Luyện nghe bài hát Mortal City

She never should have 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 date the brother
Of the guy she next to
He lived a couple away, he listened, he had things to say
She asked him up for sometime, sometime was tonight

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

She ran around pulling plugs, then she him up
Maybe now shouldn't meet, he said that he would brave the streets
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 one, the streets were dark tonight
It was another century
With dim lamps and candles up the icy trees
And the clouds and a moon"

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

She said, "Yes yes, I the people are dying and nobody cares
We had all this technology, our dreams bold and vague
And one city got bad planners, one city got the plague"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"I think I 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 their bedsides
Saying that's my in the white gown
We are not lost in the City
We are not lost in the City