Luyện nghe bài hát Act Two

THE House. Wet Vaults. Caissons. We breathe...
OF THE Undercroft. Abutments. Stones. Wood. Breathe...
Buttresses. Bressumers. Spandrels. We Breathe...
and Pillars. Shafts. Arches. Capitals. Breathe....
We breathe. We are waiting.
We rise. We are waiting.
We are Usher. of Usher.
Pilasters. Quoins. Piers.
Spandrels and columns that shaft the years.
of Usher.
Wainscots. Stairs. Balusters. and Cornices.
Spandrels and the capital years.
of Usher.
We breathe. We are
We rise. We are waiting.
We are Usher. of Usher.
Beams. Corbels. Joists. Kingposts.
and Chimney-shafts.
Ridge-ribs. Struts. Stanchions. Parapets.
Pediments. and Gargoyles.
The eaves. The eaves...
Cupola. Finials. Gables. Tiles. Lead...
We breathe. We are waiting.
We rise. We are waiting.
We are Usher. of Usher.
We are Keystone. We are Usher.
RODERICK
("The Sleeper") The sleeps. oh, may her sleep
is enduring so be deep!
Heaven her in its sacred keep!
This chamber for one more holy,
bed for one of melancholy.
I to God that she may lie
forever with eye
while the dim, sheeted go by.
My love, she sleeps. Oh, may her
as it is so be deep!
may the worms around her creep!
Far in the forest, dim and old,
now may some vault enfold her;
some vault that oft hath its black
and winged fluttering back
o'er the crested palls
of her grand funerals....
MONTRESOR

I mean to interrupt...
Montresor, you came!
Did you think I'd your letter?
Montresor, here!
let me help you with your coat.
Sit down and yourself.
Oh, so good to see you here!
Now me all your news...
I see you've a bit, my friend...
Now won't you a drink...
Yes, yes
but one at a time!
First you tell me what...
But I expect I too changed.
How many years it be now
since last we said
It must be ten
our last meeting,
Yes, it must be ten
since our last meeting since our meeting.
Tell me is wrong?
Your letter
of a
some trial
you could not alone...
Oh, no, you tell me all doings!
me.
me
how you pass your how you pass your days
me
from the beginning. from the
me
everything
that's
we went our since we went our
separate ways. ways.
at me...
I not left these walls
these years,
I do not to do so!
I am imprisoned and is my gaoler.
word I speak
too dangerous.
My slightest act could about
the very thing I
But fear of
Hush, and I shall you...
you...
USHER I the light,
creep in the gloom like a toad, a worm,
tortured by the faintest of sun.
I hear...
oh God, if you only know the things I hear!
I hear the lake at the walls,
I hear bats
I the sky moan to join with the slime!
And this,
all like thunder to me,
thunder!
My senses at me:
Sight... Touch... Sight... Touch...
and Taste... Sound and Scent,
All and claw at my sanity.
There is no place for me,
for even in the of my rooms,
I hear the in conversation;
I hear the palpitations of my
I feel all that lives and not move
and know it my feeling.
My peace lies in my music
and only because it drowns out
all sounds and souls...
You may that I am mad, but it is not so.
My senses reel the blow of feathers falling
and more...
But no, I see you do not understand.
MONTRESOR Oh, my poor friend,
you see you are not well.
I've read of before,
I think it's Hyperaesthesis.
I'm no doctor, but clear
nerves have gone to pieces.
You to get away,
you a holiday,
you a change of air!
You an ocean cruise,
you to be amused!
I tell you plain, this
to me most unhealthy.
You're unattached, free to go, you're wealthy.
USHER THE CHORUS

Leave House.
Leave House.
Leave House
and away.
Leave House
I cannot!
Leave House!
I cannot!
this House!
Here I stay.
Here I stay.
You are
time.
He never
leave...
I can
here
do
not ask me
say no more I've of this before
and let me be I think it's called
I can never I'm no doctor but it's
leave here nerves have gone to pieces.
therefore do your have gone to pieces.
not ask me.
Say no
and let me be
I cannot
He leave
The is I
The is he
We are as one
are as one
And I die
and so die
Now you leave
I He leave
cannot Now you fly
The House is he
Now you run
The are as one
is No-one will die
I And so die
I cannot
Now you must
He cannot
The is I
Now you fly
The is he
We are as one
Now you run
and so die
and so die
No-one die
USHER MONTRESOR THE

We
not let
him go!
We not
let him go!
Do not me! this We shall not
Do not try to persuade! let him go!
We not
let him go!
It only me grief this We shall not
let him go!
Leave this We shall not
I leave let him go!
We not
let him go!
not let him go!
USHER MONTRESOR THE CHORUS THE
Leave House
I
Leave House
I
Leave this House Leave House
and come me We shall not
let him go.
Leave House
I cannot Never,
this House never!
I
Leave this
and come me Never! Never, never,
never!
Never! Never, never,
never!
I can We are bound
here together
therefore do for the last so never
not ask me I entreat you He shall he
say no more never leave leave
and let me be. We are

for the time so never
I entreat you He he shall
Leave! never leave leave.
Do not
talk to me
do not try
to Leave! never
He shall
never
Leave this
Oh never never
I beg of you never
I can never
leave never never
I can never never
leave this Leave this house never never
I can never You are never never
leave this Leave this house you time never never
I can never he will never never
leave this house Leave! never never
never!
The
is I.
End of Act Two