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"September Sun" is a song by Type O Negative, included on their seventh and final album Dead Again, released in 2007. This song lasts just shy of ten minutes and is split into three cantos. The first canto, titled "September Sun", features a piano ballad; the composition in the second canto, titled "Leave Her Alone", resembles The Smashing Pumpkins; then during the last canto of this track, titled "Relief from Grief", it plays a military-like symphonic tune that gives them emotional feeling to some listeners before it ends with a recorded message by Steele from his friend's answering machine in 1998. A laugh can be heard right when Canto III begins that started right before Canto II ends. Canto I talks about that Pete's wife turned into stone after ignoring the warning from God that if you look back, she'll turn into stone; canto II talks about defending his former girlfriend Elizabeth from abuse; canto III is about revealing that he knows why he did it to her.

The song almost didn't make the album as Peter Steele didn't really want it, but drummer Johnny Kelly talked their way to keeping this. Then ten months after the album's release on March 13, 2007, the single for this song was released on January 14, 2008. The single lasts just over four and a half minutes, less than half the duration of the album track. "September Sun" was the final single released by Type O Negative before Peter Steele died two years and three months after the release.

There is an official music video for this song.

Lyrics[]

[Canto I. "September Sun"]
September sun glowing golden hair
Now keep in mind son she was never there
October's rust bisecting black storm clouds
Only the deaf hear my silent shouts

Yet in the dark still he screams your name
Nights living death with witch rhymes insane
Ten years amassed para toda vida?
Lost man in time was his name Peter?

September sun rotted Flatbush porch
I would have run then had I known the cost
Autumnal rays turned your eyes to stone
Did it give you pleasure to steal my soul?

Yet in the dark still he screams your name
Nights living death with witch rhymes insane
Ten years amassed para toda vida?
Lost man in time was his name Peter?

[Canto II. "Leave Her Alone"]
Leave, leave her alone
I said leave her alone
Leave, leave her alone
I said leave her alone, alone

Leave, leave her alone
I said leave her alone
Leave, leave her alone
I said leave her alone, alone, alone

[Foreign content]

[Foreign content]

[Canto III. "Relief from Grief"]
Me, me, me, me, me, I know why
Me, me, me, me, me, I know why
Me, me, me, me, me, I know why
Me, me, me, me, me, I know, I know, I know why

Me, me, me, me, me, I know why
Me, me, me, me, me, I know why
Me, me, me, me, me, I know why
Me, me, me, me, me, I know, I know, I know why

Personnel[]

Group performers

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[]

Type O Negative songs
Slow, Deep and Hard The Origin of the Feces
Bloody Kisses October Rust
World Coming Down Life Is Killing Me
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"
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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