Luyện nghe bài hát Still Life

(Hammill)

Citadel reverberates to a voices, now

What have we
What we chosen to be?
Now, all is reduced to the syllables of
our
nothing can be the same:
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 and inertia
are not negative, but all the law we know,
and dead are will and words survival.

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

away the threat of death and all you're
left with is a of make-believe.
Marshal sullen breath and though you're
ultimately bored by endless
it's still the ring by you hope to be

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

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

What abject despair an end
to all things of
If we have gained, how do we now the

What have we bargained, and what we

What have we relinquished, even knowing it
was

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

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