Letra de Flagellation

Pleasure in painDesire of mortificationTo achieve the extremeTo know the ultimateTo be a slave for a momentThe body offered up to crueltyTo the lash which whips on the skinWhich slashes the flesh, lacerates the backTo feel the blood, thick and warmFlow over my woundsFlagellation . . .To thrust aside the limitsTo say ’yes’ to deathWithout fear, without remorseTo give up oneself to torturePunishment and rewardThe whip is ambiguousIt distills viceIn a perverse refinementTo be a slave for a momentThe body offered up to crueltyTo the lash which whips on the skinWhich slashes the flesh, lacerates the back