These Three Things

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"**These Three Things**" is a song by Type O Negative, included on their seventh and final album *Dead Again*, released in 2007. It is the band's second longest song and the longest that is not an altered version of one another, lasting fourteen and a third minutes. Given this really long track, it is not surprising that it is split into four parts, called cantos. It begins with the doomy instrumental canto titled "Perdition" before switching over to The Beatles-like music mixed with metal for "Canto II: Infanticide", which is about the abortion of his unborn child without being baptized which he unquestionably considers it a murder, condemning her and threatening to send her to Hell. Then it switches back to the same instrumental piece as the first canto, followed by the last and the band's longest canto, titled "Salvation", which is about seeking salvation through the deserts until it is found with lyrics based from the texts taken from the Book of Solomon.

## Lyrics

**[Canto I. "Perdition"]**

[Instrumental]

**[Canto II. "Infanticide"]**

The child is torn from the womb unbaptised

There's no question it's infanticide

I'm guilty so therefore condemned

Destroying angels must come to an end

Now in Limbo deprived of paradise not so nice

At the end I'll escort you to hell

The dark one's forces lock your flaming cell

To murder the one's unborn

The worst sin you've ever performed

There are two other things I must tell know them well

With due respect hear these words of caution

If considering and abortion

If you did boiling sulphur

To which I will not concur

Leading to a path of misfortune no one won

**[Canto III. "Perdition" (reprise)]**

[Instrumental]

**[Canto IV. "Salvation"]**

On of a land, land that shuns the son

So alien call it area 5-1

Should there be failure to convert Zion?

What came as a lamb returning as a lion

Not a nation but a self proclaimed state

Since the year of our Lord 1-9-4-8

The road to redemption leads to through deserts

Rocky though the trip through is well worth it

I am the dual of the fisherman Simon

He brought alpha, omega, yes I'm the one

The twins fell beginning Armageddon

So the whore too who dwelleth in Babylon, Babylon

All his people gathered 'round

Through forgiveness

Salvation found, found, found, found, found

I'm a Christian

All his people gathered 'round

Through forgiveness

Salvation found, found, found, found, found

All his people gathered 'round

Through forgiveness

Salvation found me

Emworst [repeatedly]

## Personnel

**Group performers**

* **Peter Steele** – lead vocals, bass
* Kenny Hickey – guitar, backing vocals, co-lead vocals
* Josh Silver – keyboards, synth, backing vocals
* Johnny Kelly – drums

**Session performers**

* The Bensonhoist Lesbian Choir – backing vocals

**Enginucers**

* **Peter Steele** – writing, production
* Josh Silver – engineering, recording, effects, mixing, mastering, production
* Mike Marciano – engineering, recording, mixing, mastering
* Paul Bento – additional recording engineering
* Type O Negative – arrangement

## Links to other songs

1. "Unsuccessfully Coping with the Natural Beauty of Infidelity"
2. "Der Untermensch"
3. "Xero Tolerance"
4. "Prelude to Agony"
5. "Glass Walls of Limbo"
6. "The Misinterpretation of Silence and its Disastrous Consequences"
7. "Gravitational Constant: G = 6.67 × 10−8 cm−3 gm−1 sec−2"

1. "I Know You're Fucking Someone Else"
2. "Are You Afraid"
3. "Gravity"
4. "Pain"
5. "Kill You Tonight"
6. "Hey Pete"
7. "Kill You Tonight (reprise)"
8. "Paranoid" (bonus track)
 ***Bloody Kisses***

1. "Machine Screw"
2. "Christian Woman"
3. "Black No. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All)"
4. "Fay Wray Come Out and Play"
5. "Kill All the White People"
6. "Summer Breeze"
7. "Set Me on Fire"
8. "Dark Side of the Womb"
9. "We Hate Everyone"
10. "Bloody Kisses (A Death in the Family)"
11. "3.0.I.F."
12. "Too Late: Frozen"
13. "Blood & Fire"
14. "Can't Lose You"
15. "Suspended in Dusk" (on special editions only)
16. "Black Sabbath (From the Satanic Perspective)" (on special editions only)
17. "Summer Girl" (unreleased)

1. "Bad Ground"
2. "Intro"
3. "Love You to Death"
4. "Be My Druidess"
5. "Green Man"
6. "Red Water (Christmas Mourning)"
7. "My Girlfriend's Girlfriend"
8. "Die with Me"
9. "Burnt Flowers Fallen"
10. "In Praise of Bacchus"
11. "Cinnamon Girl"
12. "The Glorious Liberation of the People's Technocratic Republic of Vinnland by the Combined Forces of the United Territories of Europa"
13. "Wolf Moon"
14. "Haunted"
15. "Outro"
 ***World Coming Down***

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. "Creepy Green Light"
9. "Everything Dies"
10. "Lung"
11. "Pyretta Blaze"
12. "All Hallows Eve"
13. "Day Tripper"

1. "Thir13teen"
2. "I Don't Wanna Be Me"
3. "Less than Zero (<0)"
4. "Todd's Ship Gods (Above All Things)"
5. "I Like Goils"
6. "...A Dish Best Served Coldly"
7. "How Could She?"
8. "Life Is Killing Me"
9. "Nettie"
10. "(We Were) Electrocute"
11. "IYDKMIGTHTKY (Gimme That)"
12. "Angry Inch"
13. "Anesthesia"
14. "Drunk in Paris"
15. "The Dream Is Dead"
16. "Out of the Fire" (bonus track)
 ***Dead Again***1. "Dead Again"
2. "Tripping a Blind Man"
3. "The Profit of Doom"
4. "September Sun"
5. "Halloween in Heaven"
6. "**These Three Things**"
7. "She Burned Me Down"
8. "Some Stupid Tomorrow"
9. "An Ode to Locksmiths"
10. "Hail and Farewell to Britain"

* "Pictures of Matchstick Men"
* "On with the Show"
* "In the Flesh"
* "Back in the U.S.S.R."
* "It's Never Enough"
* "12 Black Rainbows"
* "Stay Out of My Dreams"
* "Highway Star"
* "Santana Medley"
* "If She Loved Me"
 **StereoType O Negative songs**

* "In the Name of Love (Pride)"
* "Dolce Vita"
* "Last Christmas"
* "Wicked Game"