Torture Is the Rash of the Disease

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Cantigas de Santa Maria. Sequenced by Curtis Clark at The Internet Renaissance Band
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Torture is the rash of the disease,
On which a diagnosis can be based.
Regarding information one might gain:
Truth comes only through extended pain,
Uncovering the mange beneath the sleaze.
Restoring health requires each chain be traced
Even to the heart such horrors graced.

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