Luyện nghe bài hát This Strange Engine

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

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

No more than a baby feeding swans on the
Holding the of his mother
And the wax paper bag of yesterday's

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

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

An piano and the boys in the choir
remind him of just before he was born
Remind him of just before he was
misty visions of God

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

And since I was a boy
I felt that I belonged
everything they did to me
Was an to see

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

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

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

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

Daddy came out the navy and us
Away to his gray hometown
And he worked down on a mine for National Service
So that he could be

There was a magical purple in the
Of the of his Triumph motorbike
And a warmth of oil and metal and the
Of the hard holding tight

From the horizon came from the navy to the mine
the horizon to buried alive
Took his underground
Buried his 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
Found the boy, decided his time had come

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

Oh, Mummy, Daddy, will you sit a 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
Setting like an ember thrown to deep
crimson to black
But coming tomorrow on the horizon

The blue fades to a point
Where it doesn't fade, it stayed
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 no faith and tries
And fails and again

at the sea
The night's deep
For one last and bleeds
And and dies for you

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