An Ode to Locksmiths

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"**An Ode to Locksmiths**" is a song by Type O Negative, included on their seventh and final album *Dead Again*, released in 2007. This song features guitar riffs sounding like "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" and grooves resembling "Evil Woman" by Black Sabbath. Canto I of this track, titled "The Keys", is about finding a key to unlock the door accessing the Garden of Eden; Canto II: "Tree of Knowledge" talks about Satan forcing Eve to eat a forbidden apple from the tree after she was raped; and Canto III: "Ain't Goin' Home (Nowhere to Go)" talks about having nowhere to go while being in the Eden.

## Lyrics

**[Canto I. "The Keys"]**

Where the fuck are my keys?

Been given the keys I knew I'd receive

Be careful what you're asking for

Thy rod and thy staff simply twelve toned math

An earful opening all doors

Simon the roman gone fission for man

If you're caught is to be freed

Come open your lock by using a rock

Or sowing the proper seeds

**[Canto II. "Tree of Knowledge"]**

Woe to thee all woman of land, air and sea

Adam was the serpent apple 'tween his knees

Seduced by a snake worshiped by nations

Banished forth, from Eden it's the male who is Satan

From the tree of knowledge (a metaphor for sex)

Plucked a ripened globs of fruit that of her innocence

Since forbidden resisted forcing her to taste

Now I know why girls hate boys 'cause Eve was in fact raped, raped

**[Canto III. "Ain't Goin' Home (Nowhere to Go)"]**

You ain't goin' nowhere

Everybody, ready, let's go

We ain't goin' home - got nowhere to go

We ain't goin' home - got nowhere to go

We ain't goin' home - got nowhere to go

We ain't goin' home - got nowhere to go

Nowhere to go

Nowhere to go

Come on, you come on

We ain't goin' home - got nowhere to go

We ain't goin' home - got nowhere to go

We ain't goin' home - got nowhere to go

We ain't goin' home - got nowhere to go

Nowhere to go

Nowhere to go

Nowhere to go

## Personnel

**Group performers**

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

**Enginucers**

* **Peter Steele** – writing, production
* Josh Silver – engineering, recording, effects, mixing, mastering, production
* Mike Marciano – engineering, recording, mixing, mastering
* Paul Bento – additional recording engineering
* Type O Negative – arrangement

## 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"