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.
and columns that shaft through 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 lady sleeps. oh, may her
which is so be deep!
Heaven hold her in its keep!
chamber changed for one more holy,
bed for one of melancholy.
I to God that she may lie
forever unopened eye
while the dim, sheeted go by.
My love, she sleeps. Oh, may her
as it is so be deep!
Soft may the around her creep!
Far in the forest, dim and old,
now may some tall enfold her;
some vault that oft flung its black
and winged panels 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!
Come let me help you with coat.
Sit and rest yourself.
Oh, so good to see you here!
Now tell me all news...
I see changed a bit, my friend...
Now you have a drink...
Yes, yes
but one at a time!
you must tell me what...
But I expect I too changed.
How many could it be now
since last we said
It must be ten
our last meeting,
Yes, it must be ten
since our meeting since our last meeting.
me what is wrong?
Your letter
of a
desperate trial
you not face alone...
Oh, no, you me all your 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 have not left walls
these years,
I do not to do so!
I am and fear is my gaoler.
Each I speak
too dangerous.
My slightest act bring about
the very I fear
But of what?
Hush, and I shall you...
you...
USHER I the light,
creep in the like a toad, a white worm,
tortured by the faintest of sun.
I hear...
oh God, if you could only know the I hear!
I the lake sucking at the walls,
I hear bats
I hear the sky to join with the slime!
And this,
all like thunder to me,
thunder!
My scream at me:
Sight... Touch... Sight... Touch...
Sound and Taste... and Scent,
All torment and at my sanity.
is no hiding place for me,
for even in the of my rooms,
I the walls in conversation;
I hear the palpitations of my
I all that lives and does not move
and it knows my feeling.
My only peace in my music
and only because it drowns out
all other 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 dear friend,
you see you are not well.
I've of this before,
I think it's Hyperaesthesis.
I'm no doctor, but it's
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.
unattached, you're free to go, you're wealthy.
USHER THE CHORUS

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

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

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