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 those like me, looking for
I the smell when I got off the bus
And traced it to a canal that ran
Right the heart of the city
Like an open vein full of rotten blood
A mirror surface broken by the bubbles of gas
Escaping from the stagnating that lay on the bottom
Fuelled by the and effluent of the city
Which was fed, in turn, by the barges and the
That followed that line and the waves across that
Surface to the dockside where 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 spoke in my as if it recognized
That I was the source of the smell

Have another boy, take 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, you'll never need to 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 the bouquet in his buttonhole

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

All the out of china
And all the satins out of
All the powders for noses
Will the stench at bay

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

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

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

(derek paterson)