Luyện nghe bài hát When I Was Cruel no. 2

I through the spotlight glare
I out into thin air
Into a so rarefied
"Here the bride"

Not quite aside, they snide, "she's four"
"There's number just by the door"
Those in the know, don't even her, they go one better
"She was selling speedboats in a trade when I met her"

at her now
She's starting to
She like she was born to it
But it was so much
I was cruel

She out her arms to me
"another melody?"
So she can dance her husband out on the
The captains of industry lie there where they fall

In an and pale carnation
A satin and velvet elevation
She straightens the headdress of her spouse
While hers recalls a honey

There'll be no left to drown
Early in the morning in evening gown
But it was so much
When I was

The entrance was arranged with hostesses and ushers
Who turned out to be the younger wives nursing crushes
Parting the waves of those few feint
Fingers offered are now too heavy to extend

The ghostly first wife glides up on stage whispering to raucous
family secrets out to flunkies and castrato walkers
See that
Watch scene
the "Dancing Queen"

Two editors like playground sneaks
a book on which of them is going to last the week
One of calls to me and he says, "I know you"
"You me this tattoo back in eighty-two"
"You were a spoilt child then a record to plug"
"And I was a shaven-headed thug"
"Things haven't really that much"
"One of us is still paid too much"

are some things I can't report
The of his last retort
But it was so easier
When I was

at me now
She's starting to
She looks she was born to it
Ah, but it was so much
When I was