How Could She?

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"**How Could She?**" is a song by Type O Negative, included on their sixth album *Life Is Killing Me*, released in 2003. It contains Zeppelin-like funk grooves and Motorhead-esque thrash part, as well as bluesy solo and psychedelic singing. The recorded laughs are heard in the studio, including a woman laughing, during the first sixteen seconds of the track before the song actually begins. This song is about finding a reason why a female partner doesn't love them anymore and the lyrics list all the female television characters that Pete says they're pretty, such as Wilma Flintstone, Catwoman, Wonder Woman, and Vanna White.

## Lyrics

**[Canto I. "How Could She?"]**

Wilma Flintstone, Marcia Brady,

Alice Kramden, Gladys Kravitz,

Laverne and Shirley, Jeannie

Morticia Adams, Aunt Esther,

Sweet Polly Purebread, Natasha,

Mrs. MacGillicuddy

How could she?

Ginger, Mary Anne, Mrs. Howell,

Samantha Stevens, Lieutenant Uhura,

Judy Jetson

Olive Oyl, Ethel Mertz,

Edith Bunker, Marilyn Munster,

Rhoda, Penny Robinson

How could she?

Why?

Why don't you love me anymore?

I said why?

Why don't you love me anymore?

**[Canto II. "You're Not Real"]**

Quite upset, angry, just plain annoyed

No recourse except for celluloid

In my heart, I know you are not real

Though in mind, suspect you still can feel

Walt Disney or Hanna-Barbera

Black or white, stunning Technicolor

Warner Brothers and the A.A.P.

I've become addicted to TV

**[Canto III. "How Could She?" (reprise)]**

Crissy Snow, Catwoman,

Creepela, Weezie Jefferson,

Betty Rubble, Little Cindy Who

Penelope Pitstop, Lois Lane,

Vanna White, Wonder Woman,

Elly May, Maude, Witchiepoo

How could she?

Why?

Why don't you love me anymore?

I said why?

Why don't you love me anymore?

Why?

Why don't you love me anymore?

I said why?

Why don't you love me anymore?

How could you?

How could you?

How could you?

How could you?

## Personnel

**Group performers**

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

**Session performer**

* Paul Bento – lead guitar

**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"