In Praise of Bacchus

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"**In Praise of Bacchus**" is a song by Type O Negative, included on their fourth album *October Rust*, released in 1996. This song, also known as "She Hates Me", reflects on his girlfriend hating him so much that she wants him to be burned. This song features a female choir by Val Ium of Pist.On.

It is the third single released from the album *October Rust*.

## Lyrics

Hey Bacchus hey

She hates me

Hey Bacchus hey

She hates me

She hates me

Hey Bacchus hey

She hates me

Hey Bacchus hey

She hates me

The street lamps light a wet old red hook road

A furry vino tinted slave

Molten oil painted Brooklyn Bridge

(Cobblestone grave)

A lonely blue girl guards the riverbed

She shakes her brown torch at the tide

On Pier Six we'd creep and count the cracks...

(Side by side

Side by side

See, we're counting cracks)

Your mom was out wearing herself inside

I'll stop the train to say hello

A used boyfriend's just bought her this new car

(I said I know)

She said burn

Together

Burn

We'll burn together

Hey Bacchus hey

She hates me

(Hates me)

Hey Bacchus hey

She hates me

(She hates me)

She hates me

She hates me

She said burn

Together

She said burn

Together

Burn

We'll burn together

(Burning together)

Now don't believe she'll never leave again

I can't forget the words she said back when

She said burn

We'll burn together

(Burning together)

## Personnel

**Group performers**

* **Peter Steele** – lead vocals, bass
* Kenny Hickey – guitar, backing vocals
* Josh Silver – keyboards, piano, synth, backing vocals
* Johnny Kelly – live drums, percussion, backing vocals

**Guest performer**

* Val Ium – backing vocals

**Enginucers**

* **Peter Steele** – writing, production
* Mike Marciano – engineering, mixing
* Josh Silver – drum programming, effects, production
* 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)

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"
 ***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"