Act Two Lyrics - Hammill Peter

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The voices house. wet vaults. caissons. we breathe...of the undercroft. abutments. stones. wood. breathe...house buttresses. bressumers. spandrels. we breathe... columns and pillars. shafts. arches. capitals. breathe.... we breathe. we are waiting. we rise. we are waiting. we are usher. house of usher. pilasters. quoins. piers. spandrels and columns that shaft through the years. house of usher. wainscots. stairs. balusters. cusps and cornices. spandrels and columns the capital years. house of usher. we breathe. we are waiting we rise. we are waiting. we are usher. house of usher. beams. corbels. joists. kingposts. copings and chimney-shafts. ridge-ribs. struts. stanchions. parapets. pediments. mansards and gargoyles. the eaves. the dripping eaves... cupola. finials. gables. tiles. lead... we breathe. we are waiting. we rise. we are waiting. we are usher. house of usher. we are keystone. we are usher.roderick usher("the sleeper") 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 while the dim sheeted ghosts go by. my love she sleeps. oh may her sleep as it is lasting so be deep! soft may the worms around her creep! far in the forest dim and old now may some tall vault enfold her; some vault that oft hath flung its black and winged panels fluttering back triumphant o'er the crested palls of her grand family funerals....usher montresor i didn't mean to interrupt...montresor you came! did you think i'd ignore your letter?montresor you're here!come let me help you with your coat.sit down and rest yourself.oh it's so good to see you here!now tell me all your news...i see you've changed a bit my friend...now won't you have a drink... yes yes but one thing at a time! first you must tell me what...but i expect i too have changed.how many years could it be nowsince last we said farewell? it must be ten years since our last meetingyes it must be ten yearssince our last meeting since our last meeting. tell me what is wrong? your letter spoke of a malady; some desperate trial you could not face alone...oh no you tell me all your doings! tell me.tell mehow you pass your days how you pass your daystell mefrom the beginning. from the beginningtell meeverything everythingthat's happenedsince we went our since we went ourseparate ways. separate ways.look at me...i have not left these wallsthese three yearsi do not dare to do so!i am imprisoned and fear is my gaoler.each word i speakseems too dangerous.my slightest act could bring aboutthe very thing i fear but fear of what?hush and i shall tell you...tell you...usher i shun the light creep in the gloom like a toad a white worm tortured by the faintest gleam of sun. i hear... oh god if you could only know the things i hear! i hear the lake sucking at the walls i hear bats breathing i hear the sky moan to join with the slime! and this all this like thunder to me like thunder! my senses scream at me: sight... touch... sight... touch... sound and taste... sound and scent all torment and claw at my sanity. there is no hiding place for me for even in the quietest of my rooms i hear the walls in conversation; i hear the palpitations of my heart; i feel all that lives and does not move and know it knows my feeling. my only peace lies in my music and then only because it drowns out all other sounds and souls... you may think that i am mad but it is not so. my senses reel beneath the blow of feathers falling and more... but no i see you do not understand.montresor oh my poor dear friend you must see you are not well. i've read of this before i think it's called hyperaesthesis. i'm no doctor but it's clear your nerves have gone to pieces. you need to get away you need a holiday you need a change of air! you need an ocean cruise you need to be amused! i tell you plain this house to me seems most unhealthy. you're unattached you're free to go you're wealthy.usher montresor the chorus leave this house. leave this house. leave this house and come away. leave this housei cannot! leave this house!i cannot! leave this house!here i must stay.here i must stay. you are wasting your time. he will never leave...i can neverleave heretherefore donot ask mesay no more i've heard of this beforeand let me be i think it's called hyperaesthesisi can never i'm no doctor but it's clearleave here your nerves have gone to pieces.therefore do your nerves have gone to pieces.not ask me.say no moreand let me bei cannot leave he cannot leavethe house is i the house is hewe are as one they are as oneand i would die and so must die now you must leavei he cannot leavecannot now you must flyleave the house is he now you must runthe they are as onehouse is no-one will diei and so must diei cannot leave now you must leave he cannot leavethe house is i now you must fly the house is hewe are as one now you must run and so must dieand so must die no-one will dieusher montresor the house we shall not let him go! we shall not leave let him go!do not torture me! this we shall notdo not try to persuade! house let him go! we shall not leave let him go!it only brings me grief this we shall not house let him go! leave this house we shall noti cannot leave let him go! we shall not let him go! shall not let him go!usher montresor the chorus the house leave this housei cannot leave this housei cannotleave this house leave this house and come with me we shall not let him go. leave this housei cannot never never leave this house never!i cannot leave this house and come with me never! never never never! never! never never never!i can never we are boundleave here togethertherefore do for the last time so nevernot ask me i entreat you he shall he shallsay no more never leave never leaveand let me be. we are bound together for the last time so never i entreat you he shall he shall leave! never leave never leave.do nottalk to me neverdo not try neverto persuade leave! never he shall never never leave leave this houseoh montresor never neveri beg of you never neveri can never nevernever leave never neveri can never never neverleave this house leave this house never neveri can never you are wasting never neverleave this house leave this house you time never neveri can never he will never never neverleave this house leave! leave never never never!the houseis i. end of act two

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