[00:40.35]Once upon a midnight dreary
[00:41.66]As I pondered, weak and weary
[00:43.47]Over many a quaint and curious
[00:44.99]Volume of forgotten lore
[00:47.38]While I nodded, nearly napping
[00:49.06]Suddenly there came a tapping
[00:50.34]As of someone gently rapping
[00:51.99]Rapping at my chamber door
[00:54.33]"'Tis some visitor," I muttered
[00:55.56]"tapping at my chamber door
[00:56.65]Only this and nothing more."
[00:59.55]Muttering I got up weakly
[01:00.64]Always I've had trouble sleeping
[01:02.30]Stumbling upright my mind racing
[01:04.73]Furtive thoughts flowing once more
[01:06.59]I, there hoping for some sunrise
[01:08.61]Happiness would be a surprise
[01:10.25]Loneliness no longer a prize
[01:13.44]Rapping at my chamber door
[01:14.59]Seeking out the clever bore
[01:16.11]Lost in dreams forever more
[01:17.72]Only this and nothing more
[01:20.47]Hovering my pulse was racing
[01:21.85]Stale tobacco my lips tasting
[01:23.35]Scotch sitting upon my basin
[01:25.35]Remnants of the night before
[01:26.78]Came again
[01:28.01]Infernal tapping on the door
[01:29.12]In my mind jabbing
[01:30.26]Is it in or outside rapping
[01:32.29]Calling out to me once more
[01:33.64]The fit and fury of Lenore
[01:35.19]Nameless here forever more
[01:39.33]And the silken sad uncertain
[01:41.44]Rustling of the purple curtain
[01:42.81]Thrilled me, filled me
[01:44.16]With fantastic terrors never felt before
[01:46.27]So that now, oh wind, stood breathing
[01:49.53]Hoping yet to calm my breathing
[01:51.53]"'Tis some visitor entreating
[01:52.98]Entrance at my chamber door
[01:54.16]Some lost visitor entreating
[01:55.93]Entrance at my chamber door
[01:57.34]This it is, and nothing more."
[02:00.70]Deep into the darkness peering
[02:02.27]Long I stood there
[02:03.26]Wondering fearing
[02:04.62]Doubting dreaming fantasies
[02:06.12]No mortal dared to dream before
[02:07.75]But the silence was unbroken
[02:09.32]And the stillness gave no token
[02:10.91]And the only word there spoken
[02:12.34]Was the whispered name, "Lenore."
[02:14.97]This I thought
[02:16.08]And out loud whispered from my lips
[02:18.04]The foul name festered
[02:19.44]Echoing itself
[02:20.55]Merely this, and nothing more
[02:24.65]Back into my chamber turning
[02:26.12]Every nerve within me burning
[02:27.59]When once again I heard a tapping
[02:29.20]Somewhat louder than before
[02:30.60]"surely," said I
[02:31.93]Surely that is something at my iron staircase
[02:34.06]Open the door to see what threat is
[02:35.97]Open the window, free the shutters
[02:37.94]Let us this mystery explore
[02:39.60]Oh, bursting heart be still this once
[02:41.46]And let this mystery explore
[02:43.62]It is the wind and nothing more
[02:47.26]Just one epithet I muttered as inside
[02:48.75]I gagged and shuddered
[02:50.22]When with manly flirt and flutter
[02:52.20]In there flew a stately raven
[02:54.00]Sleek and ravenous as any foe
[02:56.61]Not the least obeisance made he
[02:58.10]Not a minutes gesture towards me
[02:59.90]Of recognition or politeness
[03:01.50]But perched above my chamber door
[03:03.12]This fowl and salivating visage
[03:05.75]Insinuating with its knowledge
[03:07.48]Perched above my chamber door
[03:09.46]Silent sat and staring
[03:11.30]Nothing more
[03:14.07]Askance, askew
[03:16.32]The self's sad fancy smiles at you I swear
[03:18.98]At this savage viscous countenance it wears
[03:22.18]Though you show here shorn and shaven
[03:24.40]And I admit myself forlorn and craven
[03:26.54]Ghastly grim and ancient raven
[03:28.42]Wandering from the opiate shores
[03:30.09]Tell me what thy lordly name is
[03:32.16]That you are not nightmare sewage
[03:34.30]Some dire powder drink or inhalation
[03:36.32]Framed from flames of downtown lore
[03:38.54]Quotes the raven, "nevermore."
[03:42.74]And the raven sitting lonely
[03:44.44]Staring sickly at my male sex only
[03:46.71]That one word
[03:48.11]As if his soul in that one word
[03:50.01]He did outpour, "pathetic."
[03:54.23]Nothing farther than he uttered
[03:56.07]Not a feather then he fluttered
[03:57.44]Till finally was I that muttered as I stared
[03:59.55]Dully at the floor
[04:02.06]"other friends have flown and left me
[04:04.03]Flown as each and every hope has flown before
[04:06.44]As you no doubt will fore the morrow."
[04:08.40]But the bird said, "never, more."
[04:12.53]Then I felt the air grow denser
[04:14.38]Perfumed from some unseen incense
[04:16.94]As though accepting angelic intrusion
[04:19.54]When in fact I felt collusion
[04:21.26]Before the guise of false memories respite
[04:24.28]Respite through the haze of cocaine's glory
[04:27.42]I smoke and smoke the blue vial's glory
[04:29.74]To forget
[04:30.76]At once
[04:31.71]The base Lenore
[04:33.36]Quoth the raven, "nevermore."
[04:36.79]"Prophet," said I, "thing of evil
[04:40.02]Prophet still, if bird or devil
[04:42.47]By that heaven that bend above us
[04:44.88]By that God we both ignore
[04:46.63]Tell this soul with sorrow laden
[04:48.80]Willful and destructive intent
[04:51.21]How had lapsed a pure heart lady
[04:53.35]To the greediest of needs
[04:56.06]Sweaty arrogant dickless liar
[04:58.42]Who ascribed to nothing higher
[05:00.09]Than a jab from prick to needle
[05:01.88]Straight to betrayal and disgrace
[05:03.66]The conscience showing not a trace."
[05:05.71]Quoth the raven, "nevermore."
[05:08.70]"Be that word our sign of parting
[05:10.34]Bird or fiend," I yelled upstarting
[05:12.20]"get thee back into the tempest
[05:13.82]Into the smoke filled bottle's shore
[05:15.09]Leave no black plume as a token
[05:17.01]Of the slime thy soul hath spoken
[05:19.30]Leave my loneliness unbroken
[05:21.01]Quit as those have quit before
[05:22.70]Take the talon from my heart
[05:25.03]And see that I can care no more
[05:26.59]Whatever mattered came before
[05:28.30]I vanish with the dead Lenore."
[05:30.88]Quoth the raven, "nevermore."
[05:35.99]But the raven, never flitting
[05:37.39]Still is sitting silent sitting
[05:40.14]Above a painting silent painting
[05:42.04]Of the forever silenced whore
[05:44.95]And his eyes have all the seeming
[05:48.10]Of a demon's that is dreaming
[05:50.66]And the lamplight over him
[05:52.26]Streaming throws his shadow to the floor
[05:54.24]I love she who hates me more
[05:58.15]I love she who hates me more
[06:02.59]And my soul shall not be lifted from that shadow
[06:06.74]Nevermore
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