Luyện nghe bài hát Black Canal

They'll always find a place for you in the sidewalk
No one ventures the streets these days
Except strangers and like me, looking for work
I the smell when I got off the bus
And traced it down to a that ran
through the heart of the city
Like an open vein full of rotten blood
A mirror broken only by the bubbles of gas
Escaping from the stagnating that lay on the bottom
Fuelled by the chemicals and effluent of the
Which was fed, in turn, by the barges and the
followed that line and created the waves across that
Surface to the dockside they unloaded their holds,
The swarms of people clambering them
I sat in a cafe and I was holding my own
And minding my own
And a voice in my ears as if it recognized
I was questioning the source of the smell

Have another 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 cigar
Son, you'll 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 in his buttonhole

It was me away from the canal
And from my questions
I was that 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 for your noses
Will keep the at bay

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

And my world was spinnin', my was awash
With this promises and his
And I up as he reached down
And snorted the flower in his
He smiled and his eyes
I was staring at a suit with no

No matter how you wash
How you scrub and and boil
You'll never get rid of the smell of the black
Of the black
Black
The black
The canal
The canal

(derek paterson)