Lou Reed - The Fall Of The House Of Usher текст песни

Текст песни The Fall Of The House Of Usher - Lou Reed



And then I had a vision
Ah Edgar, ah, Edgar, my dear friend Edgar
It's been a long time, Roderick
I've ridden many miles
It's been a dull and soundless day for autumn
The leaves have lost their autumn glow
And the clouds seem oppressive with their drifting finery
I know, my friend
Though I own so much of this land I find, the country insufferable
I deal only in half pleasures
Speaking of half pleasures
Would you care for a tincture of opium?
Nothing would please me more than to smoke with an old friend
I've experienced the hideous dropping of the veil
The bitter lapse into common life
Unredeemed dreariness of thought
I have an iciness, a sickening of the heart
It's true you don't look well, Roderick
But I am your friend, no matter the occasion or position of the stars
I'm glad you wrote me, but I must admit to concern
I cannot contain my heart
Edgar, I look to you for solace
For relief from myself
What I have is constitutional
A family evil, a nervous affection that must surely pass
But I do have this morbid acuteness of senses
I can eat only the most insipid food
Clothes only of the lightest texture
The odor of flowers I find oppressive
My eyes cannot bear even the faintest light (ah, ah, ah, ah)
Did you hear that?
I hear, I am listening, go on
I shall perish
I will perish in this deplorable folly
I dread the future not the events, the results
The most trivial event causes the greatest agitation of the soul
I do not fear danger except in its absolute effect, terror
I find I must inevitably abandon life and reason together in my struggles with the demon fear
Perhaps you'll think me superstitious
But the physique of this place
It hovers about me like a great body
Some diseased outer shell
Some decaying finite skin encasing my morale
You mentioned your sister was ill
My beloved sister, my sole companion
Has had a long continuing illness, whose inevitable conclusion seems forsworn
This will leave me the last of the ancient race of Ushers
She looks so much like you
I love her in a nameless way
More than I love myself
Her demise will leave me hopelessly confined to memories
And realities of a future so barren as to be stultifying
Oh, what of physicians?
Ah, they are baffled
Until today she refused bed rest
Wanting to be present in your honor
But finally she succumbed to the prostrating power of the destroyer
You will probably see her no more
Sound and music take us to the twin curves of experience
Like brother and sister intertwined, they relieve themselves of bodily contact
And dance in a pagan revelry
I have soiled myself with my designs
I am ashamed of my brain
The enemy is me, and the executioner terror
Music is a reflection of our inner self
Unfiltered agony touches the wayward string
The wayward brain confuses itself with the self-perceived future
And turns inward with loathing and terror
Either by design or thought, we are doomed to know our own end
I've written a lyric
May I hear it?
It is called, the haunted palace
In the greenest of our valleys by good angels tenanted, once a fair and stately palace
Snow-white palace, reared its head
Banners yellow, glorious, golden, on its roof did float and flow
This, all this was in the olden time long ago
And every gentle air that dallied along the rampart plumed and pallid
A winged odor went away
All wanderers in that happy valley, through two luminous windows saw spirits moving musically
The sovereign of the realm serene
A troop of echoes whose sweet duty was but to sing in voices of surpassing beauty
The wit and wisdom of their king
But evil things in robes of sorrow
Assailed the monarch's high estate, and round about his home the glory, is but a dim-remembered story
Vast forms that move fantastically to a discordant melody
While, like a ghastly river, a hideous throng rush out forever, and laugh
But smile no more, nevermore
It's cold in here
I tell you minerals are sentient things
The gradual yet certain condensation of an atmosphere
Of their own about the waters and the walls proves this
Thus the silent yet importunate and terrible influence, which for centuries has molded my family
And now me
Excuse me
She is gone, out, sad light
Roderick has no life
I shall preserve her corpse for a fortnight
But Roderick
I shall place it in a vault facing the lake
I do not wish to answer to the medical men
Nor place her in the exposed burial plot of my family
We shall inter her at the proper date
When I am more fully of a right mind
Her malady was unusual
Please do not question me on this
I cannot question you
Then help me now
Ah, one would think you twins
We are, we have always been sympathetic to each other
Have you seen this?
It is her
It is a whirlwind
You should not, you must not behold this
Roderick, these appearances which bewilder you are mere electrical phenomena not uncommon
Or perhaps they have their rank origins in the marshy gases of the lake
Please, let's close this casement and I will read and you will listen
And together we will pass this terrible night together
What's that?
What is that?
Don't you hear that?
Not hear it, yes, I hear it and have heard it many minutes have I heard it
Oh, pity me miserable wretch
I dared not
Oh, no
I dared not speak
We have put her living in the tomb
I have heard feeble movements in the coffin
I thought I heard
I dared not speak
Oh, God
I have heard footsteps
Do you not hear them?
Attention
Do I not distinguish that heavy and horrible beating of her heart?
Madman
Madman
I tell you she now stands without the door
Ah, ah, ah, ahh, ah, ah, ah, ah



