Life Is Killing Me (song)

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"**Life Is Killing Me**" is a song by Type O Negative, included on their sixth album *Life Is Killing Me*, released in 2003. It begins with the sound of emergency room and ambulance siren before getting into keyboard-laden riff, then a gentle womanly choir followed by thunderous chorus. The song talks about Pete's criticism of medical profession and about wanting to die rather than being treated.

## Lyrics

Like a Jew in ancient Spain

And for Christ's name did pay with pain

Modern day inquisition

What is the link between these crafts?

Doctors and thieves, they both wear masks

Overpaid meat magicians

Life is killing me

Life is killing me

Life is killing me

Life is killing me

Your doctorate and Ph.D.

Would wipe my ass etched in feces

Will not cure your affliction

Doctors Jeckyll or Mengele

And your face too, they're just a blur

Can't improve my condition

Life is killing me

Life is killing me

Life is killing me

Life is killing me

Appointment made, waited three hours

Did not realize you had such power

I'd rather see a mortician

Your parents saved or had the bucks

Your education stems from luck

Future corpse: death by physician

I have no choice: devoid of rights

So pull the plug, it's my damned life

Keep me alive to increase your bill

A Red Cross hell? - the hospital!

Just let me die with dignity

It's not suicide, simply mercy

Just who do you think you are?

Medical school don't make you God

Now I don't care what you've been taught

Just get me off this life support

Just let me die, with dignity

It's not suicide, simply mercy

Life is killing me

Life is killing me

Life is killing me

Life is killing me

I said life is killing me

Life is killing me

I said life is killing me

Life is killing me

Life is killing me

## Personnel

**Group performers**

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

**Session performer**

* The Bensonhoist Lesbian Choir – choirs

**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"