Luyện nghe bài hát Mortal City

She never should have rented this in the Mortal City
The cold comes though every she puts her hand up to
The radiator's broken so she has to use electric

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 dinner sometime, was tonight

The radio gave updates on the ice storm while she made the
They said from all the talk you drive or even walk and this just in
We're asking everyone to turn off their power, need it at the hospital

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 and a candle
Saying, "I it on the radio, I had to turn my power off"

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

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

She said, "Yes yes, I think the people are dying and nobody
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 I walk out by the river
The city's one big town, the water turns it upside
People found this city because they love other
They want secretaries, they want their power lunches"

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

ate in silence while she thought this over
They sat together in a dark in the Mortal City
in their blankets 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 still
The cabs were not running and this neighborhood was not the

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

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

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

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

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

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

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