Luyện nghe bài hát Masks

(Hammill)

He's a man of the and one of the present,
a man who hides behind a mask behind a
a clown, a fool, believing it cool to be
or that the game is all who laughs the last.

So he all his problems to his friends and relations,
his neuroses to their view.
They accept as fact masochistic mumble of his act--
how could know what was false and what was true?

when he wakes
he feels he's walked a dream
but all it
to remind him things are what they
is the belief that the man behind the mask can dance

smile
he himself cavorting,
Pierrot for a
before
to find relief in the of the dark, most telling mask.

all the pantomimes are ended
he peels all the make-up off his
to reveal, beneath, the tears running all down his
alone, he opens to the world...but much too late.
He's left, in the end, without a face.