September Sun

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"**September Sun**" is a song by Type O Negative, included on their seventh and final album *Dead Again*, released in 2007. This song lasts just shy of ten minutes and is split into three cantos. The first canto, titled "September Sun", features a piano ballad; the composition in the second canto, titled "Leave Her Alone", resembles The Smashing Pumpkins; then during the last canto of this track, titled "Relief from Grief", it plays a military-like symphonic tune that gives them emotional feeling to some listeners before it ends with a recorded message by Steele from his friend's answering machine in 1998. A laugh can be heard right when Canto III begins that started right before Canto II ends. Canto I talks about that Pete's wife turned into stone after ignoring the warning from God that if you look back, she'll turn into stone; canto II talks about defending his former girlfriend Elizabeth from abuse; canto III is about revealing that he knows why he did it to her.

The song almost didn't make the album as Peter Steele didn't really want it, but drummer Johnny Kelly talked their way to keeping this. Then ten months after the album's release on March 13, 2007, the single for this song was released on January 14, 2008. The single lasts just over four and a half minutes, less than half the duration of the album track. "September Sun" was the final single released by Type O Negative before Peter Steele died two years and three months after the release.

There is an official music video for this song.

## Lyrics

**[Canto I. "September Sun"]**

September sun glowing golden hair

Now keep in mind son she was never there

October's rust bisecting black storm clouds

Only the deaf hear my silent shouts

Yet in the dark still he screams your name

Nights living death with witch rhymes insane

Ten years amassed para toda vida?

Lost man in time was his name Peter?

September sun rotted Flatbush porch

I would have run then had I known the cost

Autumnal rays turned your eyes to stone

Did it give you pleasure to steal my soul?

Yet in the dark still he screams your name

Nights living death with witch rhymes insane

Ten years amassed para toda vida?

Lost man in time was his name Peter?

**[Canto II. "Leave Her Alone"]**

Leave, leave her alone

I said leave her alone

Leave, leave her alone

I said leave her alone, alone

Leave, leave her alone

I said leave her alone

Leave, leave her alone

I said leave her alone, alone, alone

[Foreign content]

[Foreign content]

**[Canto III. "Relief from Grief"]**

Me, me, me, me, me, I know why

Me, me, me, me, me, I know why

Me, me, me, me, me, I know why

Me, me, me, me, me, I know, I know, I know why

Me, me, me, me, me, I know why

Me, me, me, me, me, I know why

Me, me, me, me, me, I know why

Me, me, me, me, me, I know, I know, I know why

## Personnel

**Group performers**

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

**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"