Hail and Farewell to Britain

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"**Hail and Farewell to Britain**" is a song by Type O Negative, included on their seventh and final album *Dead Again*, released in 2007. This song tributes to the Britain-based band Deep Purple and has lyrics about life-struggle and self-loathing. The elements of this song resembles the common elements of their previous album *Life Is Killing Me*. The jets are heard at the end of this track just prior to the masculine scream in a way that sounds like he's on fire following a some sort of explosion.

This track is split into three cantos, with first and third cantos utilizing same musical pieces but different names.

## Lyrics

**[Canto I. "Pity"]**

Once upon a slime I thought you royalty

I would never have questioned your loyalty

Don't act so surprised, saw through you disguise

But with friends like you prefer my enemies, yeah, hell

Up until recently never had a clue

In a way I must admit I pity you

I'm through with you kind, 'cause you've wasted my time

Please do not release them, Lord knows what they do, yeah

I can't believe how cruel life is

Emotional blackmail makes me sick, oh so sick

[Choir]

**[Canto II. "Misfortune"]**

Who is to blame for constant shame on you

These words I use that don't confuse with cool

This misfortune not lost but won deserved

Choosing is hard, careful which God you serve

Traitors many, surrounding me cowards

Conspiracy so clear to see flowers

We were brothers 'til discovered, deceit

Tried with treason that's the reason you're beat

**[Canto III. "Hail and Farewell to Britain"]**

I can't believe how cruel life is

Emotional blackmail makes me sick, oh so sick

[Choir]

All hail and farewell to Britain

All hail and farewell to thee

All hail and farewell to England

All hail and farewell to me, me

All hail and farewell to Britain

All hail and farewell to thee

All hail and farewell to England

All hail and farewell to me, me

All hail and farewell to Britain

All hail and farewell to thee

All hail and farewell to England

All hail and farewell to me

## 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"