The Raven

Track 2 on Tales of Mystery and Imagination: Edgar Allan Poe

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Based on Edgar Allan Poe’s poem of the same name, “The Raven” summarizes the poem’s story, in which a man is haunted by a raven who speaks only the word “nevermore,” and… Read More

May. 1, 19761 viewer7.5K views

The Raven Lyrics

The clock struck midnight
And through my sleeping
I heard a tapping at my door
I looked but nothing lay in the darkness
And so I turned inside once more

To my amazement
There stood a raven
Whose shadow hung above my door
Then through the silence
It spoke the one word
That I shall hear for evermore

Nevermore
Thus quoth the raven, nevermore

And still the raven remains in my room
No matter how much I implore
No words can soothe him
No prayer remove him
And I must hear for evermore

Quoth the raven, nevermore
Thus quoth the raven, nevermore
Quoth the raven, nevermore
Thus quoth the raven, nevermore
Nevermore, nevermore, nevermore, never
Nevermore, nevermore, never
Nevermore, nevermore, never
Nevermore, nevermore, nevermore, never
Nevermore, nevermore, never
Nevermore, nevermore, nevermore

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Based on Edgar Allan Poe’s poem of the same name, “The Raven” summarizes the poem’s story, in which a man is haunted by a raven who speaks only the word “nevermore,” and falls into madness and obsession with a woman he has lost. However, the song only tells the story until half-way of it.

This song is one of fairly few in The Alan Parsons Project’s discography to feature Alan Parsons' vocals; he sings the first verse, utilizing voice distortion via EMI vocoder, a concept this song helped to pioneer in the 1970s.