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Diamanda Galas - Litanies of Satan
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Diamanda Galas - My World Is Empty Without You
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Diamanda Galas - 8 Men And 4 Women
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Diamanda Galas - Do You Take This Man?
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Diamanda Galas - Let My People Go
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Diamanda Galas - Artemis
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Diamanda Galas - I Wake Up And See The Face Of The Devil
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Diamanda Galas - Blind Man's Cry
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Diamanda Galas - Deliver Me From Mine Enemies
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Diamanda Galas - Heauton Timoroumenos (self Tormentor)
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Diamanda Galas - Sex Is Violent
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Diamanda Galas - Strange Hours
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Diamanda Galas - Last Night You Came Back
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Diamanda Galas - Les Litanies de Satan
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Diamanda Galas - Let Us Praise the Masters of Slow Death
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Diamanda Galas - Nomen Exterminus
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Diamanda Galas - Orders From The Dead
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Diamanda Galas - Panopticon
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Diamanda Galas - The Dance
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Diamanda Galas - Were You A Witness
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Diamanda Galas - Yes, I Like the T.V.
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Diamanda Galas - Abel Et Cain
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Diamanda Galas - At The Dark End Of The Street
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Diamanda Galas - Autumn Leaves
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Diamanda Galas - Baby's Insane
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Diamanda Galas - Birds Of Death
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Diamanda Galas - Confessional
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Diamanda Galas - Cris D'Aveugle
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Diamanda Galas - Cunt
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Diamanda Galas - Dancing in the dark
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Diamanda Galas - Do I See A light
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Diamanda Galas - Double-Barrel Prayer
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Diamanda Galas - Down So Low
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Diamanda Galas - Epistle To The Transients
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Diamanda Galas - Frenzy
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Diamanda Galas - Gloomy Sunday
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Diamanda Galas - Heaven Have Mercy
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Diamanda Galas - How Shall Our Judgement Be Carried Out Upon The Wicked
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Diamanda Galas - I Put A Spell On You
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Diamanda Galas - I Shall Not Fear
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Diamanda Galas - I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
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Diamanda Galas - Insane Asylum
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Diamanda Galas - Interlude (Time)
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Diamanda Galas - Iron Lady
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Diamanda Galas - Judgement Day
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Diamanda Galas - L'Heautontimioroumenos
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Diamanda Galas - Let's Not Chat About Despair
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Diamanda Galas - Long Black Veil
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Diamanda Galas - Malediction
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Diamanda Galas - O, Death
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Diamanda Galas - Old Dogbone
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Diamanda Galas - Seance
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Diamanda Galas - See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
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Diamanda Galas - Sevda Zinçiri
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Diamanda Galas - Si La Muerte
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Diamanda Galas - Smell
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Diamanda Galas - Solo L'Antichristo
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Diamanda Galas - Spider
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Diamanda Galas - Supplica A Mia Madre
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Diamanda Galas - The Desert
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Diamanda Galas - The Thrill Is Gone
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Diamanda Galas - Todesfugue
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Diamanda Galas - Tony
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Diamanda Galas - Vein
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Diamanda Galas - Were You There When They Crucified My Lord
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Diamanda Galas - What Is My Name
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Diamanda Galas - Why It's The Angel Of Death
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Diamanda Galas - Wild Women With Steaknives
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Diamanda Galas - You Must Be Certain Of The Devil
L'Heautontimioroumenos
Diamanda Galas
Et sans haine, comme un boucher,
Comme Moïse le rocher
Et je ferai de ta paupière,
Pour abreuver mon Saharah
Jaillir les eaux de la souffrance.
Mon désir gonflé d'espérance
Sur tes pleurs salés nagera
Comme un vaisseau qui prend le large,
Et dans mon coeur qu'ils soûleront
Tes chers sanglots retentiront
Comme un tambour qui bat la charge!
Ne suis-je pas un faux accord
Dans la divine symphonie,
Grâce à la vorace Ironie
Qui me secoue et qui me mord
Elle est dans ma voix, la criarde!
C'est tout mon sang ce poison noir!
Je suis le sinistre miroir
Où la mégère se regarde.
Je suis la plaie et le couteau!
Je suis le soufflet et la joue!
Je suis les membres et la roue,
Et la victime et le bourreau!
Je suis de mon coeur le vampire,
- Un de ces grands abandonnés
Au rire éternel condamnés
Et qui ne peuvent plus sourire!
(translation:)
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'
