Luyện nghe bài hát Mortal City

She should have rented this apartment in the Mortal City
The cold though every crack she puts her hand up to
The radiator's so she has to use electric heat

And tonight was the first with the brother
Of the guy she worked to
He lived a couple streets away, he listened, he had to say
She him up for dinner sometime, sometime was tonight

The radio gave on the ice storm while she made the dinner
They said from all the talk you shouldn't drive or even walk and just in
We're asking everyone to turn off their power, they need it at the

She ran around pulling plugs, she called him up
Maybe now they shouldn't meet, he said that he would brave the
She met him at the door with a blanket and a
Saying, "I heard it on the radio, I had to turn my off"

He said, "You're not the only one, the streets were dark
It was another century
With dim lamps and candles lighting up the icy
And the clouds and a moon"

She said, "What kind of people make a where you can't see the sky
And you can't feel the
I you something, I have this feeling that this city's dying"
He said, "It's not dying, it's the who are dying"

She said, "Yes yes, I think the people are dying and cares
We had all technology, our dreams were bold and vague
And then one city got bad planners, one got the plague"

He asked, "Why did you here?" She said, "For the job, for the job
And I've been so lonely here, so lonely, no one I can talk to
And I don't know your brother"

He smiled and said, "Sometimes at night I out by the river
The city's one big town, the turns it upside down
People found this city they love other people
They want their secretaries, they their power lunches"

"And about tonight, I heard the same newscast you did
I unplugged everything, I looked out the window and I think the city
I watched as one by one the lights off
So could give their power to the hospital"

ate in silence while she thought this over
They sat together in a room in the Mortal City
in their blankets so they wouldn't get spaghetti on them

Then came the awkward moment dinner, what to do
The ice was still falling, the streets still dangerous
The were not running and this neighborhood was not the greatest

They looked at the space where a couch would've been
She felt her stomach sink, she felt she could hardly think

She said, "I never should have rented this apartment in the Mortal
The cold comes through every I put my hand up to
The radiator doesn't work, I to use electric heat"

That settled it, they both sleep in her bed, it was a matter of survival
She out teeshirts, sweatshirts, sweatpants, socks, hats
If there was ever any of what would happen in that bed tonight

There was no question now, they barely move
They were up like ornaments waiting for another season

They lay in bed, listened to the pelting ice
He said, "My brother's not a bad guy, just quiet
I wished you this city", she said, "Maybe I do"

"I I have a special kind of hearing tonight
I hear the neighbors upstairs, I hear my heart
I one thousand hearts beating at the hospital"

And one thousand hearts by bedsides waiting
Saying that's my in the white gown
We are not lost in the City
We are not lost in the City