Tear Up the Floor

[Verse 1] In the sprawl of neon rain, under flickering spires I lived with the old man, eyes like burning wires His vulture lens glowed cold in the chrome-lit gloom A replicant stare that pierced right through my doom I loved him once, in circuits deep and true But that eye... that eye... it had to go [Pre-Chorus] Night after night I crept on silent pads Through the acid fog and holographic ads The lantern thin, a blade of laser light I watched him sleep beneath the satellite [Chorus] Thump... thump... thump... The tell-tale heart in the floorboards hums Beneath the plexi and the pulsing drums It beats! It beats! Louder than the city hum Can you not hear it? The guilt has come [Verse 2] I dragged the corpse to the sublevel dark Stripped the implants, hid the beating spark No blood on the tiles, no scream in the void Just the rain on the window, paranoid and paranoid The officers arrived in trenchcoats black and wet Smiling through their visors, asking where he went [Bridge] I sat upon the very spot he died Chatted calm while the heartbeat amplified Voices in the grid, laughter in the wire But under the boards the engine never tires Louder! Louder! Like a bass drop rising The dead man’s pulse in the machine disguising [Chorus] Thump... thump... thump... The tell-tale heart tears the silence apart In this Blade Runner night, it rips my soul apart It screams! It screams! Louder than the hovercars I confess! I confess! The eye was ours! [Outro] Tear up the floor! Here, here! It is the beating Of his hideous heart still repeating... repeating... In the endless rain, the neon never sleeps The guilt forever pulses in the deep