Luyện nghe bài hát The Cabinet of Kuniyoshi Kaneko

Leopards prowl the studios of the Duc de Berry's great
Where Cocteau's beast rehearses Beauty's
Lewis Carroll marks his diary a small white stone
As Kuniyoshi Kaneko prepares to

to the shells my darling, what you hear is not the sea
But whispering, malicious human
Adults who wish to know the Duc de Berry's great chateau
And hate the of childhood and of art

We who paint or photograph to your dying in its path
And fix you in the permanence of
stop the prattlers prattling
The rattlesnakes who, rattling, see in every living thing
See ugliness in living thing

The calculated insolence of little girls in sailor
Whose faces seem to say more than know
Appetites and for the libertine in all of us
From the cabinet of Kaneko

to the studio where Alice Liddell plays the roles
Of tousle-headed gypsy girls
The Reverend Charles L. Dodgson from the of his camera
her for himself and for the world

Children torn by cruel desires, the of murderers
Who hack their little bodies to the
live to tell the tale, astonishingly fit and well
They couple in the chateau

We who paint or photograph to stop your in its path
And fix you in the of spring
stop the prattlers prattling
The who, rattling, see ugliness in every living thing
In every lovely living

A looking glass is not a
A painted is not a girl
In games there can be no forbidden
In life considerate, in art the Devil's advocate
Why deny that has wings
In remain considerate, in art the Devil incarnate
Why the siren when it sings?
In games there be no forbidden things

So watch the wall my while the gentlemen go by
And your diary with a small white stone
Little hearts of marzipan and lacquer work old Japan
In the cabinet of Kaneko