Luyện nghe bài hát The Telescope Reading (Of Course)

He lived
his books and his records and his telescope
with all the doors
days upon each other one by tedious one
until the pressure finally created a diamond thought
and he was sad
Ive every book,
Ive heard song,
and Ive seen every star the safety of my bedroom.
and i am empty.
in defeat he forward with his eyes still pressed against the telescope
just then his lungs to expand,
he rapidly,
alternating his between squinting
and making his eyes as wide as
he out, "of course"
all the hours spent looking up
it never crossed his to veer straight ahead.
He spent days upon taking it all in
he say grow to become men
and men to become fools.
he saw hope, beauty, war, strength, weakness, chaos,
he watched until he could recite each from memory,
eventually he wrote his own books what he saw
and he made his own songs what he thought he had heard
almost he himself believed what he was creating to be true
until lie upon lie piled on top of
until the finally created a pearl-like thought
he to the world,
Ive all of your lives
and Ive all of your conversations,
and i am hungry.

In frustration,
he to his knees
and began to bang his head against the old door
"of course" he out
and without
ha up,
put on his coat and hat, and the knob.
but before hid first step even hit the
he was faced with the most unexpected of
one that he only figure to be
what his favorite books and records to as love.
"where are you going?" she him
"i know"
"me too" she
ill take you there, she extended her hand
and him away with her.

They walked until their bled
their journey she told him all the places she had been
and all the she had met along the way.
a new emotion to unfold inside of him
one he thought he had overheard in a conversation looking through his
it was the fear
why she choose me? he thought.
i so little
not to lose her interest,
he began telling her stories he she might be impressed by
but all did was make her question his strength and ability to battle the enemies
that she knew surely jump out at them one day
but she still kept her faith in him and they continued

what amazing they saw
they in dark caves,
warmed their by the brightest of fires,
and played with brilliant children in the blue sea
but amidst all that gorgeousness,
their began to slip.
first from palms, then to fingertips, to nothingness.
they still,
she faced south, and he west.
he out to her,
I'm leaving now, and i blame you for the we're in
and through all of our adventures Ive done wrong
and though taught me how to breathe,
I'm taking my new voice and leaving you hear nothing.

She looked and cried out to him,
we a map together that you promised you would follow with me.
i too am scared,
after you stole my strength and made it your own.
but i am still reaching for hand,
it will fit more perfectly than ever
if you will only reach to me.
but he didn't back, he was vain and confused.
he tried to make a new map, but he didn't where to put the "X" anymore.
so he in circles,
he his rhythm,
he by the fire,
and he in the sea,
he made himself what he had the most,
incomplete.
and even though the was his, and his alone,
he her for that too.

but the whole time she him
looking for fallen twigs and fresh footprints to see where he was
but all he left in his path were written in the dirt with a broken stick
scrawled lies of and shifted blame,
until one day he the word "help" when he needed her most.
but by then she had stopped trying to read his
and sense of his misery.
so he back to where he started,
back to his books and his and his telescope,

and broken,
he reached the edge of his street
to find her waiting for him.
and upon seeing her smile,
he immediately knew he had done,
he what he had lost,
he how sorry he was.
for the time she was real to him.
they sat and spoke about everything should have
in the beginning of their
and through all the tears he learned that she had walking her entire life
and that she wasn't for him to go into the world with her at all
no, she was in fact waiting for him to invite her his house
so she could read his books, hear his records and look the telescope
behind the safety of his door.

a fool he thought
i didn't realize that with all this time i spent looking out window
you were there looking back at it.
at me, at this, at us.
i had what you had been traveling these roads searching for.
she crumbled under the of hearing her own truth.
and through honesty,
they were both as strong as can be
and now under the relief of each note of
no thought appeared to them, a feeling.
and he to her,
Ive seen efforts,
and i can feel your for me,
and i am whole.
i still have places to visit and mistakes to in private
but my home and make it your own,
recite lines from my favorite in the garden,
hear the closest to my life while you sleep in my bed,
and through me waving at you through my telescope.
he his hand and he rested it on her chest,
and he drew an X her heart.
"of course" he thought.
he slowly the old wooden door
and he locked it him.