The Bells Lyrics

Song	The Bells
Artist	Eric Woolfson
Album	Poe More Tales of Mystery and Imagination
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[00:17.000]	Hear the sledges with the bells—
[00:19.000]	Silver bells!
[00:21.000]	What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
[00:24.000]	How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
[00:28.000]	In the icy air of night!
[00:29.000]	While the stars that oversprinkle
[00:30.000]	All the heavens, seem to twinkle
[00:32.000]	With a crystalline delight;
[00:34.000]	Keeping time, time, time,
[00:36.000]	In a sort of Runic rhyme,
[00:37.400]	To the tintinabulation that so musically wells
[00:42.000]	From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
[00:44.000]	Bells, bells, bells—
[00:45.000]	From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.
[00:54.000]	Hear the mellow wedding bells,
[00:57.000]	Golden bells!
[00:58.000]	What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!
[01:01.000]	Through the balmy air of night
[01:04.000]	How they ring out their delight!
[01:05.000]	From the molten-golden notes,
[01:08.000]	And all in tune,
[01:09.000]	What a liquid ditty floats
[01:11.800]	To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats
[01:15.000]	On the moon!
[01:15.900]	Oh, from out the sounding cells,
[01:17.000]	What a gush of euphony voluminously wells!
[01:21.000]	How it swells!
[01:21.900]	How it dwells
[01:23.500]	On the Future! how it tells
[01:24.500]	Of the rapture that impels
[01:25.500]	To the swinging and the ringing
[01:28.300]	Of the bells, bells, bells,
[01:30.000]	Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,
[01:32.000]	Bells, bells, bells—
[01:33.300]	To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!
[01:42.000]	Hear the loud alarum bells—
[01:45.000]	Brazen bells!
[01:46.000]	What tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!
[01:50.000]	In the startled ear of night
[01:51.800]	How they scream out their affright!
[01:53.000]	Too much horrified to speak,
[01:55.000]	They can only shriek, shriek,
[01:57.000]	Out of tune,
[01:59.500]	In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire,
[02:02.000]	In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire,
[02:06.000]	Leaping higher, higher, higher,
[02:08.000]	With a desperate desire,
[02:10.000]	And a resolute endeavor
[02:11.000]	Now—now to sit or never,
[02:13.000]	By the side of the pale-faced moon.
[02:16.500]	Oh, the bells, bells, bells!
[02:19.000]	What a tale their terror tells
[02:21.000]	Of Despair!
[02:22.500]	How they clang, and clash, and roar!
[02:24.000]	What a horror they outpour
[02:26.000]	On the bosom of the palpitating air!
[02:29.500]	Yet the ear it fully knows,
[02:32.000]	By the twanging,
[02:33.000]	And the clanging,
[02:33.500]	How the danger ebbs and flows;
[02:36.000]	Yet the ear distinctly tells,
[02:38.000]	In the jangling,
[02:39.000]	And the wrangling.
[02:40.000]	How the danger sinks and swells,
[02:43.000]	By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells—
[02:46.000]	Of the bells—
[02:47.800]	Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,
[02:50.000]	Bells, bells, bells—
[02:52.000]	In the clamor and the clangor of the bells!
[03:42.000]	Hear the tolling of the bells—
[03:44.000]	Iron bells!
[03:45.200]	What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!
[03:49.000]	In the silence of the night,
[03:50.800]	How we shiver with affright
[03:52.800]	At the melancholy menace of their tone!
[03:55.800]	For every sound that floats
[03:58.000]	From the rust within their throats
[04:00.000]	Is a groan.
[04:02.000]	And the people—ah, the people—
[04:04.000]	They that dwell up in the steeple,
[04:05.300]	All alone,
[04:06.000]	And who tolling, tolling, tolling,
[04:09.000]	In that muffled monotone,
[04:11.000]	Feel a glory in so rolling
[04:13.000]	On the human heart a stone—
[04:15.000]	They are neither man nor woman—
[04:16.000]	They are neither brute nor human—
[04:17.800]	They are Ghouls:
[04:19.000]	And their king it is who tolls;
[04:21.800]	And he rolls, rolls, rolls,
[04:23.000]	Rolls
[04:23.400]	A pæan from the bells!
