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The Bells (Live)
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Now I don't remember the words to these songs, I don't think, at least one verse, but um. On Poetry and Song, one of the, one of the first songs I wrote was, was off of, setting a poem to music was Edgar Allan Poe. Certain poems are really songs in disguise. Poe wrote a poem called "The Bells" based a lot on the sound of words. And I'll do what I can remember of what I wrote six years ago, to the idea of melody. Hear the slеdges with the bells Silvеr bell What a tale of merriment Their melody foretell How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle In the icy air of night All the heavens seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight Keeping time, time, time With a sort of Runic rhyme From the tintinnabulation That so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells Hear the mellow wedding bells Golden bells What a world of happiness Their harmony foretells Through the balmy air of night How they ring out their delight Through the dances and the yells And the rapture that impels How it swells How it dwells On the future How it tells From the swinging and the ringing of the molten golden bells Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells Hear the mellow golden bells Golden bells What a world of merriment Their melody foretells How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle In the icy air of night All the heavens seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight Keeping time, time, time With a sort of Runic rhyme From the tintinnabulation That so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells That's a, that's a poem. That's a, that's a poem that you might have suffered through in high school poetry class or something. But there's life, I mean there's life to it. I want to do another one, I hope I remember this one. This is uh–
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