Luyện nghe bài hát Cygnus X - 1 Book ii: Hemispheres

I.
our weary world was young
The of the ancients first began
The gods of love and
Sought alone to rule the of man

battled through the ages
But still neither force yield
The people divided
soul a battlefield
Every soul a

II. Apollo: Bringer of
'i bring truth and
I bring wit, and fair
Precious gifts beyond
We can build a of wonder
I can make you all

'I find you food and shelter
you fire to keep you warm
Through the endless winter
You can live in grace and
In the world that you

The people were
forth to claim their prize
They ran to build cities
And converse the wise

But one day the fell silent
Yet they not what was wrong
The urge to these fine things
Seemed not to be so

The men were consulted
And the of death was crossed
In quest of
To out what they had lost ...

III. Dionysus: of Love
'I bring to give you solace
In the of the night
In the heart's eternal
You need trust your feelings
Only love can you right'

'I laughter, I bring music
I joy and I bring tears
I will soothe primal fears
off those chains of reason
And your prison

The cities were
And the forests song
They danced and as brothers
They knew love could not be

Food and wine had aplenty
And they beneath the stars
The people were
And the gods watched afar

But the fell upon them
And it caught unprepared
Bringing wolves and cold
And the of men despaired ...

IV. Armageddon: The Battle of Heart and
The divided
As the heart and mind
the people left unguided
For so troubled years
In a cloud of and fears
Their was torn asunder
Into hollow

Some themselves, some fought each other
just followed one another
Lost and aimless like their
For their were so unclear
And the could not appear
Their were divided
Into hemispheres

who did not fight
Brought tales of old to
My 'Rocinante' by night
On her final

To the of Cygnus' fearsome force
We set our
Spiralled that timeless space
To this place

V. Cygnus: of balance
I have and awareness
But I have no shape or
As a spirit
I am and yet unborn
I have passed Olympus
As was told in of old
To the city of
white and purest gold

I see the gods in battle on high
across the sky
I move, I cannot hide
I feel a silent begin inside

Then all at once the chaos
A stillness fell, a peace
The warriors my silent cry
And their struggle, mystified

Apollo was
thought me mad
But they heard my further
And wondered, and were sad

Looking from Olympus
On a world of and fear
Its splintered
sorry hemispheres

They sat a while in
Then they at last to me
'we will you Cygnus,
The God of balance you be'

The sphere: a kind of
We can our road together
If our are all the same
We can run alone and
If we a different aim

Let the truth of love be
Let the love of shine clear

Armed with sense and
the heart and mind united
In a single perfect