"Act 1. An Unenviable Role" lyrics - PETER HAMMILL
[The Chorus]
The chorus has often an unenviable role to play,
Often a distasteful task to perform;
Summoned as witness to uncounted crime,
She's the silent accomplice of all,
Then she turns and comments on the action.
She hears... observes, but must never betray her emotions
She moves, unseen, the characters oblivion of her presence;
A simple stage device.
She cannot hide, cannot take sides.
It his curse that she must stay and comment on the action...
A young man named Montresor lately received an urgent
Letter from a dear friend of childhood,
Roderick Usher by name,
In which his friend begged him to come
With all speed to the family seat.
So, during the whole of a dull, dark and soundless day
In the autumn of the year,
When the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens,
He had been passing through
A singularly dreary tract of country
'till he found himself,
As the shades of night drew on,
Within view of the melancholy house of Usher
The Fall Of The House Of Usher (1991)
- Act 1. An Unenviable Role
- Act 1. That Must Be The House
- Act 2. Architecture
- Act 2. The Sleeper
- Act 2. One Thing At A Time
- Act 2. I Shun The Light
- Act 2. Leave This House
- Act 3. Dreaming
- Act 3. A Chronic Catalepsy
- Act 3. The Herbalist
- Act 3. The Evil That Is Done
- Act 4. Five Years Ago
- Act 4. It's Over Now
- Act 4. An Influence
- Act 4. No Rot
- Act 5. She Is Dead
- Act 6. Beating Of The Heart
- Act 6. The Haunted Palace
- Act 6. I Dared Not Speak
- Act 6. She Comes Towards The Door
- Act 6. The Fall