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Lyrics for Act Two by Hammill Peter:
| | | Artist: | Hammill Peter |
| | Album: | The Fall Of The House Of Usher | | Track: | Act Two | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 191 | | | | Lyrics: | THE VOICES House. Wet Vaults. Caissons. We breathe...
OF THE Undercroft. Abutments. Stones.
Wood. Breathe...
HOUSE Buttresses. Bressumers. Spandrels. We Breathe...
Columns and
Pillars. Shafts. Arches. Capitals. Breathe....
We breathe. We are waiting.
We rise. We are waiting.
We are Usher. House of Usher.
Pilasters. Quoins.
Piers.
Spandrels and columns that shaft through the years.
House of Usher.
Wainscots. Stairs. Balusters. Cusps and Cornices.
Spandrels and Columns the capital
years.
House of Usher.
We breathe. We are waiting
We rise. We
are waiting.
We are Usher. House of Usher.
Beams. Corbels. Joists.
Kingposts.
Copings and Chimney-shafts.
Ridge-ribs. Struts. Stanchions.
Parapets.
Pediments. Mansards and Gargoyles.
The eaves. The dripping
eaves...
Cupola. Finials. Gables. Tiles. Lead...
We breathe. We are
waiting.
We rise. We are waiting.
We are Usher. House of Usher.
We are
Keystone. We are Usher.
RODERICK USHER
("The Sleeper") The lady sleeps. oh, may her
sleep
which is enduring so be deep!
Heaven hold her in its sacred keep!
This chamber changed for one more holy,
this bed for one of melancholy.
I pray
to God that she may lie
forever with unopened eye
while the dim, sheeted ghosts
go by.
My love, she sleeps. Oh, may her sleep
as it is lasting so be
deep!
Soft may the worms around her creep!
Far in the forest, dim and old,
now may some tall vault enfold her;
some vault that oft hath flung its black
and winged panels fluttering back
triumphant o'er the crested palls
of her grand
family funerals....
USHER MONTRESOR
I didn't
mean to interrupt...
Montresor, you came!
Did you think I'd ignore your
letter?
Montresor, you're here!
Come let me help you with your coat.
Sit down and
rest yourself.
Oh, it's so good to see you here!
Now tell me all your news...
I see
you've changed a bit, my friend...
Now won't you have a drink...
Yes, yes
but one thing at a time!
First you must tell me what...
But I expect I
too have changed.
How many years could it be now
since last we said farewell?
It must be ten years
since our last meeting,
Yes, it must be ten
years
since our last meeting since our last meeting.
Tell me what is
wrong?
Your letter spoke
of a malady;
some desperate
trial
you could not face alone...
Oh, no, you tell me all your doings!
Tell me.
Tell me
how you pass your days how you pass your days
Tell
me
from the beginning. from the beginning
Tell me
everything
everything
that's happened
since we went our since we went our
separate ways.
separate ways.
Look at me...
I have not left these walls
these three
years,
I do not dare to do so!
I am imprisoned and fear is my gaoler.
Each word I
speak
seems too dangerous.
My slightest act could bring about
the very thing I
fear
But fear of what?
Hush, and I shall tell you...
tell
you...
USHER I shun the light,
creep in the gloom like a toad, a white
worm,
tortured by the faintest gleam of sun.
I hear...
oh God, if you
could only know the things I hear!
I hear the lake sucking at the walls,
I
hear bats breathing
I hear the sky moan to join with the slime!
And
this,
all this like thunder to me,
like thunder!
My senses
scream at me:
Sight... Touch... Sight... Touch...
Sound and Taste... Sound and
Scent,
All torment and claw at my sanity.
There is no hiding place for
me,
for even in the quietest of my rooms,
I hear the walls in
conversation;
I hear the palpitations of my heart;
I feel all that lives and
does not move
and know it knows my feeling.
My only peace lies in my
music
and then only because it drowns out
all other sounds and
souls...
You may think that I am mad, but it is not so.
My senses reel
beneath the blow of feathers falling
and more...
But no, I see you do not
understand.
MONTRESOR Oh, my poor dear friend,
you must see you are not
well.
I've read of this before,
I think it's called Hyperaesthesis.
I'm no doctor, but it's clear
your nerves have gone to pieces.
You need to get
away,
you need a holiday,
you need a change of air!
You need an ocean
cruise,
you need to be amused!
I tell you plain, this House
to me
seems most unhealthy.
You're unattached, you're free to go, you're
wealthy.
USHER MONTRESOR THE CHORUS
Leave this
House.
Leave this House.
Leave this House
and come away.
Leave this House
I cannot!
Leave this House!
I cannot!
Leave
this House!
Here I must stay.
Here I must stay.
You are wasting
your time.
He will never
leave...
I can
never
leave here
therefore do
not ask me
say no more I've heard of this
before
and let me be I think it's called Hyperaesthesis
I can never I'm no doctor
but it's clear
leave here your nerves have gone to pieces.
therefore do your nerves
have gone to pieces.
not ask me.
Say no more
and let me be
I cannot leave
He cannot leave
The House is I
The House is he
We are as
one
They are as one
And I would die
and so must die
Now you must leave
I He cannot leave
cannot Now you must
fly
leave The House is he
Now you must run
The They are
as one
House is No-one will die
I And so must die
I cannot
leave
Now you must leave
He cannot leave
The House is I
Now you must fly
The House is he
We are as one
Now you must
run
and so must die
and so must die
No-one will
die
USHER MONTRESOR THE HOUSE
We shall
not let
him go!
We shall not
Leave
let him go!
Do not torture me! this We shall not
Do not try to persuade! House
let him go!
We shall not
Leave let him go!
It only
brings me grief this We shall not
House let him go!
Leave this
House We shall not
I cannot leave let him go!
We shall not
let him go!
shall not let him go!
USHER MONTRESOR THE
CHORUS THE HOUSE
Leave this House
I cannot
Leave this House
I
cannot
Leave this House Leave this House
and come with me We shall not
let him go.
Leave this House
I cannot Never, never
Leave
this House never!
I cannot
Leave this House
and come with me Never!
Never, never,
never!
Never! Never, never,
never!
I can never We are bound
leave here together
therefore
do for the last time so never
not ask me I entreat you He shall he shall
say no
more never leave never leave
and let me be. We are bound
together
for the last time so never
I entreat you He shall he
shall
Leave! never leave never leave.
Do not
talk to me
Never
do not try never
to persuade Leave! never
He
shall never
never leave
Leave this house
Oh Montresor
never never
I beg of you never never
I can never never
never
leave never never
I can never never never
leave this house Leave
this house never never
I can never You are wasting never never
leave this
house Leave this house you time never never
I can never he will never never
never
leave this house Leave! leave never never
never!
The
House
is I.
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