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"An Ode to Locksmiths" is a song by Type O Negative, included on their seventh and final album Dead Again, released in 2007. This song features guitar riffs sounding like "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" and grooves resembling "Evil Woman" by Black Sabbath. Canto I of this track, titled "Tree of Knowledge", talks about Satan forcing Eve to eat a forbidden apple from the tree after she was raped, and "Canto II: Ain't Goin' Home", talks about having nowhere to go.

Lyrics

[Canto I: Tree of Knowledge. "{{{2}}}"]
Where the fuck are my keys?

Been given the keys I knew I'd receive
Be careful what you're asking for
Thy rod and thy staff simply twelve toned math
An earful opening all doors

Simon the roman gone fission for man
If you're caught is to be freed
Come open your lock by using a rock
Or sowing the proper seeds

Woe to thee all woman of land, air and sea
Adam was the serpent apple 'tween his knees
Seduced by a snake worshiped by nations
Banished forth, from Eden it's the male who is Satan

From the tree of knowledge (a metaphor for sex)
Plucked a ripened globs of fruit that of her innocence
Since forbidden resisted forcing her to taste
Now I know why girls hate boys 'cause Eve was in fact raped

From the tree of knowledge (a metaphor for sex)
Plucked a ripened globs of fruit that of her innocence
Since forbidden resisted forcing her to taste
Now I know why girls hate boys 'cause Eve was in fact raped, raped

[Canto II: Ain't Goin' Home. "{{{2}}}"]
You ain't goin' nowhere
Everybody, ready, let's go

We ain't goin' home - got nowhere to go
We ain't goin' home - got nowhere to go
We ain't goin' home - got nowhere to go
We ain't goin' home - got nowhere to go
Nowhere to go
Nowhere to go

Come on, you come on

We ain't goin' home - got nowhere to go
We ain't goin' home - got nowhere to go
We ain't goin' home - got nowhere to go
We ain't goin' home - got nowhere to go
Nowhere to go
Nowhere to go
Nowhere to go

Personnel

Group performers

Peter Steele – lead vocals, bass
Kenny Hickey – guitar, backing vocals, co-lead vocals
Josh Silver – keyboards, 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

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"

