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"Life Is Killing Me" is a song by Type O Negative, included on their sixth album Life Is Killing Me, released in 2003. It begins with the sound of emergency room and ambulance siren before getting into keyboard-laden riff, then a gentle womanly choir followed by thunderous chorus. The song talks about Pete's criticism of medical profession and about wanting to die rather than being treated.

Lyrics[]

Like a Jew in ancient Spain
And for Christ's name did pay with pain
Modern day inquisition
What is the link between these crafts?
Doctors and thieves, they both wear masks
Overpaid meat magicians

Life is killing me
Life is killing me
Life is killing me
Life is killing me

Your doctorate and Ph.D.
Would wipe my ass etched in feces
Will not cure your affliction
Doctors Jeckyll or Mengele
And your face too, they're just a blur
Can't improve my condition

Life is killing me
Life is killing me
Life is killing me
Life is killing me

Appointment made, waited three hours
Did not realize you had such power
I'd rather see a mortician
Your parents saved or had the bucks
Your education stems from luck
Future corpse: death by physician

I have no choice: devoid of rights
So pull the plug, it's my damned life
Keep me alive to increase your bill
A Red Cross hell? - the hospital!

Just let me die with dignity
It's not suicide, simply mercy

Just who do you think you are?
Medical school don't make you God
Now I don't care what you've been taught
Just get me off this life support

Just let me die, with dignity
It's not suicide, simply mercy

Life is killing me
Life is killing me
Life is killing me
Life is killing me

I said life is killing me
Life is killing me

I said life is killing me
Life is killing me
Life is killing me

Personnel[]

Group performers

Session performer

  • The Bensonhoist Lesbian Choir – choirs

Enginucers

Links to other songs[]

Type O Negative songs
Slow, Deep and Hard The Origin of the Feces
Bloody Kisses October Rust
World Coming Down Life Is Killing Me
  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 Songs from non-studio albums
StereoType O Negative songs
  • "In the Name of Love (Pride)"
  • "Dolce Vita"
  • "Last Christmas"
  • "Wicked Game"
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