The arms that you cut off that Sunday night
of the youngman who ran screaming through the street
streaming blood in trails of terror
are the arms that point me to my door
which forsaken by the blood of Jesus
invites the Devil, who now waits for me outside
The arms that you cut off that Sunday night
are the arms that point me to the red eyes
of the pentecostal killers and the black eyes
of the roman catholic killers and the blue eyes
of the pinhead skinhead killers
and the dirty angel does his target practice night and day
making ready now to steal my soul away
The arms that you cut off that Sunday night
are the arms that wait between my T.V. and my gun

while the winks and smiles of singing debutantes and eunuchs whisper
"We don't want you, Unclean, lying there in vomit, filth and perspiration,
coming back with Jesus or with Elvis from the dead"
The arms that you cut off 
the body of the screaming youngman
dance before my eyes the endless murder of my soul
wich, taunted every hour by open windows,
has kept itself alive with prayer,
but not for miracles and not for heaven

just for silence
and for mercy
until the end
words by Diamanda Galas
©multimedia 1998
you've been on this road before
you can read the signs
you can feel your way
you can do this
in your sleep