12 Black Rainbows

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"**12 Black Rainbows**" is a song by Type O Negative, included on their compilation album *The Least Worst Of*, released in 2000. This song was recorded when the album *World Coming Down* was being recorded but didn't make it to the album, but was included on the single of its track "Everything Dies". "12 Black Rainbows" revolves around non-sexual foreplay, relationship breakups, alcohol abuse, and heartache.

The number in the title was chosen from the 12 Apostles. The rest of the title, especially the color, refers to several times when light gone out in his life, meaning good times giving way to bad times. Each rainbow turning to black represented an aspect of Peter's life/personality slowly dying.

## Lyrics

Idle hands may be the devil's work

Unbridled minds you see are so much worse

Too much pity spent and wasting time

Irresponsibility not my only crime no

Obsessive thinking, depressed drinking

The person I once was, he's dead

Exhume the past this time or be my last

This is my final quest to remove my mask yeah

Don't be afraid as she pulled down the shade

Said there's nothing to fear but the monster is here

So just tell me the time, be it quarter of nine

Since the sun's gone away, now the creature will play

Ice blue eyes follow me everywhere i go

Making my heart appear as lead

I hate to wish it but I'll tell you though

That I'm quite ready 'cause I'm already dead

Don't be afraid as she pulled down the shade

Said there's nothing to fear but the monster is here

So just tell me the time, be it quarter of nine

Since the sun's gone away, now the creature will play

Don't be afraid as she pulled down the shade

Said there's nothing to fear but the monster is here

So just tell me the time, be it quarter of nine

Since the sun's gone away, now the creature will play

## Personnel

**Group performers**

* **Peter Steele** – vocals, bass, additional guitar & keyboards
* Kenny Hickey – guitar
* Josh Silver – keyboards
* Johnny Kelly – live drums

**Enginucers**

* **Peter Steele** – writing, preprogramming, production
* Mike Marciano – engineering, mixing
* Josh Silver – samples, effects, deprogramming, production
* Johnny Kelly – drum programming
* Kenny Hickey – deprogramming
* 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"

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"