Lyrics That's Just Coincidence! - Forgotten Faces

"That's just coincidence? That's just coincidence
Lovesick paranoia? That's just coincidence!
Robbed of my innocence, starved of magnificence, that's just coincidence!
That's just coincidence? Fear is nigh, I'm feeling it!
Madeline's inside my head and that's just coincidence?
Madeline is calling me, pestilence befalling me, that's just coincidence?"

My, the storm is quite terrible tonight!
I will read to you, let us read together!

And Ethelred, on account of the wine which he had drunken
Waited no longer to fight the Hermit, but feeling the rain
Upon his shoulders, uplifted his mace and with blows
Made planks of the door for his Gauntleted hand
Now pulling there, he cracked and ripped and tore asunder
That the noise of the dry and hollow wood
Reverberated throughout the forest

"That's just coincidence? Ethelred is militant!
Rending of her coffin lid and that's just coincidence?
Madeline resilient, I'm fucking brilliant, that's just coincidence!
That's just coincidence? Cursed me forgetting it!
She's alive inside her tomb and that's just coincidence?
Bleeding holes inside the neck, lineage is heretic, that's just coincidence?"

Now, now... it's okay!
Let me read to you once more

But Ethelred, now entering the door
Was enraged and amazed to perceive not the Hermit
But instead a dragon of fiery tongue was guarding a golden palace
With a floor of silver
And upon the wall, there hung a shield of shining brass!
And Ethelred uplifted his mace and struck the dragon
Which fell before him with a shriek so horrid and harsh
That the hero had to close his ears with his hands against the dreadful noise of it!

"That's just coincidence? That's just coincidence!?
She is crying for my blood and that's just coincidence!
Dragon death is all I hear, falling victim to my fear, that's just coincidence!
That's just coincidence? Now, my death is imminent!
I cannot believe my ears, that's just coincidence!
Madeline is mocking me, Usher curse haunting me, that's just coincidence!?"

Okay, I heard it that time... but I'm sure it was a coincidence!

And now, the champion
Having escaped the dragon
Removed the carcass from out the way before him and approached valorously
Over the Silver pavement
The shield was hung upon the wall, which fell down
At his feet upon the silver floor with a mighty
Great and terrible ringing sound

The chamber... do you hear it?
"Are you not frightened as I am?"
Roderick, what was that?
Roderick, answer my question!

"Not hear it? Yes, I've heard it many minutes, many hours, many days...
Yet I dared not speak!
Miserable wretch that I am... we have put her living in the tomb!
Have I not said that my senses were acute?
And now tonight, the breaking of the wood
The cry of the dragon, the clangor of the shield...
Rather her coffin lid breaking, the hinges of her prison
And her struggles within the vault!
Is she now hurrying to upbraid me for my haste?
Do I not distinguish the beating of her heart!?
Madman! I tell you, she now stands without the door!"

From that chamber and mansion, I fled aghast
The storm still in all its wrath as I crossed the old causeway
Suddenly, along the path there shot a wild light
And I turned to see from whence a Gleam so unusual could have issued
It was the full blood-red moon shining vividly
Through the huge crack in the house
Suddenly, it widened and my brain reeled
As I saw the mighty walls rushing asunder
And the deep and dank tarn at my feet closed sullenly, and silently
Over the fragments of the house of Usher