Luyện nghe bài hát Black Canal

They'll find a place for you in the sidewalk cafes
No one ventures into the streets these
Except strangers and those like me, for work
I noticed the smell I got off the bus
And traced it down to a canal ran
Right the heart of the city
Like an open vein full of rotten blood
A mirror surface only by the bubbles of gas
Escaping from the stagnating mess lay on the bottom
Fuelled by the chemicals and effluent of the
Which was fed, in turn, by the barges and the
That followed that and created 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 my own business
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 from an ashen cloud from behind a cigar
Son, you'll never need to smell the black

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

It was taking me away the canal
And away from my
I was aware that the perfumes were all 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
keep the stench at bay

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

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

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

(derek paterson)