Clandestine (The Eighth Night) ft. Death Rattler Lyrics

Black as pitch

I crept open the door

My hand slips

The old man awakens

Keeping still, i hold my breath

For an hour as he sat up

Listening just as i have

Night after night

I resolved to open up a

Crevice in my lantern

With a spiders thread

Ray of light i saw the eye

It was open wide and i could

See in full distinctness

Chilled the very marrow in my bones

Drop the lantern

hear him screaming

Not for long

Suffocation

Night is waning

Dismemberment

Bury the evidence

Under the floorboards

And if you still think me mad

You will think so no longer

When i describe to you

The wise precautions i took

For the concealment of the body

The night waned

And i worked hastily, but in silence

First of all, i dismembered the corpse

Cut off the head and the arms and the legs

I then took up three planks from the flooring of the chamber and deposited all between the scantlings

I then replaced the boards so cleverly, so cunningly, that no human eye, not even his could have detected any thing wrong

There was nothing to wash out no stain of any kind no blood spot whatever

I had been too wary for that

A tub had caught all, ha! ha!

When I had made an end of these labors it was four o 'clock, still dark as midnight

As the bell sounded the hour there came a knocking at the street door

I went down to open it with a light heart for what had I now to fear?

There entered three men who introduced themselves with perfect suavity as officers of the police.