(In which the boyhoods of Dr. Knox and William Hare mold their decrepit destinies)
“…From my earliest childhood I have been a dreamer and a visionary…. I have dwelt ever apart from the visible world. Well did I come to know the presiding dryads of those trees, and often have I watched their wild dances in the struggling beams of a waning moon – but of these things I must not now speak. I will tell only of the lone tomb in the darkest of the hillside thickets….” – H.P Lovecraft, The Tomb
Dr. Knox: Mem’ry haunts me clearly
The winter of my thirteenth year
Wind moaned through headstones dreary
A siren song only I could hear
A fevered brain infected
Where terrors spawned each night
A young man grew dejected
A waking dream, a fright amongst frights
Dr. Knox: Though my symptoms at last abated
And the coughing fits did surcease
An insalubrious nature gestated
Breeding malaise, a subtle disease
Narrator: Then with each pa**ing breath
In life, he dwelt in d**h
Dr. Knox: This truth I now confess:
Dr. Knox: A morbid mind obsessed
Unhealthy thoughts depressed
By cryptic dreams possessed
To ever dwell among, the lifeless
Lifeless!
Hare: A casket-builder’s low-born boy
Child of the grave in name and fact
Grey days and nights in dark employ
Set destiny ‘pon its d**hly path
Hare: Dismissed as morbid youth
Obsessions quite uncouth
Led to unpleasant truths
Hare / Dr. Knox: A morbid mind obsessed
Unhealthy thoughts depressed
By cryptic dreams possessed
To ever dwell among, the lifeless
As all life ends in d**h
So with each pa**ing breath
My destiny professed
To ever dwell among, the lifeless
Dr. Knox: Into the family crypt, I stealthily crept
Knowing not what I sought ‘mongst the mold and the rot
A sight that was not soon forgot
And as I lay in the grave, finding the solace I’d craved
At peace there with the decayed, though they called me depraved
It was there a dark path was paved
Solo – Matthew Harvey
Solo – Michael Burke
Dr. Knox / Hare: A morbid mind obsessed
Unhealthy thoughts depressed
By cryptic dreams possessed
To ever dwell among, the lifeless
As all life ends in d**h
So with each pa**ing breath
A destiny professed
To ever dwell among, the lifeless