Luyện nghe bài hát Black Canal

They'll always find a place for you in the sidewalk
No one ventures into the streets these
Except strangers and like me, looking for work
I noticed the smell I got off the bus
And it down to a canal that ran
through the heart of the city
Like an open vein full of rotten blood
A mirror surface broken only by the of gas
Escaping from the stagnating mess that lay on the
Fuelled by the chemicals and of the city
was fed, in turn, by the barges and the ships
That followed that line and created the waves across
Surface to the dockside where they unloaded holds,
The swarms of 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 questioning the source of the

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

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

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

All the silks out of
And all the out of spain
All the for your noses
keep the stench 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 from behind a long cigar
Son, you'll never need to smell this black

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

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

(derek paterson)