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."