Torture Is the Rash of the Disease

Music: Pieces en Concert -- Prelude, La Tromba, Air de Diable.
By Francois Couperin.
Performed by The Advent Chamber Orchestra at the Free Music Archive
under a Creative Commons Attribution/ShareAlike license.

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Torture is the rash of the disease,
On which a diagnosis can be based.
Regarding information one might gain:
The free press must inflict the healing pain,
Uncovering the mange beneath the sleaze.
Restoring health requires each chain be traced
Even to the hearts such horrors graced.

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