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"Annabel Lee/The Bells"
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album _The Raven_
(Lou Reed, 2003)

written by Lou Reed
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Annabel Lee:

        Let the burial rite begin
        The funeral song be sung
        An anthem for the queenliest dead
        That ever died so young

        Sweet Lenore has gone before
        Taking hope that flew beside
        Leaving instead the wild dead child
        That should have been your bride

        It was many and many a year ago
        In a kingdom by the sea
        She was a child and you were a child
        In the kingdom by the sea

        But the moon never beams
        The stars never rise
        No angels envy thee
        For Ligeia rests dead
        With three winged seraphs
        In this kingdom by the sea

        Wedded darkly
        Soul to soul
        You shrink in size
        Down to a mole
        And disappear into the hole
        Of the dark mind's imaginings

        Shrinking

        Shrinking

        Shrinking




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transcribed by Shiroh KOUCHI (wildside@mx21.tiki.ne.jp)
http://ww21.tiki.ne.jp/~wildside/
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