Luyện nghe bài hát The Million - Pound - Semi - Detached

Haven't we come a way
newly-weds in our bed-sitter flat?
We skimped and scraped every
For a payment on our semi-detached.
New for all the young hopefuls,
A garden suburb mortgage attached,
Oh, look at us now, sale all agreed, now it's time to exchange the
With the people who us a million-pound semi.

out of national service,
Demob suits and back and sides,
And saw the bomb turned air-raid shelters,
Where families lived all of their lives.
Then the nation built a utopia,
With on the outside, oh,
at them now, they've come a long way, they are affluent and bursting with pride.
Soon we'll be sitting that million-pound semi-detached,
Detached, in our semi-detached.
Looking back at the of this million-pound semi.

Two up two down, a garden, that was the dream,
Two kids, a cat and a dog, was the scheme.
Then the both grew up and got married and moved out of home,
we were strangers again, together alone.
Look at us now, are we like,
alone in our million-pound semi-detached?

They're all early retirement, the sum total of all of their lives.
Now the country is fat inflation, immigration has helped us survive.
Once an home was his castle,
Now a freehold investment to buy, oh,
Look at us now, our debts are all paid, and the empire has struck back.
the proud owners of a one-million-pound semi-detached,
So detached in our semi-detached.
A new generation is and starting anew,
And learning by all mistakes the way people do.
all the young hopefuls we're buying the future from you,
We hope that one day understand what you've both been through.
at us now, what are we like,
Sitting alone, in our semi-detached?
Look at us now, are we like,
Sitting alone, in our semi-detached?