I Wake Up and I See the Face of The Devil - Diamanda Galas

I wake up and see the face of the Devil

and I ask Him

What time is it?

How do you feel today?

What time is it?

How do you feel today?

Well, I think I’m feeling better

What time is it?

What TIME IS IT?

How do you feel today?

Well, I think I’m feeling better

Do you?

Yes, I think I’m feeling better;

you know I was just thinking if I could just get out of here some time and do something, you know and stop looking at the TV and just doanything at all

I would be so happy… just give myself something to do, you know I…

Do you?

What time is it?

Better better better better

WHAT TIME IS IT?

How much time do you want?

I want?

I want?

Why you… I want..

How much time do you want?

Well, I was just thinking tnat perhaps I could have just…

Do you?

Better?

Better?

Better?

Better?

How much time do I want?

I want… I want… How much time do I have.

Why you… why you.

I want.

I want…

no one knows… where I’m going.

You know we’ve been talking about you downstairs and

we think perhaps you are not being realistic-that perhaps

you are being unrealistic… it seems that you are not-

we think that you have not faced up to what is going on…

Better?

Are you sure, perhaps, you know,

you’ve gone insane…

Better?

Black!

…

White lights…

Black!

Black!

Black!

White lights

Better

sister, if I could do it all over again,

I would, but you know there’s something

unnatural about this thing…

there’s something unnatural about this thing…

keep it in your memory…

people forget… about…

Hi, how are you?

Hi, how are you?

I’m fine

I’m fine

Hi, how are you?

How are you?

I’m fine

I’m just fine,

How are you, anyway?

and how are YOU

and how are YOU

any how are YOU

I’M JUST FINE,

MISS THING

I JUST FEEL LIKE SINGING THE BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC

HOW ARE YOU, ANYWAY?

GET OUT OF HERE

GET OUT OF HERE

GET OUT

GET OUT

GET OUT

please don’t go please don’t go please don’t go You are the love of my life

I have never loved anyone like this before

and I never will again

don’t go…

I’m sorry, miss

you can’t come in now

he has developed shingles

and you could contract it and it might be meningitis and

not be able to have children…

Children children children …

Am I having children?

When my baby is dying

When my baby is dying

THIS IS MY BLOOD

THIS IS MY BLOOD

THIS IS MY BLOOD

WHITE LIGHTS…

BLACK …

I dreamed I stuck a gun to my head and I dreamed

I was lying in a pool of blood

and they looked down at me and said,

«It's over now…

it’s over now…

Now, at least, he is in peace

FREE …

turn the fuckin' light off!

I dreamed I was lying in the green grass

and the wind was blowing softly

and blue was everywhere

and I saw heads popping out through the grass

and it seemed as if they knew me…

«Hi Dimitri, Hi Dimitri, Hi Dimitri.

Hi Dimitri»

«Heaven… Heaven…

BLACK …

Heaven… I see Heaven…