Luyện nghe bài hát Black Canal

They'll always a place for you in the sidewalk cafes
No one ventures the streets these 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 the heart of the city
Like an open full of black rotten blood
A mirror surface broken only by the of gas
Escaping from the stagnating that lay on the bottom
by the chemicals and effluent of the city
Which was fed, in turn, by the and the ships
That followed that line and created the waves that
Surface to the dockside they unloaded their holds,
The of people clambering over them
I sat down in a and I was holding my own
And minding my own
And a spoke in my ears as if it recognized
I was questioning the source of the smell

Have another beer boy, take it 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 never need to smell the canal

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

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

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

Have another beer boy, it with a pinch of snuff
Your eyes be bedazzled, by the jewels in my scented cuff
And a voice rolled out from an cloud from behind a long cigar
Son, you'll need to smell this black canal

And my world was spinnin', my head was
With this and his beer
And I looked up as he down
And snorted the flower in his
He smiled and his lied
I was at a suit with no soul

No how you wash them
How you and bleach and boil
You'll get rid of the smell of the black canal
Of the canal
canal
The black
The black
The canal

(derek paterson)