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  | duration      = 5:15
- | genres        = {{wp|Gothic metal}}
+ | genres        = <onlyinclude>{{wp|Gothic metal}}</onlyinclude>
- | canto1        = Tree of Knowledge
+ | canto_i       = Tree of Knowledge
- | canto1_start  = 0:00
+ | i_range       = 0:00–3:17
- | canto1_dur    = 3:17
+ | canto_ii      = Ain't Goin' Home
- | canto2        = Ain't Goin' Home
+ | ii_range      = 3:17–5:15
+ | succ_track    = Hail and Farewell to Britain
- | canto2_start  = 3:17
- | canto2_dur    = 1:57
+ | post_track    =
+ | prec_track    = Some Stupid Tomorrow
+ | ante_track    = She Burned Me Down
 }}
+{{Play|an+ode+to+locksmiths}}
 {{Song intro|Dead Again}} This song features guitar riffs sounding like "{{wp|Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (song)|Sabbath Bloody Sabbath}}" and grooves resembling "{{wp|Evil Woman (Crow song)|Evil Woman}}" by {{wp|Black Sabbath}}. Canto I of this track, titled "Tree of Knowledge", talks about Satan forcing Eve to eat a forbidden apple from the tree after she was raped, and "Canto II: Ain't Goin' Home", talks about having nowhere to go.
 == Lyrics ==
+<poem>
-'''Canto I: Tree of Knowledge'''
+{{Canto|I: Tree of Knowledge}}
- Where the fuck are my keys?
+Where the fuck are my keys?
- Been given the keys I knew I'd receive
- Be careful what you're asking for
- Thy rod and thy staff simply twelve toned math
- An earful opening all doors
- Simon the roman gone fission for man
- If you're caught is to be freed
- Come open your lock by using a rock
- Or sowing the proper seeds
- Woe to thee all woman of land, air and sea
- Adam was the serpent apple 'tween his knees
- Seduced by a snake worshiped by nations
- Banished forth, from Eden it's the male who is Satan
- From the tree of knowledge (a metaphor for sex)
- Plucked a ripened globs of fruit that of her innocence
- Since forbidden resisted forcing her to taste
- Now I know why girls hate boys 'cause Eve was in fact raped
- From the tree of knowledge (a metaphor for sex)
- Plucked a ripened globs of fruit that of her innocence
- Since forbidden resisted forcing her to taste
- Now I know why girls hate boys 'cause Eve was in fact raped, raped
+Been given the keys I knew I'd receive
-'''Canto II: Ain't Goin' Home'''
+Be careful what you're asking for
- You ain't goin' nowhere
+Thy rod and thy staff simply twelve toned math
- Everybody, ready, let's go
+An earful opening all doors
- We ain't goin' home - got nowhere to go
- We ain't goin' home - got nowhere to go
- We ain't goin' home - got nowhere to go
- We ain't goin' home - got nowhere to go
- Nowhere to go
- Nowhere to go
- Come on, you come on
- We ain't goin' home - got nowhere to go
- We ain't goin' home - got nowhere to go
- We ain't goin' home - got nowhere to go
- We ain't goin' home - got nowhere to go
- Nowhere to go
- Nowhere to go
- Nowhere to go
+Simon the roman gone fission for man
-{{Play|an+ode+to+locksmiths}}
+If you're caught is to be freed
+Come open your lock by using a rock
+Or sowing the proper seeds
+Woe to thee all woman of land, air and sea
+Adam was the serpent apple 'tween his knees
+Seduced by a snake worshiped by nations
+Banished forth, from Eden it's the male who is Satan
+From the tree of knowledge (a metaphor for sex)
+Plucked a ripened globs of fruit that of her innocence
+Since forbidden resisted forcing her to taste
+Now I know why girls hate boys 'cause Eve was in fact raped
+From the tree of knowledge (a metaphor for sex)
+Plucked a ripened globs of fruit that of her innocence
+Since forbidden resisted forcing her to taste
+Now I know why girls hate boys 'cause Eve was in fact raped, raped
+{{Canto|II: Ain't Goin' Home}}
+You ain't goin' nowhere
+Everybody, ready, let's go
+We ain't goin' home - got nowhere to go
+We ain't goin' home - got nowhere to go
+We ain't goin' home - got nowhere to go
+We ain't goin' home - got nowhere to go
+Nowhere to go
+Nowhere to go
+Come on, you come on
+We ain't goin' home - got nowhere to go
+We ain't goin' home - got nowhere to go
+We ain't goin' home - got nowhere to go
+We ain't goin' home - got nowhere to go
+Nowhere to go
+Nowhere to go
+Nowhere to go
+</poem>
 == Personnel ==
+'''Group performers'''
-;Band members
 * [[Peter Steele]] – lead vocals, bass
 * [[Kenny Hickey]] – guitar, backing vocals, co-lead vocals
-* [[Josh Silver]] – keyboards, effects, backing vocals
+* [[Josh Silver]] – keyboards, backing vocals
-* [[Johnny Kelly]] – drums, percussion
+* [[Johnny Kelly]] – drums
+'''Enginucers'''
-;Production
-* Written by [[Peter Steele]]
+* [[Peter Steele]] – writing, production
+* [[Josh Silver]] – engineering, recording, effects, mixing, mastering, production
-* Arranged by [[Type O Negative]]
+* {{wp|Mike Marciano}} – engineering, recording, mixing, mastering
-* Produced by [[Peter Steele]] and [[Josh Silver]]
+* Paul Bento – additional recording engineering
-* Recorded, mixed and mastered by [[Josh Silver]] and {{wp|Mike Marciano}}
+* [[Type O Negative]] – arrangement
-* Additional recordings engineered by Paul Bento
 {{Songs}}
 [[Category:Songs]]
+[[Category:Dead Again tracks]]
 [[Category:Songs divided into cantos]]
-[[Category:Dead Again]]