[04:24.800]	And his merry bosom swells
[04:27.000]	With the pæan of the bells!
[04:30.700]	And he dances, and he yells;
[04:32.900]	Keeping time, time, time,
[04:34.000]	In a sort of Runic rhyme,
[04:36.000]	To the pæan of the bells—
[04:38.000]	Of the bells:
[04:40.000]	Keeping time, time, time,
[04:42.000]	In a sort of Runic rhyme,
[04:23.000]	To the throbbing of the bells—
[04:45.000]	Of the bells, bells, bells—
[04:47.000]	To the sobbing of the bells;
[04:49.000]	Keeping time, time, time,
[04:51.000]	As he knells, knells, knells,
[04:52.000]	In a happy Runic rhyme,
[04:54.000]	To the rolling of the bells—
[04:56.000]	Of the bells, bells, bells—
[04:58.000]	To the tolling of the bells,
[05:01.000]	Of the bells, bells, bells, bells—
[05:04.000]	Bells, bells, bells—
[05:05.300]	Of the bells, bells, bells, bells—
[05:08.000]	Bells, bells, bells—
[05:09.500]	To the moaning and the groaning of the bells.
[05:18.000]	Bells, bells, bells—
[05:24.000]	Bells, bells—
[05:27.500]	Of the bells!

[00:17.000]	Hear the sledges with the bells
[00:19.000]	Silver bells!
[00:21.000]	What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
[00:24.000]	How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
[00:28.000]	In the icy air of night!
[00:29.000]	While the stars that oversprinkle
[00:30.000]	All the heavens, seem to twinkle
[00:32.000]	With a crystalline delight
[00:34.000]	Keeping time, time, time,
[00:36.000]	In a sort of Runic rhyme,
[00:37.400]	To the tintinabulation that so musically wells
[00:42.000]	From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
[00:44.000]	Bells, bells, bells
[00:45.000]	From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.
[00:54.000]	Hear the mellow wedding bells,
[00:57.000]	Golden bells!
[00:58.000]	What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!
[01:01.000]	Through the balmy air of night
[01:04.000]	How they ring out their delight!
[01:05.000]	From the molten-golden notes,
[01:08.000]	And all in tune,
[01:09.000]	What a liquid ditty floats
[01:11.800]	To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats
[01:15.000]	On the moon!
[01:15.900]	Oh, from out the sounding cells,
[01:17.000]	What a gush of euphony voluminously wells!
[01:21.000]	How it swells!
[01:21.900]	How it dwells
[01:23.500]	On the Future! how it tells
[01:24.500]	Of the rapture that impels
[01:25.500]	To the swinging and the ringing
[01:28.300]	Of the bells, bells, bells,
[01:30.000]	Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,
[01:32.000]	Bells, bells, bells
[01:33.300]	To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!
[01:42.000]	Hear the loud alarum bells
[01:45.000]	Brazen bells!
[01:46.000]	What tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!
[01:50.000]	In the startled ear of night
[01:51.800]	How they scream out their affright!
[01:53.000]	Too much horrified to speak,
[01:55.000]	They can only shriek, shriek,
[01:57.000]	Out of tune,
[01:59.500]	In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire,
[02:02.000]	In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire,
[02:06.000]	Leaping higher, higher, higher,
[02:08.000]	With a desperate desire,
[02:10.000]	And a resolute endeavor
[02:11.000]	Now now to sit or never,
[02:13.000]	By the side of the pale-faced moon.
[02:16.500]	Oh, the bells, bells, bells!
[02:19.000]	What a tale their terror tells
[02:21.000]	Of Despair!
[02:22.500]	How they clang, and clash, and roar!
[02:24.000]	What a horror they outpour
[02:26.000]	On the bosom of the palpitating air!