Авторы: Lou Reed


Lou Reed - The Sire Years: Complete Albums Box
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1 Original Wrapper (Live Version)
2 Harry's Circumcision - Reverie Gone Astray
3 Riptide (Live Version)
4 Coney Island Baby (Live Version)
5 The Kids (Live Version)
6 Riptide
7 Kicks (Live Version)
8 Set the Twilight Reeling
9 The Raven
10 The Bed
11 Busload of Faith
12 What's Good (The Thesis)
13 The Courtly Orangutans
14 Dirty Blvd. (Live Version)
15 Perfect Day (Live Version)
16 Strawman
17 Dirty Blvd.
18 Hello It's Me
19 Rouge
20 Overture
21 Fire Music
22 Dorita (The Spirit)
23 A Thousand Departed Friends
24 Set the Twilight Reeling (Live Version)
25 Candy Says (Live Version)
26 Call on Me (Live Version)
27 Ecstasy (Live Version)
28 Vanishing Act (Live Version)
29 Tell It to Your Heart (Live Version)
30 Guardian Angel
31 Who Am I? (Tripitena's Song)
32 Every Frog Has His Day
33 A Wild Being from Birth
34 The Cask
35 Vanishing Act
36 Imp of the Perverse
37 Tell Tale Heart, Pt. 2
38 The Tell Tale Heart, Pt. 1
39 Broadway Song
40 Balloon
41 The City in the Sea / Shadow
42 The Valley of Unrest
43 Big Sky
44 Rock Minuet
45 Tatters
46 Modern Dance
47 Ecstasy
48 Mystic Child
49 Paranoia Key of E
50 Sex With Your Parents (Motherfucker), Pt. II [Live]
51 Hang on to Your Emotions
52 Trade In
53 NYC Man
54 Egg Cream
55 Starlight
56 Work
57 Open House
58 Smalltown
59 Good Evening Mr. Waldheim
60 Hold On
61 Sick Of You
62 Beginning of a Great Adventure
63 There Is No Time
64 Endless Cycle
65 Romeo Had Juliette
66 Dreamin' - Escape
67 Forever Changed
68 Turning Time Around
69 Talking Book - Live Version
70 White Prism
71 Into The Divine - Live Version
72 Mad
73 Warrior King - Revenge
74 Change
75 Future Farmers Of America
76 Baton Rouge
77 Call On Me
78 Xmas In February
79 Nobody but You
80 I Wanna Know (The Pit and the Pendulum)
81 Guilty (Edit)
82 Perfect Day
83 All Tomorrow's Parties (Live Version)
84 Men of Good Fortune (Live Version)
85 Sex With Your Parents (Motherfucker), Pt. II [Recorded Live July 4th, 1995]
86 Revien Cherie (Live Version)
87 Sunday Morning (Live Version)
88 The Bed (Live Version)
89 The Day John Kennedy Died (Live Version)
90 The Raven (Live Version)
91 Venus in Furs (Live Version)
92 Smalltown (Live Version)
93 Street Hassle (Live Version)
94 How Do You Think It Feels (Live Version)
95 Heroin (Live Version)
96 Advice (Live Version)
97 Hop Frog (feat. David Bowie)
98 Blind Rage
99 Halloween Parade
100 Burning Embers
101 Last Great American Whale
102 Science Of The Mind
103 Annabel Lee/The Bells
104 Dime Store Mystery
105 Tripitena's Speech
106 Style It Takes
107 Trouble With Classicists
108 Faces And Names
109 Images
110 Slip Away (A Warning)
111 It Wasn't Me
112 I Believe
113 A Dream
114 Power and Glory - The Situation
115 Magician - Internally
116 Sword of Damocles - Externally
117 Goodby Mass (In a Chapel Bodily Termination)
118 Cremation (Ashes to Ashes)
119 No Chance - Regret
120 Gassed And Stoned - Loss
121 Power and Glory, Pt. II - Magic - Transformation
122 Magic And Loss (Summation)
123 Finish Line
124 Hookywooky
125 The Propostion
126 Adventurer
127 I'll Be Your Mirror (Live Version)
128 Vicious (Live Version)
129 Busload Of Faith - Live Version
130 New Sensations - Live Version
131 Why Do You Talk (Live Version)
132 Like A Possum
133 The Conqueror Worm
134 Old Poe
135 Prologue
136 Edgar Allan Poe
137 The Fall Of The House Of Usher




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