Luyện nghe bài hát La Rossa

(Hammill)

Lacking sleep and food and
here I am again, encamped upon floor,
sanctuary and nourishment,
encouragement and and more.
The streets seemed crowded,
I put on my bravest
I know you know I am acting,
I can see it in eyes.
In the light of freedom I know
that I cannot deny that I wasted time,
have it away in idle boasts
of my and fidelity,
when simpler would have profited me
most...
...it isn't enough in the end, I'm looking
for hope.
the organ-monkey screams
as the begin to spit
he'll go through the dance routines
just as long as he thinks fit,
just as long as he knows that it's dance,
or quit.

Like the monkey I dance to a tune
all of these years I've longed to lie with you,
I've bogged myself in the web of talk,
quack and sophistry-
at physiciality always baulked,
like the man in the chair who it's
him to walk.
I've been hiding words,
a deeper flame exists,
faintly aware of the
of I have missed.
But the and the smell of you,
La from head to toe...
I don't know what I'm you,
but I think you ought to
the dam wall will break, soon the water
flow.
Though the organ-monkey
as the organ-grinder
hoping, at the most,
for an end to his dancing
still he up and down on his perch
in the jerky way.
it might mean an end to all friendship
there's I'm working up to say.

Think of me you will;
I know you think you feel my pain-
no matter if that's the surface.
If we made love now would change all
that has before?
Of course it would, no way it could ever
be the same...
one line crossed,
one more explained.
Now I need more than just words,
the are plain that lead from all
action.
If we make love now it change all
is yet to be...
never could we agree in the way again.
One world lost,
one more gained.

La Rossa, you me, you read me as though
I am
though I it there's no no way in which I can

though it means that you'll my story
at last I'd trade all the talk,
the joking, the and the quips,
all the conversations, all the friendship,
all the words and all the
for the warmth of body,
the more vivid touch of lips.
All bridges behind me,
all safety reach,
the monkey his chains out blindly,
only to find released.

me, take me now and hold me deep
inside your body,
wash me as some to the shore,
there me lying evermore!
Drown me, me now and hold me down
before your hunger,
burn me at the of the night-
me life!