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Lou Reed - The Tell-Tale Heart (Pt. 1) Lyrics

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  • True
  • Nervous
  • very nervous
  • Madman
  • Why will you say that I am mad
  • The disease has sharpened my senses
  • not destroyed
  • not dulled them
  • Madman
  • The eye of a vulture
  • a pale blue eye
  • with a film overit
  • Listen
  • observe how healthily
  • and how calmly I tell this story
  • He had no passion for the old man
  • He was never insulted
  • He loved him
  • It was the eye the eye the eye
  • I made up my mind
  • To take his life forever
  • Passionless
  • The eye of a vulture
  • You should have seen me
  • How wisely I proceeded
  • To rid himself of the eye forever
  • With what dissimulation I went to work
  • Caution
  • I turned the latch on his door
  • and opened it
  • To work
  • To practice
  • I opened his door
  • and put in a dark lantern
  • Dark
  • Slowly I put my head in
  • Slowly I thrust it until in time Ientered
  • I was in so far
  • He was in so far
  • he could see the old man sleep
  • And then I undid the lantern so a thin ray
  • fell upon the eye
  • The vulture eye
  • He did this for seven days
  • Seven days
  • But always the eye was closed
  • and so I could not do the work
  • And in the day he would greet the old man
  • calmly in his chamber
  • Calmly
  • Nothing is wrong and all is well
  • Knock, knock
  • who's there
  • Came night eight
  • Night eight
  • I was slower than a watch minute hand
  • The power that I had with the old man
  • not to even dream my secret thoughts
  • Secret thoughts
  • My sagacity
  • I could barely conceal my feelings of triumph
  • When suddenly the body moved
  • The body moved
  • But I went in even further
  • pushing the door open even further
  • Who's there
  • Who's there
  • I did not move a muscle
  • I kept quiet and still
  • The old man sat up in bed
  • In his bed
  • Who's there
  • I heard a groan
  • and knew it was a groan of mortal terror
  • not pain or grief
  • Oh no
  • It was the low stifled sound that arises
  • from the bottom of the soul
  • when overcharged with awe
  • I felt such awe welling up in my own bosom
  • deepening with its echo the terrors that distracted me
  • Knowing what the old man felt and
  • Pitying him
  • Although it made me laugh
  • Ha ha
  • He'd been lying awake since the first slight noise
  • He'd been lying awake thinking
  • Thinking
  • It is nothing but the wind
  • The wind
  • It is nothing but the house settling
  • The old man stalked with his black shadow
  • Death approaching
  • The mournful presence of the unperceived
  • causing him to feel my presence
  • Open the lantern
  • I saw the ray fall on the eye
  • On the eye

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