Luyện nghe bài hát Black Canal

They'll always find a for you in the sidewalk cafes
No one ventures into the streets days
Except strangers and those like me, looking for
I noticed the smell I got off the bus
And traced it down to a canal ran
through the heart of the city
Like an open vein of black rotten blood
A mirror broken only by the bubbles of gas
Escaping from the mess that lay on the bottom
Fuelled by the chemicals and effluent of the
Which was fed, in turn, by the barges and the
That followed that line and created the waves that
Surface to the dockside where they unloaded holds,
The swarms of people clambering over
I sat in a cafe and I was holding my own
And my own business
And a voice spoke in my as if it recognized
That I was the source of the smell

Have another beer boy, it with a pinch of snuff
And my eyes were bedazzled, by the jewels in his silken
And a voice rolled out from an ashen cloud from behind a long
Son, never need to smell the black canal

It was as if he'd read my mind, as if he it
And, as the afternoon was wasted, I aware
I was becoming up in his world
I became aware of the smell from the bouquet in his

It was taking me away the canal
And away from my
I was aware the perfumes were all around us
And he sold me the city, well at least he tried to all his stories

All the out of china
And all the satins out of
All the powders for your
Will the stench at bay

Have another beer boy, it with a pinch of snuff
Your will be bedazzled, by the jewels in my scented cuff
And a voice rolled out from an ashen cloud from behind a long
Son, you'll never to smell this black canal

And my world was spinnin', my head was
With this and his beer
And I up as he reached down
And the flower in his buttonhole
He and his eyes lied
I was staring at a suit no soul

No how you wash them
How you scrub and and boil
never get rid of the smell of the black canal
Of the black
Black
The canal
The black
The black

(derek paterson)