Luyện nghe bài hát Still Life

(Hammill)

Citadel reverberates to a voices, now

What have we
What have we to be?
Now, all history is to the syllables of
our
nothing can ever be the
now the are here.
At the time it seemed a reasonable
to all the force
of life the threat of death,
but soon we found that boredom and
are not negative, but all the law we know,
and are will and words like survival.

at immunity from all age, all fear and
all end...
why do I
Our essence is
and all taste is now drained,
and though purity is
it us sterile,
living through the of years,
a laugh as as any tear;
living, if you claim all
entails is breathing, eating, defecating,
screwing, drinking,
spewing, sleeping, sinking down and down
and passing away time
no longer has any meaning.

Take away the of death and all you're
with is a round of make-believe.
Marshal every breath and though you're
ultimately by endless ecstasy
it's still the ring by you hope to be

to marry the girl who will you forever-
crazy, and plainly
that is not enough.

is the dullest and bluntest of pains,
such that my eyes never close feeling it

What abject demands an end
to all of infinity?
If we have gained, how do we now the

What have we bargained, and what we

What have we relinquished, never knowing it
was

What thoughts now of fast the line,
death and time?
we had is gone,
everything we laboured for and more
than earthly reveals the hollow ring
of false and false deliverance.

But now the bed is made,
the dowry has been
the toothless, haggard of eternity
now me between the sheets
to with her withered body - my wife.
forever,
forever,
hers
in life.