Deliver Me From Mine Enemies pt1 - Diamanda Galás

Deliver Me From Mine Enemies, First track from the album The Divine punishment & saint of the pit, by Greek-American avant-garde composer, vocalist, pianist, performance artist Diamanda Galás. Known for her expert piano as well as her distinctive, operatic voice, which has a three and a half octave range, Galás has been described as “capable of the most unnerving vocal terror“. Galás often shrieks, howls, and seems to imitate glossolalia in her performances. Her works largely concentrate on the topics of suffering, despair, condemnation, injustice and loss of dignity. Lyrics: When any man hath an issue out of his flesh, Because of that issue he is unclean. Every bed whereon he lieth is unclean and everything whereon he sitteth, unclean. and he that toucheth the flesh of the unclean Becomes unclean. And whosoever toucheth anything under him shall be unclean. And he that beareth any of those things shall be unclean. And what saddle soever he rideth upon is unclean And the vessel of earth that he touches, unclean. And if any man’s seed of copulation go out from him, he is unclean. Every garment, every skin whereon is seed, unclean. And the woman with whom this man shall lie will be unclean. And whosoever toucheth her will be unclean. This is the law of the plague: To teach when it is clean And when it is unclean. And the priest shall look upon the plague for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot. And the priest shall shut up he that hath the plague. He shall carry them forth to a plague unclean. He shall separate them un their uncleanness. This is the law of the plague: To teach when it is clean And when it is unclean.
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