Unsuccessfully Coping with the Natural Beauty of Infidelity

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"**Unsuccessfully Coping with the Natural Beauty of Infidelity**" is a song by Type O Negative, included on their first album *Slow, Deep and Hard*, released in 1991. This lead track is divided into five cantos, tied with the next track "Der Untermensch" and "Some Stupid Tomorrow" of *Dead Again* for second most of any song in the Type O Negative catalog, and one less than "I Know You're Fucking Someone Else", which is altered version of this song featured on the next album. It begins with a sharp hiss and then riffing begins. The first canto of this song, titled "Anorganic Transmutogenesis (Synthetic Division)" is thrashy, then goes to doom metal section then back to thrash. The second canto, "Coitus Interruptus", is an acoustic instrumental overlaid with the sound of female moaning while having sex. "I Know You're Fucking Someone Else" (which is same title as the aforementioned altered version of this song on *The Origin of the Feces*) is the third and fifth cantos lasting for the grand total of four minutes and eighteen seconds (2:04 and 2:14, respectively), which is one-third the duration of this whole song. Embedded between the two same-titled cantos is the pipe organ solo titled "Whore" before it goes back to the pop metal part of the prior canto. The last three cantos are about feeling depressed and agony from a cheating girlfriend while being drunk and features NYHC chants of 'Slut! Whore! Cunt!' Right after the song ends, handclaps are played for the last 14 seconds of the track.

This is the only single released from Type O's first album and the song included on both of their greatest hits albums—*The Least Worst Of* and *The Best of Type O Negative*.

## Lyrics

**[Canto I. "Anorganic Transmutogenesis (Synthetic Division)"]**

Trust and you'll be trusted

Says the liar to the fool

Lust and so what if you're busted?

In love and war there ain't no rules

Do you believe in forever?

I don't even believe in tomorrow

The only things that last forever

Are memories and sorrow

Out of sight out of mind

The motto of betrayal

The prophets preach to forgive and forget

I'm sorry, but I am unable

**[Canto II. "Coitus Interruptus"]**

[Instrumental with moans]

**[Canto III. "I Know You're Fucking Someone Else"]**

You went to L'amour Saturday night

Red nails and lipstick dressed two sizes too tight

His tongue down your throat

His hand up your skirt

Yeah I'm a man

But it still hurts

Slut

Whore

Cunt

I know you're fucking someone else

(He knows you're fucking someone else)

I know you're fucking someone else

(He knows you're fucking someone else)

You had cock on your mind

And cum on your breath

Inserted that diaphragm before you left

Practicing freelance gynecology

Where there's a womb there's a way

With you it's for free

Slut

Whore

Cunt

I know you're fucking someone else

(He knows you're fucking someone else)

I know you're fucking someone else

(He knows you're fucking someone else)

**[Canto IV. "Whore"]**

Done it before

Time after time

Refused to learn your lesson

Gave 'til it hurt

Thought it was right

Only fools make mistakes twice

Whore

Whore

So you sit home

Drinking alone

Empty bottle in your hand

Don't even try

To sort out the lies

It's worse to try to understand

Whore

Whore

**[Canto V. "I Know You're Fucking Someone Else" (reprise)]**

You

You make me hate myself

I know you're fucking someone else

(He knows you're fucking someone else)

I know you're fucking someone else

(He knows you're fucking someone else)

I know you're fucking someone else

(He knows you're fucking someone else)

I know you're fucking someone else

(He knows you're fucking someone else)

I know

(He knows)

I said I know

(He said he knows)

I know

(He knows)

## Personnel

**Group performers**

* **Peter Steele** – lead vocals, bass
* Kenny Hickey – guitar, acoustic guitar, additional vocals
* Josh Silver – keyboards, pipe organ, backing vocals
* Sal Abruscato – drums

**Enginucers**

* **Peter Steele** – writing
* Mike Marciano – engineering, mixing
* Josh Silver – samples, effects
* Michael Sarsfield – mastering
* Type O Negative – production

## Links to other songs

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"