Usher, Part 1 Ghost Quartet (Ft. Brent Arnold, Brittain Ashford, Dave Malloy & Gelsey Bell)

[BRENT]
Side 1, Track 5. “Usher, Part One.”

[GELSEY (Lady Usher)]
I suffer from a family evil
I am a slave to terror

I have a morbid acuteness of the senses
I only eat the most insipid foods
Only wear garments of certain textures
The odors of flowers are oppressive to me
My eyes are tortured by faint light

And there are only certain peculiar sounds
Like those from stringed instruments
Which do not inspire me with horror

I dread the future
My little girl is dying

[DAVE (Edgar)]
ON A DULL, DARK, AND SOUNDLESS DAY
IN THE AUTUMN OF 1873
MY WIFE AND I SAT AT THE BED OF OUR ONLY DAUGHTER
ROXIE