Pictures of Matchstick Men

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"**Pictures of Matchstick Men**" is a Type O Negative song that features Ozzy Osbourne on vocals and released as a promo single. A Status Quo cover, it is originally included on the movie soundtrack *Private Parts: The Album*, released in 1997, and later included on Ozzy Osbourne compilation *Prince of Darkness*. The song with Peter Steele on vocals was only included as low-quality demo version on *October Rust* cassette leaked to YouTube.

"Pictures of Matchstick Men" is about seeing the face of his girlfriend everywhere—underneath the pillow, reflection on the window, and her eyes seen in the sky.

There is a fan-made music video for this song.

## Lyrics

Oh

Ah

Oh

Ah

When I look up to the sky

I see your eyes in a funny kind of yellow

I rush to bed I soak my head

I see your face underneath my pillow

I wake next morning tossed and yawning

I see your face come peeping through my window

Oh no

Oh

Ah

Oh

Ah

Pictures of matchstick men and you

Images of matchstick men and you

All I ever see is them and... you

Oh

Ah

Oh

Ah

Windows echo your reflection

When I look in their direction

Gone

Yeah they're gone

When will this haunting stop

Your face just won't leave me alone

Oh no

Pictures of matchstick men and you

Images of matchstick men and you

All I ever see is them and you

Oh you're in the sky

You're with this guy

You make men cry, you lie

Pictures of matchstick men

Pictures of matchstick men

Pictures of matchstick men

Pictures of matchstick men

Pictures of matchstick men

Pictures of matchstick men

I can see those matchstick men

I can see those matchstick men

I can see those matchstick men

I can see those matchstick men

I can see those matchstick men

I can see those matchstick men

## Personnel

**Group performers**

* **Peter Steele** – vocals on Type O re-recorded version, bass, additional keyboards
* Kenny Hickey – guitar
* Josh Silver – keyboards
* Johnny Kelly – drums

**Guest performer**

* Ozzy Osbourne – vocals on the original cover version

**Enginucers**

* Ozzy Osbourne – writing
* Mike Marciano – engineering, mixing
* George Marino – mastering
* **Peter Steele** – production
* Josh Silver – production

## 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"

* "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"
 **StereoType O Negative songs**

* "In the Name of Love (Pride)"
* "Dolce Vita"
* "Last Christmas"
* "Wicked Game"