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 like me, looking for work
I the smell when I got off the bus
And traced it to a canal that ran
through the heart of the city
Like an vein full of black rotten blood
A mirror broken only by the bubbles of gas
Escaping from the stagnating mess that lay on the
Fuelled by the chemicals and effluent of the
was fed, in turn, by the barges and the ships
That followed line and created the waves across that
Surface to the where they unloaded their holds,
The swarms of people clambering them
I sat down in a cafe and I was my own
And minding my own
And a spoke in my ears as if it recognized
That I was questioning the source of the

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

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

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

All the silks out of
And all the out of spain
All the powders for your
Will the stench at bay

Have another beer boy, it with a pinch of snuff
Your eyes will be bedazzled, by the jewels in my scented
And a rolled out from an ashen cloud from behind a long cigar
Son, you'll need to smell this black canal

And my world was spinnin', my was awash
this promises and his beer
And I looked up as he reached
And snorted the in his buttonhole
He smiled and his lied
I was staring at a suit no soul

No matter how you them
How you scrub and bleach and
You'll get rid of the smell of the black canal
Of the black
Black
The black
The black
The black

(derek paterson)