Luyện nghe bài hát This Strange Engine

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

Lived in the shadow of the
the smells of disinfectant
Dusty old and the polished 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 railings and far away tide
With the silent dry tear of thoughts from abroad
In his far away eyes, in his far eyes

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

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

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

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

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

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

To find the truths
It was going to take some
five summers down the line

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

came out the navy 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 magical purple in the
Of the exhaust of his Triumph
And a of oil and metal and the thrill
Of the hard corner tight

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

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

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

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

And the sun on the
like an ember thrown to deep water
From to black
But coming back on the horizon

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

love, this inconvenient
Blind, blood-diamond, puzzle

This love, blind, blood-diamond
puzzle I don't understand
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 and is to blame
And is
And is not the
And is true, is
Is true, is and lies
Is true