Peter Hammill piosenki

[Roderick Usher] 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 Whil...

[Montresor] Stop, Madeline, look at me! My god, man, what is wrong with her? [Usher] Yes, it's right you should know, She is dying! I have not dared to speak of it. A chronic catalepsy had drained her of her youth. I have watched her waste away and...

[Madeline] Carriages at seven I shall wear the flower he gave me It's so cold here Deep beneath the lapping water... The water The water My love Head against his shoulder, 'cross the lawn I hear the music... Silent blackness, In the lake I'm sinkin...

[Montresor] So that is Usher's idea of a doctor! That wretched mountebank can't help them. I confront madness face to face! And whatever it's cause, it lies within this place I breathe an atmosphere of sorrow; An alien despair makes my courage fail, Like...

[The Herbalist] Good evening, sir. And you must be the friend of Mister Usher. I'm so pleased to meet you, sir, But have little time to spare For knowledge such as mine is wanted everywhere. In poor dwellings, yes, but some as great as Usher's. My card....

[Usher / Montresor] Yes, she does not know it yet; Perhaps for the best So sure she will recover And so full of life full of life Full of life, My brave my brave Madeline Madeline This House devours her So take her from this place Preparing the final...

[Madeline] That must be Montresor... Good morning! Oh, how lovely to see you - Since Roderick told me you were coming I have been so excited. Now you are here, all will be well once more. I was not here last night to greet you, You must think me ill-ma...

[Montresor & Madeline] As we walk so we tread On the words left unsaid I can't say them no matter how hard I try We chatter on, then the moment's gone, The one for which I've hoped And I've prayed and I've planned. Stop the clock's advance! I need...

[Usher] There will be no rot! No rot in Usher! We have lived with thunder, And with thunder shall we fall! [Montresor] I cannot make you come but hear what I say. Send Madeline with me to some healthy place. [Usher] No rot! No rot in Usher! We have liv...

[Chorus] Late that evening the Lady Madeline Again succumbed to the power Of her dark afflictions. Her brother and her friend sat by her And Montresor, although familiar with many Of the gross and wonderful Phenomena of morbid flesh Marvelled at the de...

[Chorus] Three endless days of bitter grief passed And Montresor abandoned any attempt to cheer his friend. Then came a sudden change in Usher's Demeanour, whose significance he was soon to comprehend. Now Usher stands for hour on hour With head inclined...

[Usher] Yes, I hear it! Yes, I have heard it Long, long - many minutes, many hours, But I dared not speak: I tell you I dared not speak. No more cant from you, You thick-skinned obtuse fool, damn your compassion! For now I say you will hear the wicked t...

[Usher / Montresor / Chorus / Voices Of The House] No, what a House Monstrous thought! We Now the punishment breath! Is finished. The evil that House You said is done we are! She was dead... cannot be We You watched undone. could not Her dying! It's o...

[The Voices of the House] Beams buttresses plaster copings We We Corbels bressumers quoins chimney- breath are Joists arches wainscot shafts We rise Usher Kin-posts piers stairs parapets Ridge-ribs spandrels banister pediments Struts columns cusps mansar...

In the greenest of our valleys By good angels tenanted Once a fair and stately palace - Radiant palace - reared its head. In the monarch, Thought's dominion Like a jewel it stood there. Never seraph spread a pinion Over fabric half so fair. Wanderers i...

He made a bit of money, that's something you might like to know.... He'll be drinking in the cafe on the corner after the show. He's been so many people, he wore them all like poisoned vests, still playing the soliloquy from Hamlet close to his chest. Where...

I stretch my hands, clutch vacant laughter in silence and sweet, sweet pain; without demand, but with a longing for what will never come again. I smell your perfume on the sheets in the morning: it lingers like the patterns on the window after rain, a past th...

I stand on the tallest building And stare down at the grey runway And the tail-smoke of the Boeing jet That's taking you so far away. Believe me, I don't want you to leave me; Look in my eyes and you'll see them Filled with pain. Imagine just how sad I...

When you told me that you loved me I had no reason to doubt it So I went about my life in such a selfish way And never really thought about it. Oh do I have to let go? Oh I had my chance and I've blown it, 'cause I loved you so much all these years And...

Fried up the brain With rhetorical questions Dictionary games And conundrums ear to ear. When we say what we think Do we think what we're saying's Missing a link, Inconsistent in idea? (in internal stage whispers Wordless the script Getting lost in...