Similar to "The Raven," this song shares a lot of lyrics with Poe's short story. Definitely the best track of the album and an essential to any Halloween party playlist. Like a rock opera, there's wailing guitars, chanting that makes you want to pump your fist in the air, melodious ethereal vocals and Edgar Allan Poe. Then it drops into a more stereo, catchy song at "to my amazement/there stood a raven" and goes from there. The song begins with a robot voice introducing not the poem's "Once upon a midnight dreary." but "The clock struck midnight"-pretty close in content. My 9 year old ears perked up: "What is that?" My dad somehow was playing this on our way home-maybe on a CD or via the most obscure radio station, I'm unsure. This is my introduction to Edgar Allan Poe and subsequently, horror as a genre. One of my all time favorite songs, maybe technically a guilty pleasure. The tone is dramatic, sure, but the hopelessness of the poem is lost in the funky bass line leading up to I honestly would've never pinned this work (favorite line: "O God! Can I not save/ one from the pitiless wave?/ Is all that we see or seem/ But a dream within a dream?") to this song. My favorite poem of Poe's is now translated into a funkier, groovier rendition.
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