[Intro] [Slow and Dark Orchestral and Percussion Instrumental Opening with Build-Up] [Verse 1] Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore- While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. “’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door- Only this and nothing more.” [Dark Guitar Riff] [Chorus] Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.” Echoes in the chamber door, Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.” Echoes in the chamber door. [Verse 2] Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow;-vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow-sorrow for the lost Lenore- For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore- Nameless here for evermore. [Dark Orchestral and Percussion Instrumental] [Chorus] Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.” Echoes in the chamber door, Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.” Echoes in the chamber door. [Verse 3] Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer, “Sir,” said I, “or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore; But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you”-here I opened wide the door;- Darkness there and nothing more. [Bridge] Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before; But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token, And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, “Lenore?” [Dark Guitar Riff] [Chorus] Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.” Echoes in the chamber door, Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.” Echoes in the chamber door. [Verse 4] Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning, Soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before. “Surely,” said I, “surely that is something at my window lattice; Let me see, then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore- Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore;- ’Tis the wind and nothing more!” [Dark Orchestral and Percussion Instrumental] [Chorus] Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.” Echoes in the chamber door, Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.” Echoes in the chamber door. [Verse 5] Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore; Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he; But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door- Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door- Perched, and sat, and nothing more. [Dark Guitar Riff] [Bridge] Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, “Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,” I said, “art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore- Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!” Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.” [Chorus] Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.” Echoes in the chamber door, Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.” Echoes in the chamber door. [Dark Orchestral and Percussion Instrumental] [Verse 6] Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken, “Doubtless,” said I, “what it utters is its only stock and store Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore- Till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore Of ‘Never-nevermore’.” [Chorus] Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.” Echoes in the chamber door, Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.” Echoes in the chamber door. [Dark Guitar Riff] [Verse 7] “But the Raven still beguiling all my fancy into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird, and bust and door; Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore- What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking ‘Nevermore.’” [Bridge] This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom’s core; This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion’s velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o’er, But whose velvet-violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o’er, She shall press, ah, nevermore! [Dark Orchestral and Percussion Instrumental] [Chorus] Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.” Echoes in the chamber door, Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.” Echoes in the chamber door. [Pause] [Verse 8] “Prophet!” said I, “thing of evil!-prophet still, if bird or devil!- By that Heaven that bends above us-by that God we both adore- Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore- Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.” Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.” [Dark Guitar Riff] [Chorus] Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.” Echoes in the chamber door, Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.” Echoes in the chamber door. [Verse 9] “Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!” I shrieked, upstarting- “Get thee back into the tempest and the Night’s Plutonian shore! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken! Leave my loneliness unbroken!-quit the bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!” Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.” [Dark Orchestral and Percussion Instrumental] [Chorus] Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.” Echoes in the chamber door, Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.” Echoes in the chamber door. [Pause] [Dark Guitar Riff] [Outro] And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o’er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor; And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted-nevermore! [Dark Orchestral and Percussion with Dark Guitar Riff Finale] [Ends]
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