Peter Hammill - "The evil that is done" lyrics

MONTRESOR So that is Usher's idea of a doctor! That wretched mountebank can't help them. I confront madness face to face! And whatever it's cause, it lies within this place I breathe an atmosphere of sorrow; an alien despair makes my courage fail, like the collapse of an opium vision, the hideous dropping of the veil CHORUS Tormented by a thousand doubts and fancies, he will not sleep tonight. Chilled by the gloom of his surroundings, mortal, half-dead mortar. MONTRESOR CHORUS He will not sleep! I see simple solutions He will not sleep! State them laud and clear, but the echoes of the House He will not sleep! shout 'Unreason!' The one thing that I fear. The evil that is done cannot be undone. The evil that will come cannot be prevented. The evil that is done Yet somehow I must help these two tormented souls, cannot be undone. for if I cannot, who will? The evil that will come These are the friends I've loved so dearly... cannot be prevented Leave! No! What a monstrous thought! Depart! How could I even think of it! Go! Abandon those who have need of me! Leave! Oh, but what a temptation, Depart! to run like a thief in the night, Go! And yet now I cannot because it is too late Before it is too late, I feel myself bound up in before you are bound up in the web of fear and pain, the web of fear and pain, the evil that surrounds me. the evil that surrounds you. It cannot be undone. It cannot be undone. The evil that will come cannot be prevented.