Luyện nghe bài hát Black Canal

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

Have 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 an ashen cloud from behind a long cigar
Son, you'll never need to smell the canal

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

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

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

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

And my was spinnin', my head was awash
this promises and his beer
And I up as he reached down
And snorted the 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 bleach and
You'll never get rid of the smell of the canal
Of the canal
Black
The black
The canal
The canal

(derek paterson)