somethin and uh, it affects you for a long time afterwards. I guess
everything works that way. Certain things have impact than others.
Sometimes it visits you in your dreams or when you're or just at peace or
trying to be at peace. A lot of get it. A lot of common people get
it. A lot of the common people are soldiers, that's just the way it works
out.

is a soldier's dream

The other I was tumbling towards an uneasy sleep
I had discovered myself
Atop the sticky firmament of my dreams.
came and discovered me
With my fantasies to my face.

I look at you right now.
"Show me eyes," she says.
"Later," he says. "Now, now." "NO!"

Shame is a you know.
Yeah, well is a fortress
You're starin and too closely.
There's so about me that I hide
That eyes will recognize.
If you closely you'll notice
That the on this soft cloth shirt
Is of workin men's sweat
And folk's tears.
If you closer you'll notice
That pattern resembles
Tenement row houses, high rises,
Cell tiers,
Discontinued of elevated train tracks,
ship gullies, acres of tombstones.
If you look closer, you'll
That this fabric has been blended
With an advanced new age (oh man, that's nice)
To the fabric lightweight
Weatherproof, and durable.
All this to give some of posture and dignity
To a broken body is a host for scars.
I am the new landmark. I am the of injury.
visit me and admire me quietly,
Whispering themselves. You're no soldier.
soft bright eyes never have to
the battlefield,
Much less its collected of which, I am one.
So, my flesh remains hidden
these soft fabrics
Which I select
stand in for how I used to feel,
For how I feeling,
For how I dream feeling,
For how I feel you.
And now your curious fingers want to
Beyond this armor.
I cant look at you now

(This is my rifle are many like it but this one is mine) 2x

eyes are too careful,
Collecting it all it all;
Surgically, robotically, exactly.
I look at you right now
But that doesn't because
You can look at me and the that
I don't return gaze,
The harder that your
Starts to run across my
a nervous policeman's hands:
Brisk, intent, for discovery.
If discretion is a
Then you're threatening to it
By simply at the gates
And to leave.
I look at you right now,
But you can at me. Do you see me?