Green Man

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"**Green Man**" is a song by Type O Negative, included on their fourth album *October Rust*, released in 1996. The intro part of the track has recorded sounds of a garbage man dumping out garbage into the garbage truck once driven by Peter Steele, then drives away. The title of this song, "Green Man", was inspired when children called Steele Green Man when he was wearing green jumpsuit when he worked as a park maintenance. The song is about Pete's love of nature having four seasons, as well as rebirth, renaissance and spirits of the forest. It also contains lyrics about the sculpture of the same name as shown on the cover art. The slowness and nature of this song may make some listeners feel natural, warm and inviting, per the review on *Simple Anime*.

There is a fan-made music video for this song. The video shows the band members performing in all four seasons as well as background scenes and animations of each of those seasons such as flowers blooming in spring.

## Lyrics

Spring won't come, the need of strife

To struggle to be freed from hard ground

The evening mists that creep and crawl

Will drench in the dew and so drown

I'm the green man

The green man

Sol in prime sweet summertime

Cast shadows of doubt on my face

A midday sun, it's caustic hues

Refracting within the still lake

I'm the green man

The green man

Autumn in her flaming dress

Of orange, brown, gold fallen leaves

My mistress of the frigid night

I worship pray to on my knees

Winter's breath of filthy snow

Befrosted paths to the unknown

Have my lips turned true purple

Life is coming to an end

So says me, me wiccan friend

Nature coming full circle

[Incomprehensible]

Winter's breath of filthy snow

Befrosted paths to the unknown

Have my lips turned true purple

Life is coming to an end

So says me, me wiccan friend

Nature coming full circle

I'm the green man

The green man

I'm the green man

The green man

[Incomprehensible]

## Personnel

**Group performers**

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

**Enginucers**

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