Luyện nghe bài hát Self Evident

(inspired by the WTC disaster)

yes,
us are just poems
90% metaphor
with a of meaning
approaching
and once upon a
we were
down the throat of a giraffe
yes, down the long hallway
what the p.a. announcement says
yes, down the long stairs
with the whiskey of
fermented and
to minutes
down our throats
down the
the stairs
in a so tall
it will always be there
yes, part of a pair
there on the bow of ark
the most prestigious
just back parked
a perfectly blue sky
on a morning
in its Indian summer
on the day that
fell to its
after around for a century
without saying you
or

and the shock was
and the was deafening
between the setup and the line
'cause we were all on time for work day
we all boarded plane for to fly
and then while the fires raging
we all climbed up on the
and we all held hands
and jumped the sky

and borough looked up when it heard the first blast
and then every dumb action movie was surpassed
and the exodus by foot and motorcar
looked more like war than I've seen so far
so far
so far
so fierce and
a poetic so far gone
that every jackass newscaster was struck and stumbling
over 'oh my god' and 'this is and on and on
and I'll tell you what, while at it
you can the pentagon
the propaganda
keep each and TV
been trying to convince me
to
in prep school punk's plan to perpetuate retribution
perpetuate
even as the blue toxic of our lesson in retribution
is still in the air
and ash on our shoes
and there's ash in our
and there's a fine silt on mantle
from kitchen to Brooklyn
and the streets are full of
sudden twists and near
and soon every open bar is crammed to the
tales of narrowly averted disasters
and the whiskey is
like before
as all the country
folks just their heads
and

so here's a toast to all the folks who in Palestine

El

here's a toast to the folks living on the ridge reservation
under the cold gaze of mt. Rushmore

here's a toast to all those and doctors
who daily women with a choice
who stand a threat the size of Oklahoma City
just to to a young woman's voice

here's a toast to all the folks on row right now
awaiting the guillotine
who are shackled there with dread and can only escape their heads
to find in the form of a dream

take away our playstations
and we are a world nation
under the thumb of some blue blood son
who stole the oval office and that phony
I
it don't take a
to look and see the weather
Jeb said deliver Florida, folks
and boy did he

and we these truths to be self evident:
#1 George W. Bush is not
#2 America is not a true
#3 the media is not me
'cause I am a poem hyper-distillation
got no room for a lie so verbose
I'm out over my whole human family
and I'm raising my glass in a

here's to our last drink of fuels
let us vow to get off of this
shoo away the swarms of planes
and that train ticket we lost
once upon a time the line followed the river
and peeked all the backyards
and the was waving
the graffiti was us
from brick and bridges
we were over ridges
valleys
under
I dream of like Duke Ellington
in my own car
I of waiting on the tall blonde wooden benches
in a grand station with grace
and standing out on the platform
and feeling the air on my

give back the its distant whistle
give the darkness back its
the big oil companies the finger finally
and how to rock-n-roll
yes, the lessons are all around us and a change is there
so it's time to pick through the rubble, the streets
and the air
get our government to pull its big out of the sand
of else's desert
put it in its pants
and the hypocritical chants of
freedom

when one lone phone rang
in two and one
at ten nine
on one one
which is the number we all
when that lone phone right off the wall
off our desk and down the long hall
down the stairs
in a building so
the whole world turned
just to it fall

and we're at it
remember the first time
the
the Ryder
the garage?
the princess that didn't even feel the
joking around in our apartment on avenue D?

can you imagine how many paper coffee cups would have to change design
following a reversal of the New York skyline?!

it was a joke, of
it was a
at the
and that was just a few ago
so let the show
that the FBI was all over case
the plot was obvious and in everybody's face
and scoping scene

the CIA
or is it
countless crimes against humanity
with this of eventuality
as its
for abuse expensive abuse
and it have a clue
look, another window to see
way up
on the 104th

key
another
10%
90%
3000 some disguised as people
on an too perfect day
must be than poems
in asshole's passion play
so now your job
and my job
to make it way
to make they didn't die in vain
sshhhhhh....
baby
hear the