Todd's Ship Gods (Above All Things)

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"**Todd's Ship Gods (Above All Things)**" is a song by Type O Negative, included on their sixth album *Life Is Killing Me*, released in 2003. The song contains melodic, upbeat elements reminiscent of Rush. It is about Steele's father and the title is named after the shipyard he worked in (Todd Shipyard, Brooklyn NY). The first 24 seconds of this track has sounds of eagles and a ship horn recorded from the aforementioned shipyard in Brooklyn not far from the studio where this song and the album were recorded. The most repeated phrase in the lyrics is "I won't cry - Above all things boy, be a man", which is sung nine times, including the last seven lines right before the song ends.

There is a fan-made music video for this song.

## Lyrics

Grease, sweat, coffee, faded shipyard pictures

Giant living there I used to know

Author of the testosterone scriptures

Where did you go?

Now I remember what he told me that time

Falling from my bike, scraping my knee:

"If you're gonna weep, keep it from sunshine, so no one sees"

[Choir]

I won't cry - "Above all things boy, be a man"

I won't cry - "Above all things boy, be a man"

See little boy hiding amongst shadows

Ashamed of tears exposing ancient pain

From the storms predicted by the Tarot: Pray for the rain

[Choir]

I won't cry - "Above all things boy, be a man"

I won't cry - "Above all things boy, be a man"

I won't cry - "Above all things boy, be a man"

I won't cry - "Above all things boy, be a man"

[Choir]

I won't cry - "Above all things boy, be a man"

I won't cry - "Above all things boy, be a man"

I won't cry - "Above all things boy, be a man"

## Personnel

**Group performers**

* **Peter Steele** – lead vocals, bass
* Kenny Hickey – guitar, backing vocals, choirs
* Josh Silver – keyboards, backing vocals
* Johnny Kelly – live drums

**Enginucers**

* **Peter Steele** – writing, mixing, production
* Josh Silver – engineering, effects, drum programming, mixing, production
* Mike Marciano – engineering, mixing
* George Marino – mastering

## 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"

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"
 ***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"