Luyện nghe bài hát My Sister

Do you remember my sister? How many mistakes did she make with those
Blinking eyes? I couldn't work it out. I swear she read your mind, your
Life, the depths of your soul at one glance. Maybe she was herself
Away,

I am, this is me
I am yours and about me, everything you see
If only you look enough
I could
Our life was a pillow-fight. We'd stand on the quilt, our hands clenched
Ready. Her with her milky teeth, so for her age, and a Stanley knife in
Her hand. She sliced the tyres on my and I couldn't forgive her

She went blind at the age of five. We'd at the bedroom window and she'd
Get me to her what I saw. I'd describe the houses opposite, the little
Patch of grass next to the path, the gate with its rotten hinges wedged
Open that Dad was always going to fix. She'd there quiet for a moment. I
Thought she was trying to develop the in her own head. Then she'd say

I can see twinkly stars
Like Christmas tree in faraway windows
of brightly coloured rocks
Floating around orange and mustard
I can see huge tiger fishes
Chasing tiny blue and yellow
All tails and and bubbles
I'd look at the house opposite, and close the curtains
She burned down the house when she was ten. I was away with the scouts
The fireman said she'd smoking in bed - the old story, I thought. The cat
And our mum died in the flames, so Dad took us to stay with our in the
Country. He went to London to find us a new house. We never saw him again

On her birthday she fell down the well in our Aunt's garden and
Broke her head. been drinking heavily. On her recovery her sight
Returned, a fluke of nature everyone said. That's she said she'd never
Blink again. I would tell her she started at me, with her eyes wide and
Watery, that they reminded me of the she fell into. She liked this, it
Made her

She moved in with a gym teacher when she was fifteen, all he was. He
his job when it all came out, and couldn't get another one. Not in that
Kind of small town. Everybody knew everyone else's business. My sister
Hold her high, though. She said she was in love. They were together for
Five until one day he lost his temper. He hit over the back of the neck
With his bullworker. She lost the use of the right of her body. He got
Three years and was out in months. We saw him a while later, he was
Coaching a non-league football team in a Cornwall seaside town. I think
He recognized her. My sister had put on a lot of weight from being in a
All the time. She'd get me to pins and stub out cigarettes in her right
Hand. laugh like mad because it didn't hurt. Her left hand was pretty
Good though. We'd have arm matches, I'd have to use both arms and
She'd beat me

We her when she was 32. Me and my Aunt, the vicar, and the man who dug
The hole. She said she didn't want to be cremated and wanted a coffin so
The worms could get to her quickly. She said she the idea of it, though I
it was because of what happened to the cat, and our mum