Luyện nghe bài hát Black Canal

They'll always find a for you in the sidewalk cafes
No one ventures into the streets these
Except strangers and those me, looking for work
I noticed the when I got off the bus
And traced it down to a canal ran
Right through the of the city
Like an vein full of black rotten blood
A mirror surface only by the bubbles of gas
from the stagnating mess 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 and created the waves across that
Surface to the where they unloaded their holds,
The swarms of clambering over them
I sat down in a cafe and I was my own
And my own business
And a spoke in my ears as if it recognized
I was questioning the source of the smell

Have another beer boy, take it with a pinch of
And my eyes were bedazzled, by the jewels in his 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 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 from the bouquet in his buttonhole

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

All the silks out of
And all the satins out of
All the powders for noses
Will keep the at bay

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

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

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

(derek paterson)