"Ah! Why do you suffer the blessing that's there / to give a poor lover such sad torments here?"

"I can scarcely move / or draw my breath" * Klaus Nomi: The Cold Song (a.k.a. What Power Art Thou, Who from Below... from the opera King Arthur, composed by Henry Purcell, libretto by John Dryden, first performed in 1691, TCS recorded by Nomi in 1981), clip from Klassik rocknacht, Dec 1982 in Munich