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
is enduring so be deep!
Heaven hold her in its keep!
This chamber changed for one holy,
bed for one of melancholy.
I pray to God she may lie
with unopened eye
while the dim, sheeted go by.
My love, she sleeps. Oh, may her
as it is so be deep!
Soft may the worms her creep!
Far in the forest, dim and old,
now may some vault enfold her;
vault that oft hath flung its black
and winged panels fluttering
triumphant o'er the palls
of her family funerals....
MONTRESOR

I mean to interrupt...
Montresor, you came!
Did you think I'd ignore 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 changed a bit, my friend...
Now you have a drink...
Yes, yes
but one at a time!
First you must me what...
But I expect I too changed.
How many years it be now
since we said farewell?
It must be ten
our last meeting,
Yes, it must be ten
since our last meeting our last meeting.
me what is wrong?
Your letter
of a
desperate trial
you could not alone...
Oh, no, you me all your doings!
me.
me
how you pass your days how you your days
me
from the beginning. from the
me
everything
that's
since we went our since we our
ways. separate ways.
at me...
I have not these walls
three years,
I do not to do so!
I am imprisoned and is my gaoler.
Each I speak
too dangerous.
My slightest act bring about
the very thing I
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 gleam 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 this like to me,
thunder!
My senses at me:
Sight... Touch... Sight... Touch...
Sound and Taste... and Scent,
All and claw at my sanity.
is no hiding 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 does not
and know it my feeling.
My only peace lies in my
and then because it drowns out
all sounds and souls...
You may think I am mad, but it is not so.
My senses reel beneath the blow of feathers
and more...
But no, I see you do not understand.
Oh, my poor dear friend,
you see you are not well.
I've of this before,
I think it's Hyperaesthesis.
I'm no doctor, but clear
your nerves have to pieces.
You to get away,
you a holiday,
you need a of air!
You need an cruise,
you to be amused!
I tell you plain, this
to me seems unhealthy.
You're unattached, free to go, you're wealthy.
MONTRESOR THE CHORUS

Leave House.
this House.
Leave this
and away.
Leave this
I cannot!
this House!
I cannot!
Leave House!
I must 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 it's called Hyperaesthesis
I can never I'm no doctor but it's
leave here your nerves gone to pieces.
therefore do nerves have gone 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 leave
I He cannot
cannot Now you fly
leave The is he
Now you run
The are as one
House is No-one die
I And so die
I cannot
Now you must
He leave
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 torture me! 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 House We shall not
I cannot let him go!
We not
let him go!
not let him go!
USHER MONTRESOR THE CHORUS THE
this House
I
Leave this
I
Leave this House this House
and with me We shall not
let him go.
Leave this
I Never, never
this House never!
I
Leave House
and come me Never! Never, never,
never!
Never! Never, never,
never!
I can never We are
here together
therefore do for the last time so
not ask me I you He shall he shall
say no more leave never leave
and let me be. We are

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