A E D A D A B7 E  A E D A  D E A
A    A6sus  Amaj7sus2  D5  C5  B5  A  x2


[Verse 1]
           A            E           D         A
Thro’ the ghoul-guarded gateways of slumber,
         D          A          B7      E
Past the wan-moon’d abysses of night,
       A             E             D        A
I have liv’d o’er my lives without number,
       D           E              A
I have sounded all things with my sight;
      A            E              D          A
And I struggle and shriek ere the daybreak,
      D         E             A x2     A6sus x2
being driven to madness with fright.


[Chorus]
          A              E              D       A
 I have whirl’d with the earth at the dawning,
          D         A        B7      E
 When the sky was a vaporous flame;
        A             E        D        A
 I have seen the dark universe yawning,
           D             E            A
 Where the black planets roll without aim;


[Interlude]
          F#m                   B7
Where they roll in their horror unheeded
F#m                    B7        E    D   A/C#   E7
  without knowledge or lustre or name.


[Chorus]
       A             E           D       A
I had drifted o’er seas without ending,
      D        A           B7      E
Under sinister grey-clouded skies
         A           E            D         A
That the many-fork’d lightning is rending,
      D           E           A
That resound with hysterical cries;

[Verse Style]
            A          E          D   A
With the moans of invisible daemons
    D                 E         A
that out of the green waters rise.


[Interlude]
A    A6sus  Amaj7sus2  D5  C5  B5  A  x2


[Verse 2]
        A              E               D         A
 I have plung’d like a deer thro’ the arches
        D      A          B7     E
 Of the hoary primordial grove,
            A             E             D          A
 Where the oaks feel the presence that marches
            D            E            A  x2   A6sus x2
 And stalks on where no spirit dares rove;

 [Cut] And I flee from a thing that surrounds me, and leers thro’ dead branches above.


[Chorus]
          A         E            D       A
 I have stumbled by cave-ridden mountains
            D         A               B7     E
 That rise barren and bleak from the plain,
        A            E           D       A
 I have drunk of the fog-foetid fountains
      D               E              A
 That ooze down to the marsh and the main;


[Interlude]
       F#m                     B7
And in hot cursed tarns I have seen
F#m                  B7       E  D A/C# E7
things I care not to gaze on again.


[Verse 3]
       A                E         D       A
I have scann’d the vast ivy-clad palace,
       D        A          B7    E
I have trod its untenanted hall,
          A             E            D       A
Where the moon writhing up from the valleys
          D          E              A
Shews the tapestried things on the wall;
        A       E            D      A
Strange figures discordantly woven
        D      E         A  x2     A6sus x2
which I cannot endure to recall.


[Chorus]
        A              E            D       A
I have peer’d from the casement in wonder
        D          A        B7     E
 At the mouldering meadows around,
         A          E              D     A
 At the many-roof’d village laid under
     D          E            A
 The curse of a grave-girdled ground;

 [Cut - And from rows of white urn-carven marble I listen intently for sound.]


[Solo]
F#m  F#m/E  B7  D
F#m  F#m/E  B7  D
F#m  F#m/E  B7  B7  E  E7  E6  E/B


[Chorus]
       A           E            D     A
I have haunted the tombs of the ages,
       D            A          B7     E
I have flown on the pinions of fear
          A              E      D      A
Where the smoke-belching Erebus rages,
          D            E             A
Where the jokulls loom snow-clad and drear:
        A                E          D      A
And in realms where the sun of the desert
   D             E         A
consumes what it never can cheer.


[Interlude]
A    A6sus  A maj7sus2  D5  C5  B5  A   x2


[Verse 4]
        A           E              D       A
 I was old when the Pharaohs first mounted
     D            A              B7    E
 The jewel-deck’d throne by the Nile;
       A            E         D       A
 I was old in those epochs uncounted
      D        E          A x2   A6sus x2
 When I, and I only, was vile;


[Chorus]
      A           E            D    A
Oh, great was the sin of my spirit,
        D          A             B7  E
 And great is the reach of its doom;
         A          E         D       A
 Not the pity of Heaven can cheer it,
          D          E           A
 Nor can respite be found in the tomb:


[Interlude]
F#m              B7
Down the infinite aeons
     F#m                     B7      E  D A/C# E7
come beating the wings of unmerciful gloom.


[Chorus]
          A             E            D      A
Thro’ the ghoul-guarded gateways of slumber,
         D          A          B7      E
Past the wan-moon’d abysses of night,
       A             E             D      A
I have liv’d o’er my lives without number,
        D           E             A
I have sounded all things with my sight;

      A             E             D        A
And I struggle and shriek ere the daybreak
      D         E             A
being driven to madness with fright.