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 could read mind, your
Life, the depths of your soul at one glance. Maybe she was stripping
Away,

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

She went blind at the age of five. We'd stand at the bedroom and she'd
Get me to tell her what I saw. I'd 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
she was trying to develop the images in her own head. Then she'd say

I can see twinkly stars
Like Christmas tree lights in faraway
Rings of brightly 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 grey opposite, and close the curtains
She burned the house when she was ten. I was away camping with the scouts
The fireman said she'd been in bed - the old story, I thought. The cat
And our mum died in the flames, so Dad us to stay with our Aunt in the
Country. He went to London to find us a new house. We never saw him again

On her thirteenth she fell down the well in our Aunt's garden and
her head. She'd been drinking heavily. On her recovery her sight
Returned, a fluke of nature everyone said. That's when she said she'd
Blink again. I would tell her when she at me, with her eyes wide and
Watery, that they reminded me of the well she into. She liked this, it
Made her

She moved in with a gym when she was fifteen, all muscles he was. He
Lost his job when it all came out, and couldn't get another one. Not in
Kind of small town. Everybody knew everyone else's business. My would
Hold her head high, though. She said she was in love. They together for
Five years one day he lost his temper. He hit over the back of the neck
his bullworker. She lost the use of the right side 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 in a Cornwall seaside town. I don't think
He her. My sister had put on a lot of weight from being in a chair
All the time. get me to stick pins and stub out cigarettes in her right
Hand. She'd laugh like mad because it didn't hurt. Her hand was pretty
Good though. have arm wrestling 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 a cheap coffin so
The worms get to her quickly. She said she liked the idea of it, though I
Thought it was of what happened to the cat, and our mum