| We got EAP in the house tonight, Edgar Allan Poe
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| America’s favorite anti-transcendentalist
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| We’re taking this back, way back, nineteenth century style
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| Who’s that (who's that) rapping?
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| Who’s that rapping at my chamber door?
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| Mr. (mister) Raven!
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| All up in my grill like, «Nevermore.»
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| Kick it! |
| Once upon a midnight dreary, while I kicked it weak and weary
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| Dark and cold just like Lake Erie, Brand New sample, someone clear me
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| While I nodded nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping
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| Up like, «What?», this thunder clapping in my brain like graphic Halflings
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| Staffing me, I put down Milton. |
| Cell phone mute like Paris Hilton
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| Open window, halfway built-in. |
| Times a changing like Bob Dylan
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| Twenty-pound bird black as could be, cold feet cold eyes aimed straight at me
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| Grim face, grim stare, death carnivore, quothe that raven «Nevermore.»
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| REPEAT CHORUS
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| I miss Lenore, my Annabel Lee, taken by angels from me
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| Alone with books (hey that’s me!), harbinger of death visiting me
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| «Can I help you, evil prophet? |
| If you got a problem, look, I’ll solve it.»
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| He checked my hook, DJ revolved it, perched on Pallas, chalice dropped it
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| «Tell me sir, please, if you can. |
| Am I good or evil man?
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| What can I say, what can I do, when will I be rid of you?»
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| «Nevermore,» quothe he at me, hating on this fresh MC
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| Satanic raven, Nietzsche glee, killing me softly like the Fugees
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| Now I feel worse, my verse is terse, joy inverse just like Fred Durst
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| Call a nurse, disperse my thirst put this process in reverse
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| Wish I’d had some warning first, MC Lars, '88 hearse
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| Now I’ll never be Slug or Murs, under that black raven’s curse
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| The raven’s eyes still have the seeming of a demon that is dreaming
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| Lamplight over him still streaming, hear my screaming, hear me screaming!
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| My soul still floats there on that floor and shall be lifted nevermore
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| Afflicted calm, like Michael Moore, canonized piece, US folklore
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| REPEAT CHORUS
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| Whose house? |
| Raven’s house! |