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!