World Coming Down (song)

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"**World Coming Down**" is a song by Type O Negative, included on their fifth album *World Coming Down*, released in 1999. This one sounds like The Beatles "Dear Prudence", however, it is much slower and in a different key (C#). It features a sitar and tambura, unusual for Type O Negative song.

## Lyrics

She thinks I'm iron man that I don't feel pain

I don't understand why joy must be feigned

I'm 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 can't go on there's no question

Yeah I know

That my world is coming down

Yeah I know, I know

I'm the one who brought it down

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

It's better to burn (to burn) quickly and bright

Than slowly and dull (and dull) without a fight

Well I know, hmmmm

That my world is coming down, hmmmm, hmmmm

Now I know, I know

I'm the one that brought it down

Brought it down

Yeah, Bring it on down

Well I know

That my world is coming down

Yeah I know, I know

I'm the one who brought it down

Brought it down

Well I know

That my world is coming down

Yeah I know, I know

I'm the one who brought it down

Brought it down

Bring it on down

[Incomprehensible]

Well I know

That my world is coming down

Yeah I know, I know

I'm the one who brought it down

Brought it down

Bring it on down

[Incomprehensible]

## Personnel

**Group performers**

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

**Session performer**

* Paul Bento – sitar and tambura

**Enginucers**

* **Peter Steele** – writing, preprogramming, production
* Mike Marciano – engineering, mixing
* Josh Silver – effects, deprogramming, production
* Johnny Kelly – drum programming
* Kenny Hickey – deprogramming
* 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"

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"