The Raven (Part 1)

[Verse 1]

Once upon a midnight dreary,

while I pondered, weak and weary,

Over many a quaint and curious

volume of forgotten lore,

[Verse 2]

While I nodded, nearly napping,

suddenly there came a tapping,

As of some one gently rapping,

rapping at my chamber door.

[Pre-Chorus]

"'Tis some visitor," I muttered,

"tapping at my chamber door-

Only this, and nothing more."

[Chorus]

Nevermore, nevermore

Your voice echoes through the door

I call your name into the dark

But all I hear is the raven’s mark

Nevermore, nevermore

Hope is gone, forevermore

[Verse 3]

Ah, distinctly I remember

it was in the bleak December,

And each separate dying ember

wrought its ghost upon the floor.

[Verse 4]

Eagerly I wished the morrow;

- vainly I had sought to borrow

From my books surcease of sorrow-

sorrow for the lost Lenore-

[Pre-Chorus]

For the rare and radiant maiden

whom the angels name Lenore-

Nameless here for evermore.

[Chorus]

Nevermore, nevermore

Your voice echoes through the door

I call your name into the dark

But all I hear is the raven’s mark

Nevermore, nevermore

Hope is gone, forevermore

[Verse 5]

And the silken, sad, uncertain

rustling of each purple curtain

Thrilled me- filled me

with fantastic terrors never felt before;

[Verse 6]

So that now, to still the beating

of my heart, I stood repeating,

"'Tis some visitor entreating

entrance at my chamber door-

[Outro]

Some late visitor entreating

entrance at my chamber door;-

This it is, and nothing more."