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Hear me speak!

I toil, the sweat in my eyes

Makes me blind.

You’re covered up, my work is done.

Now I feel relieved, I’m

In control.

Your eye will haunt me no more.

I’m not insane though you might

Think I am.

True, very dreadfully nervous

I have been.

I loved you, you’d never

Done me wrong,

It was your pale vulture’s eye.

I - remember it still:

Haunting eye, omen of ill.

I - made up my mind

To rid myself of the eye…

Forever!

Forever!

For seven nights I gazed and

Watched your sleep,

My lantern seeking your

Evil eye.

The eighth night rewarded me:

My light fell upon the vulture eye.

I - brought you down,

Smothered, pounded to the ground.

I - concealed your corpse

Cleverly underneath floorboards.

Hidden!

Forever!

I - stopped your heart,

Destroyed the eye, tore you apart.

I - concealed your corpse

Safely underneath floorboards.

I can tell something is odd,

I fell less like a god.

And now I hear it and start:

From underneath the beating of a heart.

Villains!

Dissemble no more!

I admit the deed!

Tear up the planks!

Here, here beats the hideous heart!