Tripping a Blind Man

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"**Tripping a Blind Man**" is a song by Type O Negative, included on their seventh and final album *Dead Again*, released in 2007. This song has a mini-moog beginning and has riffs resembling Black Sabbath in the '70s and melodies resembling The Beatles. The second half of this track is doomy. The first two cantos is about a harangue brought on by involuntary commitment of his family, while the third canto is about a dog fatally ran over by a truck grieving the dog owner so much that he committed suicide. Then the music of the first canto is reprised for the final 34 seconds of the track.

## Lyrics

**[Canto I. "Patience Is Divine"]**

Say the word and I'll be healed

Opened eyes grease my wheels

Since my vision's be restored

Trip me once shame on you

Trip me twice I'm the fool

Thought it's hidden I've been cured

Patience is divine but the virtue is not mine

Turn your cheek gets ripped off

That's why God gave us four

This is how you spend life

Amused by another's strife

Makes me so sad and confused

Someone's pain you leisure

Can't explain sick pleasure

I'm so glad I'm not you

Patience is divine but the virtue is not mine

Turn you cheek gets ripped off

That's why God gave us four

**[Canto II. "Tripping a Blind Man"]**

Throwing wrenches gave a false sense of power

What started sweet will soon turn sour

You think it's your place to dispense justice

Well I've been sent to judge the judges

God damn love 'cause it's breaking my heart

And if I had one wish I'd see in the dark

Tripping a blind man so easy to do

Tripping a blind man why can't it be you?

You want to play God and I know you will

If that's the case I'll be the devil

Now who the fuck are you to discipline me

Innocence condemned by the guilty?

God damn love 'cause it's breaking my heart

And if I had one wish I'd see in the dark

Tripping a blind man so easy to do

Tripping a blind man why can't it be you?

**[Canto III. "Cried Then Died"]**

Losing his grip of his seeing eye dog's spikey collar

Panicking, the startled pet ran to the street

Sanitation truck skidding unable to stop

Shoveled up what was left of his canine spot

As they left, the ground turned muddy crimson

Where's my mutt? The victim requested

EMS responded "he had to say bye"

Teary eyed, the old man cried then died, he died

Died, died, died, died, died, died

**[Canto IV. "Patience Is Divine" (reprise)]**

Patience is divine but the virtue is not mine

Turn your cheek it's ripped off that's why we're giving for

Patience is divine, the virtue is not mine

Eat your lies, peace is nice

## Personnel

**Group performers**

* **Peter Steele** – lead vocals, bass
* Kenny Hickey – guitar, backing vocals
* Josh Silver – keyboards, synth, 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"