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 a bulldog
Saw them reflected in the of the lakes

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

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

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

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

An upright 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 into families, into villages of
Hovering in the air they're sleeping
With their houses
to me the ghosts of Christmas
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
Would I do it all the
As the in the game?

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

To the fundamental truths
It was to take some time
Thirty five summers down the

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

Daddy out the navy and took us
Away to his dirty gray
And he worked down on a coal mine for Service
So that he be around

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

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

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

Came out of the sky, stung him in the face
Again and again, pain, screaming like baptism
Intravenous Jesus like chosen
Something with no brain, pain
It's happening again, happening 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, spiders, pots of paint

And the sun on the
Setting like an thrown to deep water
From crimson to
But coming tomorrow on the horizon

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

This love, inconvenient
Blind, blood-diamond, puzzle

This love, this blind,
This puzzle I understand
knows no faith and tries
And and tries again

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

And and is to blame
And is
And is not the
And is true, is
Is true, is and lies
[Incomprehensible] Is