IYDKMIGTHTKY (Gimme That)

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"**IYDKMIGTHTKY (Gimme That)**" is a song by Type O Negative, included on their sixth album *Life Is Killing Me*, released in 2003. The acronym in its title stands for "If You Don't Kill Me, I'm Going To Have To Kill You", which is repeated six times in this song. The lyrics describe the actions that occur during drug addiction, and also describes that the user isn't in control of the actions that are executed towards wanting the substance. "Whether it was born or bred (Genetic, environment)" implies that we do not know where substance use disorders come from, either it's passed on from your parents or it forms due to hanging out with the wrong people. "I wouldn't bother to ask it why, simply concentrate on when" is a reference to the book of Exodus in the Bible where it describes when Noah got drunk on wine, but doesn't state why. A non religious meaning to it is that it doesn't matter why someone began to drink or use, because it doesn't matter after you pick up. The "IYDKMIGTHTKY" line is describing how Peter feels like he's either going to kill his addiction (which is separate, but has control over him.. thus the point of the song) or the addiction is going to kill him.

## Lyrics

It's been doing some thinking

And felt fair that she should know

All actions in which partake

Are far beyond its control

Whether it was born or bred

(Genetic, environment)

I wouldn't bother to ask it why

Simply concentrate on when

It lies awake, yes, quite obsessed

Making plans but it won't tell

So longs to hear her final words:

"I brought this on myself"

The theory of futility

Now you'll learn, so be prepared

Enemies are equal to wrath times the speed of fright squared, yeah

If you don't kill me

I'm going to have to kill you... you-who

If you don't kill me

I'm going to have to kill you... you-who

My God helps those who help themselves

Of thus, she shan't be ashamed

Crawl into line and wait your turn

Remember Jesus slaves

Department of Probation:

"Legally it can't be blamed, held therefore unaccountable

since it's clinically insane - what a shame again"

If you don't kill me

I'm going to have to kill you... you-who

If you don't kill me

I'm going to have to kill you... you-who

If you don't kill me... me

I'm going to have to kill you... you

If you don't kill me... me

I'm going to have to kill you... you-who... you live

You must decide

We're out of time

No place to hide

Your choice, not mine!

You must decide

We're out of time

No place to hide

Your choice, not mine!

You must decide

We're out of time

No place to hide

Your choice, not mine!

You must decide

We're out of time

No place to hide

Your choice, not mine!

## Personnel

**Group performers**

* **Peter Steele** – lead vocals, bass, additional guitar, keyboards, flute
* Kenny Hickey – guitar, backing vocals
* 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"