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Tales Of Horrors (Intro)
01:36
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2. |
Darkness There
02:26
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DARKNESS THERE
Once upon a midnight dreary
While I pondered, weak and weary
Over many a quaint and curious
Volume of forgotten lore
Only this and nothing more
Nameless here for evermore
Darkness there and nothing more
While I nodded, nearly napping
Suddenly there came a tapping
As of someone gently rapping
Rapping at my chamber door
Only this and nothing more
Nameless here for evermore
Darkness there and nothing more
Distinctly I remember it was
In the bleak cold 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 radiant Lenore
Only this and nothing more
Nameless here for evermore
Darkness there and nothing more
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3. |
Fantastic Terrors
02:46
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FANTASTIC TERRORS
The silken sad uncertain rustling
Of each purple ancient curtain
Thrilled me, filled me tonight
With terrors never felt before
Fantastic terrors tonight
Beneath the moonlight
To still the beating of my heart
I stood repeating a rhyme
Presently my soul grew stronger
Hesitating then no longer
Fantastic terrors tonight
Beneath the moonlight
Deep into that darkness peering
Long I stood there wondering
Dreaming dreams no mortal
Ever dared dream before
But the silence was unbroken
And the stillness gave no token
And the only word there spoken
Was the whispered word Lenore
Fantastic terrors tonight
Beneath the moonlight
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4. |
Mystery
02:21
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MYSTERY
Back into the chamber turning
All my soul within me burning
Soon again I heard a tapping
Something louder than before
Something at my window
This mystery to explore
Open here I flung the shutter
With many a flirt and flutter
In there stepped a stately raven
Of the saintly days of yore
Something at my window
This mystery to explore
Surely this was…
At my window lattice
Not the least…
Obeisance made he
Not a minute…
Stopped or stayed he
With mien of lord or lady
Perched above my chamber door
Perched upon a bust of Pallas
Just above my chamber door
Something at my window
This mystery to explore
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5. |
Ghastly Grim
02:12
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GHASTLY GRIM
The ebony bird beguiling
My sad fancy into smiling
By the grave and stern decorum
Of the countenance it wore
Ghastly grim and ancient raven
Wandering from the nightly shore
Much I marveled this ungainly fowl
To hear discourse so plainly
Though its voice little meaning
Little relevancy bore
Ghastly grim and ancient raven
Wandering from the nightly shore
“Though thy crest be shorn and shaven
Thou art sure no craven
Tell me what thy lordly name is
On the night’s plutonian shore”
No other living human being
Ever yet ever was blessed with
Bird or beast upon the sculpture
Above his inner chamber door
Ghastly grim and ancient raven
Wandering from the nightly shore
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6. |
Ominous Words
03:01
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OMINOUS WORDS
The dark raven sitting lonely
Upon that old placid bust
Spoke the forgotten one word
As if his soul outpoured
Ominous words
Ominous words spoken
Ready to pay thy token
Nothing further he uttered
Not a feather then fluttered
Other friends have flown before
On the morrow he also will leave
Ominous words
Ominous words spoken
Ready to pay thy token
“Never shall I depart”
The croak was heard
Startled at the broken stillness
My mind raced with dread
By the uttered gloomy words
Of someone enthralled
Spreading far the songs
Of burden bore by darkness
Till the dirges of his tale
That melancholy burden bore
Ominous words spoken
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7. |
Mesmerized
01:49
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MESMERIZED
The pitch black still beguiling
All my sad soul into grimacing
Straight I wheeled a seat
Mesmerized at the dark raven
Mesmerized I stood
Peering into the fiery eyes
Upon the velvet sinking
I betook myself to thinking
Thinking what this ominous bird
This grim ghastly of yore meant
Mesmerized I stood
Peering into the fiery eyes
This I sat engaged in guessing
But no syllable expressing
Then the air grew denser
Perfumed from an unseen censer
Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls
Tinkled on the tufted floor
To the fowl whose fiery eyes
Now burned into my core
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8. |
Mountains Of Gilead
02:24
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MOUNTAINS OF GILEAD
Wretch, thy god hath lent thee
By these angels he hath sent thee
Respite and nepenthe from memories
Quaff this kind nepenthe and forget
To the mountains of Gilead
Where the sacred oil burns
Prophet, thing of the most evil
No matter if be bird or devil
Whether by unnamed tempter sent
Or by tempest tossed here ashore
To the mountains of Gilead
Where the sacred oil burns
Desolate, yet remaining undaunted
On this desert land enchanted
On this home by horror haunted
Is there balm in the hills of Gilead?
