Luyện nghe bài hát This Strange Engine

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

Lived in the shadow of the
With the of disinfectant
Dusty old leather and the wood of his bed

No more than a feeding swans on the river
Holding the of his mother
And the wax paper bag of bread

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

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

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

Turn the cities into families, into of souls
Hovering in the air while sleeping
With their invisible
to me the ghosts of Christmas
Whispering, "You're the one"

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

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

Or would I it back at them
And not get up in their rules?
And according to my own
And not be used, not be

To find the truths
It was going to some time
Thirty five summers the line

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

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

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

From the horizon came home from the navy to the
From the horizon to alive
his dream underground
Buried his treasure in his eyes

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

Came down out of the sky, stung him in the
Again and again, pain, screaming like baptism
Jesus like being chosen
Something with no brain, blue
happening again, it's happening again

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

And the sun on the
like an ember thrown to deep water
From crimson to
But coming back tomorrow on the

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

This love, inconvenient
Blind, blood-diamond, puzzle

love, this blind, blood-diamond
This puzzle I don't
That no faith and tries
And and tries again

at the sea
The dark deep
For one time and bleeds
And bleeds and for you

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