[02:29.500]	Yet the ear it fully knows,
[02:32.000]	By the twanging,
[02:33.000]	And the clanging,
[02:33.500]	How the danger ebbs and flows
[02:36.000]	Yet the ear distinctly tells,
[02:38.000]	In the jangling,
[02:39.000]	And the wrangling.
[02:40.000]	How the danger sinks and swells,
[02:43.000]	By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells
[02:46.000]	Of the bells
[02:47.800]	Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,
[02:50.000]	Bells, bells, bells
[02:52.000]	In the clamor and the clangor of the bells!
[03:42.000]	Hear the tolling of the bells
[03:44.000]	Iron bells!
[03:45.200]	What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!
[03:49.000]	In the silence of the night,
[03:50.800]	How we shiver with affright
[03:52.800]	At the melancholy menace of their tone!
[03:55.800]	For every sound that floats
[03:58.000]	From the rust within their throats
[04:00.000]	Is a groan.
[04:02.000]	And the people ah, the people
[04:04.000]	They that dwell up in the steeple,
[04:05.300]	All alone,
[04:06.000]	And who tolling, tolling, tolling,
[04:09.000]	In that muffled monotone,
[04:11.000]	Feel a glory in so rolling
[04:13.000]	On the human heart a stone
[04:15.000]	They are neither man nor woman
[04:16.000]	They are neither brute nor human
[04:17.800]	They are Ghouls:
[04:19.000]	And their king it is who tolls
[04:21.800]	And he rolls, rolls, rolls,
[04:23.000]	Rolls
[04:23.400]	A p an from the bells!
[04:24.800]	And his merry bosom swells
[04:27.000]	With the p an of the bells!
[04:30.700]	And he dances, and he yells
[04:32.900]	Keeping time, time, time,
[04:34.000]	In a sort of Runic rhyme,
[04:36.000]	To the p an of the bells
[04:38.000]	Of the bells:
[04:40.000]	Keeping time, time, time,
[04:42.000]	In a sort of Runic rhyme,
[04:23.000]	To the throbbing of the bells
[04:45.000]	Of the bells, bells, bells
[04:47.000]	To the sobbing of the bells
[04:49.000]	Keeping time, time, time,
[04:51.000]	As he knells, knells, knells,
[04:52.000]	In a happy Runic rhyme,
[04:54.000]	To the rolling of the bells
[04:56.000]	Of the bells, bells, bells
[04:58.000]	To the tolling of the bells,
[05:01.000]	Of the bells, bells, bells, bells
[05:04.000]	Bells, bells, bells
[05:05.300]	Of the bells, bells, bells, bells
[05:08.000]	Bells, bells, bells
[05:09.500]	To the moaning and the groaning of the bells.
[05:18.000]	Bells, bells, bells
[05:24.000]	Bells, bells
[05:27.500]	Of the bells!

[00:17.000]	Hear the sledges with the bells
[00:19.000]	Silver bells!
[00:21.000]	What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
[00:24.000]	How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
[00:28.000]	In the icy air of night!
[00:29.000]	While the stars that oversprinkle
[00:30.000]	All the heavens, seem to twinkle
[00:32.000]	With a crystalline delight
[00:34.000]	Keeping time, time, time,
[00:36.000]	In a sort of Runic rhyme,
[00:37.400]	To the tintinabulation that so musically wells
[00:42.000]	From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
[00:44.000]	Bells, bells, bells
[00:45.000]	From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.
[00:54.000]	Hear the mellow wedding bells,
[00:57.000]	Golden bells!
[00:58.000]	What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!
[01:01.000]	Through the balmy air of night
[01:04.000]	How they ring out their delight!
[01:05.000]	From the molten-golden notes,
[01:08.000]	And all in tune,
[01:09.000]	What a liquid ditty floats
[01:11.800]	To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats
[01:15.000]	On the moon!
[01:15.900]	Oh, from out the sounding cells,
[01:17.000]	What a gush of euphony voluminously wells!
[01:21.000]	How it swells!
