Who Will Save the Sane?

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"**Who Will Save the Sane?**" is a song by Type O Negative, included on their fifth album *World Coming Down*, released in 1999. This song has science talk for the psychiatric treatment on Steele. One line of lyrics displays pi to nine decimal places—3.141592653. The song features low-toned keyboard that is reminiscent of The Beatles.

## Lyrics

Periodic tableware

Psychotropic science fair

But who will save the sane?

Some beings just can't change

Now crawl on by

A fake tear in your eye

And think isn't he strange

Pseudogasmic chemistry

Necromorphic apathy

But who will save the sane?

Some beings just can't change

Now crawl on by

A fake tear in your eye

And think isn't he strange

Physical laws unapplied Hamper my quest

Unsurreal world of unfailed HIV tests

Der ubermensch warning of pi techno junkies - 3.141592653

Come on boy

Tell me

Tell me

Tentative ambulance date bound for G Ward

Bear trap psychiatrist bait chew my paw off

Unmercilessly we will take you away to slumber

But only if you can recite Avogadro's number

Come on boy

Tell me

Tell me

But who will save the sane?

Some beings just can't change

Now crawl on by

A fake tear in your eye

And think isn't he strange

Now crawl on by

A fake tear in your eye

And think wasn't he strange

## Personnel

**Group performers**

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

**Enginucers**

* **Peter Steele** – writing, preprogramming, production
* Mike Marciano – engineering, mixing
* Josh Silver – samples, 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"