Anesthesia

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"**Anesthesia**" is a song by Type O Negative, included on their sixth album *Life Is Killing Me*, released in 2003. This is a popularly well-liked song by fans with its rhythm and change of character in them. It has a part resembling that of the band Paradise Lost. It is about living in the dark times with no sensitivity to pain, hence the meaning of anesthesia. The song fades till the end when it's 30 seconds left, then the soft piano comes in and Pete whispers the final lyric line.

## Lyrics

Like a flash of light in an endless night

Life is trapped between two black entities

'Cause when you trust someone, illusion has begun

No way to prepare, impending despair... despair

Did one say so cruel: "Tis better to love than lose"

Ignorance is bliss - wish not knew your kiss

So many times been burned, this lesson goes unlearned

Remember desire only fuels the fire - liar

Betwixt birth and death, every breath regret

I pity the living, envy for the dead

Emotionally stunned, in defense, I'm numb

I'd rather not care than to be aware - be scared

I don't need love

I don't need love

I don't need love

I don't need love

Are a thousand tears worth a single smile?

When you give an inch, will they take a mile?

Longing for the past but dreading the future

If not being used, well then you're a user and a loser, bye

World renowned failure at both death and life

Given nothingness, purgatory blight

To run and hide, a cowardly procedure

Options exhausted, except for anesthesia - anesthesia, uhh

I don't feel anything... anything

I don't feel anything... anything

I don't feel anything... anything

I don't feel anything... anything... anything... anything... real

I don't feel anything... anything... anything... anything...

## Personnel

**Group performers**

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

**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"