Luyện nghe bài hát This Strange Engine

There was a boy who into this world
At the of a holy woman in a holy place
He wore a red coat and walked a
Saw reflected in the mirror of the lakes

Lived in the shadow of the
the smells of disinfectant
Dusty old and the polished wood of his bed

No more than a baby feeding on the river
the hands of his mother
And the wax bag of yesterday's bread

And his on the other side of the world
On the ship's and some far away tide
With the silent dry tear of home from abroad
In his far away eyes, in his far eyes

The smell of the wax on the wooden
of polish and soap
No children to or to play with
Rows of empty for the coats

An upright piano and the boys in the
Still remind him of before he was born
Remind him of before he was breathing
Strange visions of God

Turn the cities into families, into villages of
in the air while they're sleeping
With houses invisible
Send to me the ghosts of
Whispering, "You're the one"

And ever I was a boy
I never felt that I
Like everything did to me
Was an to see

How I cope with the illusion?
In which direction I jump
I do it all the same
As the actors in the

Or would I it back at them
And not get caught up in their
And live to my own
And not be used, not be

To the fundamental truths
It was going to some time
Thirty summers down the line

The wisdom of each year
Seems to serve to confuse
Seems to serve only to

Daddy came out the and took us
to his dirty gray hometown
And he worked on a coal mine for National Service
So that he be around

There was a purple in the chrome
Of the exhaust of his Triumph
And a warmth of oil and and the thrill
Of the hard corner holding

From the horizon came home the navy to the mine
the horizon to buried alive
Took his underground
his treasure in his faraway eyes

And one day as the boy lay
In the sunshine of a remembered afternoon
A cloud of bees no particular aim and no brain
the boy, decided that his time had come

Came down out of the sky, him in the face
Again and again, blue pain, screaming like
Intravenous Jesus like chosen
Something with no brain, pain
It's happening again, happening again

Oh, Mummy, Daddy, will you sit a while me?
Oh Mummy, Daddy, will you jog my
Tell me tales of Montego Bay, table mountain
Flying fish, banana spiders, of paint

And the sun on the
Setting like an ember to deep water
crimson to black
But coming back on the horizon

The blue pain fades to a
Where it fade, it stayed blue
And stirred his red heart to this strange engine
This love, this

This love, inconvenient
Blind, blood-diamond, puzzle

This love, this blind,
This I don't understand
That knows no faith and
And fails and again

at the sea
The night's dark
For one time and bleeds
And and dies for you

And and is to blame
And is
And is not the
And is true, is
Is true, is and lies
Is true