Luyện nghe bài hát Cygnus X-1 Book Ii: Hemispheres I. Prelude

When our weary world was
The of the ancients first began
The gods of and Reason
Sought to rule the fate of man

They through the ages
But still neither force would
The were divided,
soul a battlefield
Every a battlefield

I bring and understanding,
I wit and wisdom fair
Precious gifts compare
We can build a of wonder
I can make you all

I will find you and shelter
you fire to keep you warm
Through the endless winter
You can in grace and comfort
In the world you transform

The people were
Coming forth to claim prize
ran to build their cities
And among the wise

But one day the fell silent
Yet knew not what was wrong
The urge to build fine things
not to be so strong

The men were consulted
And the bridge of death was
In of Dionysus
To find out what they had

I bring to give you solace
In the of the night
In the Heart's light
You need only your feelings
Only love can steer you

I bring laughter, I music
I bring joy and I tears
I will your primal fears
Throw off those of reason
And your disappears

The cities abandoned,
And the forests song
They danced and lived as
knew love could not be wrong

Food and wine had aplenty
And they slept the stars
The people contented
And the Gods from afar

But the winter fell upon
And it them unprepared,
wolves and cold starvation
And the hearts of men

The Universe
As the heart and collided
the people left unguided
For so many years
In a cloud of and fears,
Their world was torn into hollow hemispheres

Some fought themselves, some fought other
Most just followed one
Lost and aimless like their
For their were so unclear
And the could not appear
Their spirits divided into blinded hemispheres

Some who did not
Brought of old to light
My Rocinante' sailed by
On her final

To the heart of fearsome force
We set our
Spiraled through that space
To immortal place

I have memory and
But I have no or form
As a spirit
I am dead and yet

I have into Olympus
As was told in of old
To the of immortals
white and purest gold

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

Then all at the chaos ceased
A fell, a sudden peace
The warriors felt my cry
And stayed struggle, mystified

was astonished
Dionysus me mad
But heard my story further
And they wondered, and sad

Looking down Olympus
On a world of and fear
Its surface
Into hemispheres
They sat a while in
And they turned at last to me
We call you Cygnus,
The God of you shall be

We can walk our road
If our goals are all the
We can run and free
If we a different aim

Let the of love be lighted
Let the love of truth clear
Sensibility, armed with and liberty
the heart and mind united in a single perfect sphere