...A Dish Best Served Coldly

"...A Dish Best Served Coldly"
Year	2003
Album	Life Is Killing Me
Track number	6
Duration	7:13
Genre(s)	Gothic metal, doom metal

"...A Dish Best Served Coldly" is a song by Type O Negative, included on their sixth album Life Is Killing Me, released in 2003. This song features the acoustic guitar and choirs by Kenny Hickey, as well as what sounds like metal cooking pots embedded in it. The lyrics is about the unregrettable battle in the world with no enacted laws.

Lyrics

What makes you think that you have won
When the battle has only just begun?
Let the punishment fit the crime
Bad things come to those in all good time

My mistake was to put you first
Deceitful bubble was so soon to burst
I asked you - believe in just us
Now my faith lie in mine own justice

How many times must I say I'm not sorry?
And how many ways can I show I don't care?

Rotting bodies of enemies
Cannot smell sweet enough to me
What is the price of a friend
Who would carry out revenge?

In this bleak world of absent laws
One in which the just are whores
An honor to die for the truth
Eye for an eye, and tooth for tooth

How many times must I say I'm not sorry?
And how many ways can I show I don't care?

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Personnel

Performers

• Peter Steele – lead vocals, bass, keyboards
• Josh Silver – keyboards, effects, backing vocals
• Kenny Hickey – guitar, acoustic guitar, choirs, co-lead vocals
• Johnny Kelly – drums

Production

• Written by Peter Steele
• Engineered by Josh Silver and Mike Marciano
• Mixed by Josh Silver, Peter Steele and Mike Marciano
• Mastered by George Marino
• Produced by Josh Silver and Peter Steele

Links to other songs

Type O Negative songs
Slow, Deep and Hard "Unsuccessfully Coping with the Natural Beauty of Infidelity" "Der Untermensch" "Xero Tolerance" "Prelude to Agony" "Glass Walls of Limbo" "The Misinterpretation of Silence and its Disastrous Consequences" "Gravitational Constant: G = 6.67 × 10−8 cm−3 gm−1 sec−2"	The Origin of the Feces "I Know You're Fucking Someone Else" "Are You Afraid" "Gravity" "Pain" "Kill You Tonight" "Hey Pete" "Kill You Tonight (reprise)" "Paranoid" (bonus track)
Bloody Kisses "Machine Screw" "Christian Woman" "Black No. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All)" "Fay Wray Come Out and Play" "Kill All the White People" "Summer Breeze" "Set Me on Fire" "Dark Side of the Womb" "We Hate Everyone" "Bloody Kisses (A Death in the Family)" "3.0.I.F." "Too Late: Frozen" "Blood & Fire" "Can't Lose You" "Suspended in Dusk" (on special editions only) "Black Sabbath (From the Satanic Perspective)" (on special editions only) "Summer Girl" (unreleased)	October Rust "Bad Ground" "Intro" "Love You to Death" "Be My Druidess" "Green Man" "Red Water (Christmas Mourning)" "My Girlfriend's Girlfriend" "Die with Me" "Burnt Flowers Fallen" "In Praise of Bacchus" "Cinnamon Girl" "The Glorious Liberation of the People's Technocratic Republic of Vinnland by the Combined Forces of the United Territories of Europa" "Wolf Moon" "Haunted" "Outro"
World Coming Down "Skip It" "White Slavery" "Sinus" "Everyone I Love Is Dead" "Who Will Save the Sane?" "Liver" "World Coming Down" "Creepy Green Light" "Everything Dies" "Lung" "Pyretta Blaze" "All Hallows Eve" "Day Tripper"	Life Is Killing Me "Thir13teen" "I Don't Wanna Be Me" "Less than Zero (<0)" "Todd's Ship Gods (Above All Things)" "I Like Goils" "...A Dish Best Served Coldly" "How Could She?" "Life Is Killing Me" "Nettie" "(We Were) Electrocute" "IYDKMIGTHTKY (Gimme That)" "Angry Inch" "Anesthesia" "Drunk in Paris" "The Dream Is Dead" "Out of the Fire" (bonus track)
Dead Again "Dead Again" "Tripping a Blind Man" "The Profit of Doom" "September Sun" "Halloween in Heaven" "These Three Things" "She Burned Me Down" "Some Stupid Tomorrow" "An Ode to Locksmiths" "Hail and Farewell to Britain"	Songs from non-studio albums "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"