Luyện nghe bài hát Still Life

(Hammill)

Citadel reverberates to a voices, now

What we become?
What have we to be?
Now, all history is reduced to the of
our
nothing can ever be the
now the are here.
At the time it a reasonable course
to all the force
of life without the of death,
but we found that boredom and inertia
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 the millions of years,
a laugh as as any tear;
living, if you claim all
that is breathing, eating, defecating,
screwing, drinking,
spewing, sleeping, ever down and down
and ultimately passing time
which no has any meaning.

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

to marry the girl who will you forever-
it's crazy, and
simply is not enough.

What is the dullest and of pains,
that my eyes never close without feeling it

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

What have we bargained, and what we

What have we relinquished, never knowing it
was

What thoughts now of holding the line,
defying and time?
we had is gone,
everything we laboured for and more
than things reveals the hollow ring
of hope and false deliverance.

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