Luyện nghe bài hát When I Was Cruel no. 2

I exit through the glare
I stepped out thin air
a perfume so rarefied
"Here the bride"

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

at her now
She's to yawn
She looks she was born to it
But it was so easier
When I was

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

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

There'll be no sorrows to drown
Early in the morning in your evening
But it was so easier
When I was

The hall was arranged with hostesses and ushers
Who turned out to be the wives nursing schoolgirl crushes
Parting the waves of few feint friends
Fingers once offered are now too to extend

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

Two newspaper like playground sneaks
a book on which of them is going to last the week
One of them to me and he says, "I know you"
"You gave me this tattoo in eighty-two"
"You were a spoilt child with a record to plug"
"And I was a seaside thug"
"Things haven't really changed much"
"One of us is getting paid too much"

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

at me now
She's to yawn
She looks like she was to it
Ah, but it was so easier
When I was