On a dreary night
You sit alone
Bathed in candlelight
Your love has flown
Always hanging on
Privo impune
Timbered latticework
Is your cocoon

Then a raven's call
Gives you commands
Busted palisade
Where it stands
I'm trying to tell you boy
It's a charade
You won't realize
'Til you've decayed

Don't understand why you exist
The praise you're giving is a primitive lie
I'm not the crime you feign -in vain
Who'll take your soul, be your angel, and die

Blackbird, lionize
Midnight to sunrise
Cataleptic vision
Esprit de corps
Heartbeat doldrums
Into the maelstroms
Using up the man
Lifted nevermore

You're sewn together boy
The sequins have split
You're the pendulum
That circles the pit
Fatal epigrams
With shadows beneath
So catatonic, it's like
I'm pulling teeth

You've been mesmerized
Found in the casks
Seven chambers of
Multiple masques
And you want me to say
Thou art the man
Like some make believe
Orangutan

Don't understand why you resist
Your serenade is through your spectacle-sight
Sign of malign you take...awake
The iron groan of a bell out of spite

Not to take my flight
-Lenore

Black bird...

Black bird, no dirge shall I upraise...
A paean of old days

Don't understand why you persist
My oval painting is a thing of deprive
Tied to your pride and hate, I wait
It's so you'll know I've been buried alive

Black bird swan song
Heart shape is oblong
Banging on the bricks
From behind the wall
Browbeat wild hog
Torchlight from Hop-Frog
Murdering yourself
And your house will fall
(Take it all)

Black bird's tether
Quoth Tarr and Fether
Living an offense
Through an evil eye
Cognac roses
Gold-Bug composes
Sever the descent
That you glorify

...Black bird