Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song L'Heautontimoroumenos (1857) (Self-Tormentor) , by - Diamanda Galas. Song from the album Saint of The Pit, in the genre АльтернативаL'Heautontimoroumenos (1857) (Self-Tormentor) |
| 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» |
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