## **Lenore's Chamber (A Song for The Raven)**

### **Verse 1 (Narrative Introduction)**

**(Lead Vocal, low and steady)**

Midnight drew near and the wind was bitter cold,

I was weary with reading, a tale long untold.

Just trying to drown the deep pain in my soul,

For the beautiful shadow my heart couldn't hold.

Lenore... ah, Lenore... lost and gone from my door,

When a sudden tapping came at my chamber door.

### **Chorus (Building Intensity, with Harmonies)**

**(Stronger, more urgent tone)**

I begged for an answer, a sign from the dark,

To lift this great burden, to leave some small mark.

Then the wings beat the casement, and settled above,

A black feathered demon, denying my love!

**And the only reply, as I knelt on the floor,**

**Was the single, bleak whisper: "Nevermore."**

### **Verse 2 (The Raven's Entrance)**

**(Lead Vocal, slightly faster tempo)**

I pulled the sash open, and in stepped the bird,

Not a greeting, no courtesy, no single kind word.

With eyes full of fire and a crest like the night,

It perched on the bust of Pallas, bathed in pale light.

I smiled, though I knew that this moment would fade,

But I prayed for a truth from the shadow it made.

I called it "Sir or Madam," desperate and poor,

And the shadow just answered: "Nevermore."

### **Chorus (Full Emotional Swell, Cello/Piano emphasize)**

**(Harmonies, desperate)**

I begged for an answer, a sign from the dark,

To lift this great burden, to leave some small mark.

Then the wings beat the casement, and settled above,

A black feathered demon, denying my love!

**And the only reply, as I knelt on the floor,**

**Was the single, bleak whisper: "Nevermore."**

### **Bridge (Obsession and Madness - Vocal Break)**

**(Vocal, almost spoken/whispered over soft, repeating piano chords)**

I cried out in madness, "Is there balm in Gilead?

Will I hold her in heaven? Is that promise true?"

I knew what would come, yet I asked once again,

Dredging up the sweet name of my beautiful sin.

I knew every question would lead to the same fate,

**My heart loves the torture, the torment, the hate.**

### **Guitar/Instrumental Solo (Dark, mournful, and intense)**

*(Features a dramatic, minor-key piano or electric guitar solo that mimics the despair and chaos of the narrator's mind.)*

### **Outro (Fade Out - Repetitive and Haunting)**

**(Vocal, fading and echoing, with a heavy, slow beat)**

Take thy beak from my heart, and thy form from my door!

*Quoth the Raven... Nevermore.*

My soul from that shadow that lies on the floor...

*Quoth the Raven... Nevermore.*

Will my soul ever clasp her... ah, Lenore...

*Nevermore... Nevermore...*

**(Final sound is a single, slow beat of a wing)**