To the mountains of Gilead
Where the sacred oil burns
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9. |
Lenore
02:51
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LENORE
By that heaven that bends above us
By the god that we deplore
Tell this soul with sorrow laden
Within the distant Aidenn
It shall clasp a radiant maiden
Whom the angels name Lenore
Be that word our sign of parting
Dark ominous bird or fiend
Get thee back into the tempest
And the night’s Plutonian shore
It shall clasp a radiant maiden
Whom the angels name Lenore
Leave no black plume as a token
Of that lie thy soul hath spoken
Leave my loneliness unbroken
Take thy beak from my heart
And the raven never flitting, sitting
His eyes have all the seeming
Of a demon that is dreaming
And his shadow covering my soul
It shall clasp a radiant maiden
Whom the angels name Lenore
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10. |
Maiden In The Mist
02:31
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MAIDEN IN THE MIST
It was many years ago
In a kingdom by the sea
That a maiden there lived
Lost in an evil fog of ages
The maiden in the mist
Forever lost in haze
The maiden in the mist
She was a divine maiden
In this kingdom by the sea
Coveted by all mortals alike
Even by the winged seraphs
The maiden in the mist
Lost in eternal miasma
The maiden in the mist
And this was the reason (long ago)
In this kingdom by the sea
A wind blew out of a cloud (chilling)
Her high-born kinsman came
And bore her away (to a sepulcher)
In this kingdom by the sea
The angels gazed from heaven
Envying her timeless beauty
In this kingdom by the sea
The winds of death descended
The maiden in the mist
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11. |
The Bells Toll
02:24
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THE BELLS TOLL
Hear the sledges with the bells
What a world of horror they foretell
In the icy air of night so dark
While the stars overlook from above
The bells toll
They heed of pain to come
Hear the bells toll
Take heed, woe comes forth
Keeping time in a sort of runic rhyme
Through the balmy air of the night
Ear now from the molten-silver notes
While she gloats in the moonlight
The bells toll
They heed of pain to come
Hear the bells toll
Take heed, woe comes forth
Hear the tolling of the iron bells
What a world of solemn thought
How we shiver with affright
At the melancholy of their tone
For every sound that floats
From the rust within their throats
Hear the loud alarum bells
What a tale of terror now they tell
In the startled ear of the night
How they scream out their affright
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12. |
Ulalume
02:20
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ULALUME
The skies they were ashen
It was night in the lonesome October
It was hard by the dim lake of Auber
It was down by the dank tarn of Auber
The leaves they were crisped
The leaves they were withering
In the misty mid region of Weir
In the ghoul haunted woodlands
Of cypress I roamed with my soul
These were days when my heart was volcanic
The leaves they were crisped
The leaves they were withering
As the scoriac rivers that rolls forever
As the lavas that restlessly roll
Their sulphurous currents down Yaanek
In the realms of the boreal pole
And now as the night was senescent
At the end of our vast path
Arose with a duplicate horn
Astarte’s be diamonded crescent
The leaves they were crisped
The leaves they were withering
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13. |
Dominion
02:32
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DOMINION
In the greenest of our valleys
By ancient souls tenanted
Once a fair and stately palace
Radiant palace, reared its head
In the monarch thought’s
Dominion, it stood there
Never seraph spread a pinion
Over fabric half so fair
Banners yellow, glorious, golden
On its roof did float and flow
Along the ramparts and pallid
A winged odor went away
In the monarch thought’s
Dominion, it stood there
Never seraph spread a pinion
Over fabric half so fair
Through windows closed shut
Spirits ominously moving
Round about a throne
The ruler of the realm seen
Wanderers in that valley
To a lute’s well-tuned law
All this was in the olden Time
In state his glory well befitting
Chorus
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14. |
In Robes Of Sorrow
02:36
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IN ROBES OF SORROW
All with pearl and ruby glowing
Was the fairest of palace doors
Through which came flowing
A troop of Echoes of the king
But evil things
In robes of sorrow
Assailed the monarch
The once safe high estates
Let us mourn for the gone king
Never morrow shall dawn again
Upon him no more, desolate
But evil things
In robes of sorrow
Assailed the monarch
Travelers now within that valley
Through red-litten windows see
Vast forms that move fantastically
To a discordant melody
And all the glory that blushed
Is but a dim-remembered story
Of the old time entombed
As a hideous throng rush out forever
But evil things
In robes of sorrow
Assailed the monarch
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15. |
Music Of Spheres
02:54
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MUSIC OF SPHERES
Lo! This is a mystic night
Within the lonesome years
An angel throng, bewinged
In veils, drowned in tears
Listen to the music of spheres
Listen to the music of spheres
Listen to the music of spheres
Sit down and gaze upon
A play of hopes and fears
As the orchestra breathes
The music of the spheres
Listen to the music of spheres
Listen to the music of spheres
Listen to the music of spheres
The form of god on high
Mutter and mumble low
And hither and thither fly
Mere puppets who come and go
Lo! This is a mystic night
Within the lonesome years
An angel throng, bewinged
In veils, drowned in tears
Listen to the music of spheres
Listen to the music of spheres
Listen to the music of spheres
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16. |
Within The Blackness
02:46
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WITHIN THE BLACKNESS
Thou wast that all to me
For which my soul did pine
A green isle in the sea
A fountain and a shrine
All wreathed with darkness
And all the darkness is mine
Within the blackness
Within the darkness
Dream to bright to last
Starry hope that didst arise
But to be all overcast
A voice from far out cries
Onward, but over the past
My spirit hovering lies
Within the blackness
Within the darkness
For alas this is the sign
The light of life is over
Such fate holds the solemn sea
To the sands upon the shore
Now all my hours are trances
And all my nightly dreams
Are where the dark eye glances
And where thy footstep gleams
In what ethereal dances
By what devilish streams
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17. |
Spirits Of The Dead
02:39
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SPIRITS OF THE DEAD
Thy soul shall find itself alone
Alone of all on Earth, unknown
None vile are here to prey
The cause, thy hour of secrecy
Spirits of the dead
On this night we commune
Be silent in that solitude
Which is not loneliness
The spirits of those long gone
In death are still around thee
Spirits of the dead
On this night we commune
The night, though clear, shall frown
And the stars shall not look down
From their thrones in dark heaven
With light like hope to mortals given
But their red orbs without beam
To the withering heart shall seem
As a burning and a fever
Which would cling forever
Spirits of the dead
On this night we commune
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18. |
An Ode To Hell
02:30
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