Type O Negative

World Coming Down - 1999

1. Skip It
2. White Slavery
3. Sinus
4. Everyone I Love Is Dead
5. Who Will Save The Sane?
6. Liver
7. World Coming Down
8. Creep Green Light
9. Everything Dies
10. Lung
11. Pyretta Blaze
12. All Hallows Eve
13. Day Tripper / If I Needed Someone / I Want You (Sheīs So Heavy)



1. Skip It


-no lyrics



2. White Slavery


I make a call
So far to fall
Restless craving
Inundating

The summer snow
but itīs not cold
Once itīs tested
thus infected

Iīve lost myself again
Iīve lost myself again
Itīs a nightmare
But itīs clear
It will end, but when?

The break of day
I rot away
With every breath
I pray for death

Let me say
Pepsi Generation
A few lines
of misinformation
Watch your money
flow away so quick
To kill yourself properly
Coke is it



3. Sinus


-no lyrics



4. Everyone I Love Is Dead


Seems three years
Though maybe four
Someone drops dead
Whom i adore
You love someone
There will be grief
The kiss of death
Lips of a thief

Goddamnit

A dusty stack
of photographs
Of times Iīve cried
But mostly laughed
Commit the past
Into blue flame
Acrid smoke
Cowardly shame

Goddamnit

At times Iīm truly terrified
Cause dope and booze
Donīt help to hide
Theyīre used to mask
A weaklingīs hurt
Itīs just like painting
Over dirt

Everyone I love is dead

Lifeīs a game I cannot win
Both good and bad
Must surely end
The mirrors
Always tell the truth
I love myself
For hating you



5. Who Will Save The Sane?


Periodic tableware
Psychotropic science fare

But who will save the sane?
Some beings
Just canīt change
Now crawl on by
With a fake tear in your eye
And think
Isnīt he strange?

Pseudogasmic chemistry
Necromorphic apathy

But who will save the sane?...

Physical laws unapplied
Hamper my quest
Unsurreal world
Of unfailed HIV tests
Der Ubermensch warning
Of pi (techno junkies)
3.141592653...
Come on boy
Tell me, tell me

Tentative ambulance
Date bound for G Ward
Beartrap psychiatrist bait
Chew my paw off
Unmercilessly we will take you
Away to slumber
But only if you can recite
Avogadroīs number

Now crawl on by
With a fake tear in your eye
And think
Wasnīt he strange?



6. Liver


-no lyrics



7. World Coming Down


She thinks Iīm Iron Man,
That I donīt feel pain
I donīt understand why joy
Must be feigned
Iīm so fortunate yet
Filled with self-hate
That the mirror shows
Me an ingrate

I could easily start
Pointing fingers
Since the blame is mine,
It always lingers
That the truth it lies in
My reflection
Though this canīt go on,
Thereīs no question

Yeah I know that my
World is coming down
Yeah I know Iīm the one
Who brought it down
Bring it on down

How quickly pass the days,
Long is the night
Lying in bed awake,
Bathed in starlight
Better to live as
King of beasts
Than as a lamb
Scared and weak

I will deny my role
As a human
Holding myself hostage
With no demands
Itīs better to burn
Quickly and bright
Than slowly and dull
Without a fight



8. Creep Green Light


This Halloween
So unlike any other
Her final words
Donīt be afraid
Of the green light

On muddy ground
Iīm lying drunk on her grave
Where I must wait
Until she wakes
The soil splits, Greenwoodīs
Ground will quake beneath me
And so shall take
Into the earth
To the green light

The autumn air
Thickly fills my lungs
So sweetly
Reminds me of
Her smoky breath
With wine and this
Bouquet of maple
And oak leaves
In death or life
Weīll always be

I find myself drawn to her
Shadow domain

This moonlit night
Late Octoberīs swirling
Fog-gloom
And as promised
My love did rise
From the green light



9. Everything Dies


Well I loved my aunt
But she died
And my uncle Lou,
Then he died
Iīm searching for
Something which canīt
Be found, but Iīm hoping
I still dream of dad
Though he died

Everything dies

My maīs so sick,
She might die
Though my girlīs quite fit,
she will die
Still looking for someone
Who was around
Barely coping
Now I hate myself
Wish Iīd die

No, why? Oh God I miss you
No, why? Oh God I miss you
I really miss you



10. Lung


-no lyrics



11. Pyretta Blaze


eautiful yet dangerous
Thermogenic, luminous
Like a moth drawn to a flame
Iīm the same
All cremated equally

As a spark still I knew
Iīll be lured, be consumed
She a pyre incarnate
Incinerate
An inferno
Turned to flesh

You are the first
Will be my last
Will be my final words
(said she)
Pyretta Blaze

Say the words
I long to hear
Pinch, bite, kiss, suck, lick
And sear
In a pyromantic way,
Iīm her slave
Living for her to ignite



12. All Hallows Eve


Fall fires burn īneath
Black twisted boughs
Sacrifice to above
Smoke swirling quickly
Towards misting clouds
Offering of this blood
Into the flames
And without shame
Pumpkins grin
In their despair
On All Hallows Eve

Cruel be the wind
As it quells my words
I shout out to the rain
Incantations I so hoped
Youīve heard
That you live again
From deep Earth
Brings forth rebirth
Witness but I shant believe
From below a chilling glow
On All Hallows Eve

Be spiderwebbed
And glazed in frost
She wears death beautifully
More stunning now
Than in her life
On a bed of Autumn leaves
Into her eyes
And quite surprised
I whispered
Donīt you leave
Sing macabre songs
And weīll dance ītil dawn
On All Hallows Eve

Saint Lucifer hear me
Praying to thee
On this eve of all saints
High be the price
But then nothing is free
My soul Iīll gladly trade

Cold is the night
In so many ways
Luna round, full and bright
Deep be the mud
On the fresh dug graves
On yours I recite
An ancient spell
I know so well
Success is guaranteed
Iīll bring you back
From where youīve gone
On All Hallows Eve



13. Day Tripper / If I Needed Someone / I Want You (Sheīs So Heavy)


-Beatles Medley-


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