Luyện nghe bài hát Black Canal

They'll always find a place for you in the sidewalk
No one ventures into the streets days
Except strangers and those like me, looking for
I the smell when I got off the bus
And traced it down to a that ran
Right through the heart of the
Like an open vein full of black rotten
A mirror broken only by the bubbles of gas
from the stagnating mess that lay on the bottom
Fuelled by the chemicals and effluent of the
Which was fed, in turn, by the and the ships
That followed that line and the waves across that
to the dockside where they unloaded their holds,
The of people clambering over them
I sat in a cafe and I was holding my own
And my own business
And a spoke in my ears 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 in his silken cuff
And a voice rolled out an ashen cloud from behind a long cigar
Son, never need to smell the black canal

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

It was me away from 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 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 beer boy, take it with a of snuff
Your eyes will be bedazzled, by the jewels in my scented
And a voice rolled out from an cloud from behind a long cigar
Son, you'll never to smell this black canal

And my world was spinnin', my was awash
With promises and his beer
And I looked up as he 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 and bleach and boil
You'll never get rid of the of the black canal
Of the canal
canal
The black
The black
The black

(derek paterson)