Der Untermensch

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"**Der Untermensch**" is a song by Type O Negative, included on their first album *Slow, Deep and Hard*, released in 1991. This song, whose title is German for "The Subhuman", has self-explanatory lyrics. The lyrical nature of this song led Germany to ban playing Type O Negative in concerts.

"Der Untermensch", the previous track "Unsuccessfully Coping with the Natural Beauty of Infidelity", and "Some Stupid Tomorrow" of the later album *Dead Again* are the only songs in the Type O Negative catalog that comprise five cantos, but in this song it only uses two names as the one plays on three occasions and the other two occasions—they are "Waste of Life" and "Socioparasite", respectively. "Waste of Life" each begins with factory rod striking sound and are doomy, while "Socioparasite" are thrashy.

## Lyrics

**[Canto I. "Waste of Life"]**

[Instrumental]

**[Canto II. "Socioparasite"]**

Hey, you on public assistance

Why don't you get a job?

Sell some dope and buy some pride

The only thing you couldn't rob

Socioparasite!

Socioparasite!

How does it feel to live for free?

Get off society's back

Skells like you allowed to live

You wonder why we're attacked?

Socioparasite!

Socioparasite!

**[Canto III. "Waste of Life" (reprise)]**

Waste of life!

You're a waste of life!

**[Canto IV. "Socioparasite" (reprise)]**

Getting fucked up on Classon Avenue

Smoking crack and drinking booze

Spike in your arm, no money for food

But there's plenty of gas in your BMW

There's a dopewhore waiting at home

Dealing your shit on the telephone

Poor Tawana's got a birth defect

But it only increases your welfare check

Been doing some thinking, I have an answer

To arrest the spreading cancer

Send you back to where you're from

Get the fuck rid of you subhuman scum

If you don't pay taxes, you shouldn't vote

So get in line and get on the boat

I'd love to tear down all the projects

Kiss my ass, Home Relief reject

**[Canto V. "Waste of Life" (second reprise)]**

Waste of life!

You're a waste of life!

You're a waste of life!

Waste of life

You're a waste of life

Waste of life

You're a waste of life

## Personnel

**Group performers**

* **Peter Steele** – vocals, bass
* Kenny Hickey – guitar
* Josh Silver – keyboards, organ
* Sal Abruscato – drums, percussion

**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"