The Eclipse / The Raven... Lyrics - Carpathian Forest

[Music by Nordavind '91] 

Once upon a midnight dreary. while I pondered, weak and weary 

over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore-.... 

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, 

As of some one, gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. 

'Tis some visitor' I muttered, tapping at my chamber door.... 

Only this and nothing more.... 

[Fretless Bass solo] 

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, 

and each seperate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. 

Eagerly I wished the morrow... Vainly I had sought to borrow 

from my books surcease of sorrow.... Sorrow for the lost Lenore-... 

For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore-... 

Nameless here for evermore...