Heauton Timoroumenos (self Tormentor) letra

No rage, no rancor: I shall beat you
as butchers fell an ox,
as Moses smote the rock in Horeb-
I shall make you weep,
and by the waters of affliction
my desert will be slaked.
My desire, that hope has made monstrous,
will frolic in your tears
as a ship tosses on the ocean-
in my besotted heart
your adorable sobs will echo
like an ecstatic drum.
For I - am I not a dissonance
in the divine accord,
because of the greedy Irony
which infiltrates my soul?
I hear it in my voice - that shrillness,
that poison in my blood!
I am the sinister glass in which
the Fury sees herself!
I am the knife and the wound it deals,
I am the slap and the cheek,
I am the wheel and the broken limbs,
hangman and victim both!
I am the vampire at my own veins,
one of the great lost horde
doomed for the rest of my time, and beyond,
'to laugh - and smile no more'

Diamanda Galas - Letras

• 8 Men And 4 Women
• Abel Et Cain
• Artemis
• At The Dark End Of The Street
• Autumn Leaves
• Baby's Insane
• Birds Of Death
• Blind Man's Cry
• Confessional
• Cris D'Aveugle
• Cunt
• Dancing in the dark
• Deliver Me From Mine Enemies
• Do I See A light
• Do You Take This Man?
• Double-Barrel Prayer
• Down So Low
• Epistle To The Transients
• Frenzy
• Gloomy Sunday
• Heauton Timoroumenos (self Tormentor)
• Heaven Have Mercy
• How Shall Our Judgement Be Carried Out Upon The Wicked
• I Put A Spell On You
• I Shall Not Fear
• I Wake Up And See The Face Of The Devil
• I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
• Insane Asylum
• Interlude (Time)
• Iron Lady
• Judgement Day
• L'Heautontimioroumenos
• Last Night You Came Back
• Les Litanies de Satan
• Let My People Go
• Let Us Praise the Masters of Slow Death
• Let's Not Chat About Despair
• Litanies of Satan
• Long Black Veil
• Malediction
• My World Is Empty Without You
• Nomen Exterminus
• O, Death
• Old Dogbone
• Orders From The Dead
• Panopticon
• Seance
• See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
• Sevda Zinçiri
• Sex Is Violent
• Si La Muerte
• Smell
• Solo L'Antichristo
• Spider
• Strange Hours
• Supplica A Mia Madre
• The Dance
• The Desert
• The Thrill Is Gone
• Todesfugue
• Tony
• Vein
• Were You A Witness
• Were You There When They Crucified My Lord
• What Is My Name
• Why It's The Angel Of Death
• Wild Women With Steaknives
• Yes, I Like the T.V.
• You Must Be Certain Of The Devil