The Tell-Tale Heart

The Alan Parsons Project * Track #3 On Tales of Mystery and Imagination: Edgar Allan Poe

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Album Tales of Mystery and Imagination: Edgar Allan Poe

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The Alan Parsons Project

1976

The Tell-Tale Heart by The Alan Parsons Project

Performed by

The Alan Parsons Project

Produced by

Alan Parsons

Writed by

Alan Parsons & Eric Woolfson & Edgar Allan Poe

About

“The Tell-Tale Heart” is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1843. It is relayed by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the reader of his sanity while simultaneously describing a murder he committed. The victim was an old man with a filmy “vulture-eye”, as...

The Tell-Tale Heart Lyrics

You should have seen him
Lying alone in helpless silence in the night
You should have seen him
You would have seen his eye reflecting in the light

So for the old man
Ashes to ashes, earth to earth and dust to dust
No one will see me
No one with guilt to share, no secret soul to trust

And he won't be found at all
Not a trace to mark his fall
Nor a stain upon the wall

Louder and louder
Till I could tell the sound was not within my ears
You should have seen me
You would have seen my eyes grow white and cold with fear

Heard all the things in Heaven and Earth
I've seen many things in Hell
But his vulture's eye of a cold pale blue
Is the eye of the Devil himself

Take me away now
But let the silence drown the beating of his heart
I can't go on
Let me be free from this guilty secret that I carry
Please set me free

The Tell-Tale Heart Q&A

Who wrote The Tell-Tale Heart's ?

The Tell-Tale Heart was written by Alan Parsons & Eric Woolfson & Edgar Allan Poe.