[01:21.900]	How it dwells
[01:23.500]	On the Future! how it tells
[01:24.500]	Of the rapture that impels
[01:25.500]	To the swinging and the ringing
[01:28.300]	Of the bells, bells, bells,
[01:30.000]	Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,
[01:32.000]	Bells, bells, bells
[01:33.300]	To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!
[01:42.000]	Hear the loud alarum bells
[01:45.000]	Brazen bells!
[01:46.000]	What tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!
[01:50.000]	In the startled ear of night
[01:51.800]	How they scream out their affright!
[01:53.000]	Too much horrified to speak,
[01:55.000]	They can only shriek, shriek,
[01:57.000]	Out of tune,
[01:59.500]	In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire,
[02:02.000]	In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire,
[02:06.000]	Leaping higher, higher, higher,
[02:08.000]	With a desperate desire,
[02:10.000]	And a resolute endeavor
[02:11.000]	Now now to sit or never,
[02:13.000]	By the side of the pale-faced moon.
[02:16.500]	Oh, the bells, bells, bells!
[02:19.000]	What a tale their terror tells
[02:21.000]	Of Despair!
[02:22.500]	How they clang, and clash, and roar!
[02:24.000]	What a horror they outpour
[02:26.000]	On the bosom of the palpitating air!
[02:29.500]	Yet the ear it fully knows,
[02:32.000]	By the twanging,
[02:33.000]	And the clanging,
[02:33.500]	How the danger ebbs and flows
[02:36.000]	Yet the ear distinctly tells,
[02:38.000]	In the jangling,
[02:39.000]	And the wrangling.
[02:40.000]	How the danger sinks and swells,
[02:43.000]	By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells
[02:46.000]	Of the bells
[02:47.800]	Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,
[02:50.000]	Bells, bells, bells
[02:52.000]	In the clamor and the clangor of the bells!
[03:42.000]	Hear the tolling of the bells
[03:44.000]	Iron bells!
[03:45.200]	What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!
[03:49.000]	In the silence of the night,
[03:50.800]	How we shiver with affright
[03:52.800]	At the melancholy menace of their tone!
[03:55.800]	For every sound that floats
[03:58.000]	From the rust within their throats
[04:00.000]	Is a groan.
[04:02.000]	And the people ah, the people
[04:04.000]	They that dwell up in the steeple,
[04:05.300]	All alone,
[04:06.000]	And who tolling, tolling, tolling,
[04:09.000]	In that muffled monotone,
[04:11.000]	Feel a glory in so rolling
[04:13.000]	On the human heart a stone
[04:15.000]	They are neither man nor woman
[04:16.000]	They are neither brute nor human
[04:17.800]	They are Ghouls:
[04:19.000]	And their king it is who tolls
[04:21.800]	And he rolls, rolls, rolls,
[04:23.000]	Rolls
[04:23.400]	A p an from the bells!
[04:24.800]	And his merry bosom swells
[04:27.000]	With the p an of the bells!
[04:30.700]	And he dances, and he yells
[04:32.900]	Keeping time, time, time,
[04:34.000]	In a sort of Runic rhyme,
[04:36.000]	To the p an of the bells
[04:38.000]	Of the bells:
[04:40.000]	Keeping time, time, time,
[04:42.000]	In a sort of Runic rhyme,
[04:23.000]	To the throbbing of the bells
[04:45.000]	Of the bells, bells, bells
[04:47.000]	To the sobbing of the bells
[04:49.000]	Keeping time, time, time,
[04:51.000]	As he knells, knells, knells,
[04:52.000]	In a happy Runic rhyme,
[04:54.000]	To the rolling of the bells
[04:56.000]	Of the bells, bells, bells
[04:58.000]	To the tolling of the bells,
[05:01.000]	Of the bells, bells, bells, bells
[05:04.000]	Bells, bells, bells
[05:05.300]	Of the bells, bells, bells, bells
[05:08.000]	Bells, bells, bells
[05:09.500]	To the moaning and the groaning of the bells.
[05:18.000]	Bells, bells, bells
[05:24.000]	Bells, bells
[05:27.500]	Of the bells!

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