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Lyrics for The Tell-Tale Heart (Part 1) by LOU REED:
| | | Artist: | LOU REED |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | The Tell-Tale Heart (Part 1) | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 79 | | | | Lyrics: | 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
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