Amontillado, Edgar Allan Flow

[Intro – whispered] Once upon a midnight dreary… Some debts… must be paid in silence. Edgar Allan Flow. [Verse 1] Old friend smiling with a carnival grin Mask on his face and the wine on his breath But the laugh in his throat had a blade in it And the memory cut like the promise of death Years of insult buried in stone Every slight carved deep in the bone Some men shout when revenge gets near I pour the wine and whisper “come here” Said I found a cask in the cellar below Rare Amontillado nobody should know Lantern glow and the damp walls sweat Down in the dark where the bones all rest [Pre-Chorus] Step by step where the echoes crawl Dust and chains on the ancient wall Every laugh in the tunnel bend One step closer to the bitter end [Chorus] Amontillado down below Follow the lantern’s fading glow Deep where the cold winds never blow That’s where old debts go Amontillado stone by stone Every sin gets set in bone Walls go up where the truth was shown Now the dark is home [Verse 2] Cough in his chest from the moldy air But pride keep pushing him deeper in there Said “turn back friend” with a patient tone Knowing damn well he would press on Iron ring in the granite wall Chains went tight in the shadowed hall Drunken laugh turned slow to dread When the final brick rose overhead Trowel in hand where the mortar spread Every word that he begged I said “Rest in peace where the catacombs grow All for a taste of Amontillado” [Bridge] Tap… tap… on the rising seam Like a hammer striking a buried dream One last cry in the lantern glow Then silence swallowed the echo slow [Final Chorus] Amontillado down below Follow the lantern’s fading glow Deep where the cold winds never blow That’s where old debts go Amontillado stone by stone Every sin gets set in bone Walls go up where the truth was shown Now the dark is home [Outro – quiet] For half a century… no hand disturbed those stones. Amontillado.