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"Christian Woman" is a song by Type O Negative, included on the third album Bloody Kisses, released in 1993. It is the band's landmark song that propelled Type O Negative into mainstream popularity. It has '80s new wave edge. The song is about a Christian woman complicating her thoughts about God. Pete Steele told Revolver, "[Christian woman] would get off on breaking the rules a little bit. She would ask me to dress up as a priest and, well, I guess you can just imagine what would happen after that. So, I guess you could say I have a bit of a priest infection."

This song is split into three cantos. The first canto, "Body of Christ (Corpus Christi)", is a radio hit and the only canto played on the single. The second canto, "To Love God", features sitar and tambura. The third canto, "Jesus Christ Looks Like Me", features the use of cowbells. The title of the third canto is taken from the title of the supposed third Carnivore album that didn't happen.

There is an official music video for this song.

Lyrics[edit | edit source]

Canto I: Body of Christ (Corpus Christi)
Forgive her
For she knows
Not what she does...

A cross upon her bedroom wall
From grace she will fall
An image burning in her mind
And between her thighs

A dying God-man full of pain
When will you cum again?

Before him beg to serve or please
On your back or knees

There's no forgiveness for her sins
Prefers punishment?

Would you suffer eternally
Or internally?

Ah

For her lust
She'll burn in hell
Her soul done medium well

All through mass manual stimulation
Salvation

Corpus Christi
She needs
Corpus Christi
Corpus Christi

Corpus Christi
She needs
Corpus Christi
Corpus Christi

Body of Christ
She needs
Body of Christ
Body of Christ

Canto II: To Love God
She'd like to know God
Love God

Feel her God
Inside of her - deep inside of her

She'd like to know God
Love God

Feel, feel, feel
Her God
Inside of her
Deep inside of her

Inside of her
Deep inside of her

Canto III: Jesus Christ Looks Like Me
Jesus Christ looks like me
Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ looks like me
Jesus Christ

Jesus Christ looks like me
Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ looks like me
Jesus Christ

Jesus Christ looks like me
Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ looks like me
Jesus Christ

Jesus Christ looks like me
Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ looks like me
Jesus Christ

Personnel[edit | edit source]

Group performers

Peter Steele – lead vocals, bass
Kenny Hickey – guitar, additional vocals
Josh Silver – keyboards, synths, backing vocals
Sal Abruscato – drums, percussion, cowbells

Session performers

Paul Bento – sitar, tambura
The Bensonhoist Lesbian Choir – choir

Enginucers

Peter Steele – writing, production
Mike Marciano – engineering, mixing
Josh Silver – effects, programming, production
George Marino – mastering

Links to other songs[edit source]

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"
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" · "Black Sabbath (From the Satanic Perspective)" · "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"
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"

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  | album         = Bloody Kisses
  | track         = On regular version: 2<br>On digipak: 1
- | canto1        = Body of Christ (Corpus Christi)
- | canto2        = To Love God
- | canto3        = J.C. Looks Like Me
  | duration      = 8:58
+ | genres        = <onlyinclude>{{genres|Goth metal|New Wave}}</onlyinclude>
- | canto1_dur    = 4:22
+ | canto_i       = Body of Christ (Corpus Christi)
- | canto2_dur    = 2:50
- | canto3_dur    = 1:45
+ | i_range       = 0:00–4:21
- | genres        = {{wp|Gothic metal}}
+ | canto_ii      = To Love God
+ | ii_range      = 4:21–7:12
+ | canto_iii     = Jesus Christ Looks Like Me
+ | iii_range     = 7:12–8:58
  | released      = 1993
  | label         = Roadrunner
- | dur_edit      = 4:26
+ | single_dur    = 4:26
+ | succ_track    = Black No. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All)
+ | post_track    = Fay Wray Come Out and Play
+ | prec_track    = Machine Screw
+ | ante_track    =
 }}
+{{Play|christian+woman}}
+{{Song intro|Bloody Kisses}} It is the band's landmark song that propelled Type O Negative into mainstream popularity. It has '80s new wave edge. The song is about a Christian woman complicating her thoughts about God. [[Pete Steele]] told [https://www.revolvermag.com/music/bloody-kisses-10-things-you-didnt-know-type-o-negatives-masterpiece?fbclid=IwAR2-1mCYacuwBbsfHx_OAaxCMKdBefWMmA0uPR1V72eA3pEDya4xFYgS-FY ''Revolver''], "[Christian woman] would get off on breaking the rules a little bit. She would ask me to dress up as a priest and, well, I guess you can just imagine what would happen after that. So, I guess you could say I have a bit of a priest infection."
+This song is split into three cantos. The first canto, "Body of Christ (Corpus Christi)", is a radio hit and the only canto played on the single. The second canto, "To Love God", features sitar and tambura. The third canto, "Jesus Christ Looks Like Me", features the use of cowbells. The title of the third canto is taken from the title of the supposed third {{wp|Carnivore (band)|Carnivore}} album that didn't happen.
+{{Music video|official|3sMALbhJU6M}}
-{{Song intro|Bloody Kisses}} It is the band's landmark song that help propel Type O Negative into mainstream popularity. The song is about a Christian Woman complicating her thoughts about the God. This song is split into three cantos. The first canto, "Body of Christ (Corpus Christi)", is where the single exclusively plays. The second canto, "To Love God", features acoustic guitar and tambura. The third canto, "J.C. Looks Like Me", features the use of cowbells.
 == Lyrics ==
+<poem>
-'''Canto I: Body of Christ (Corpus Christi)'''
+{{Canto|I: Body of Christ (Corpus Christi)}}
- Forgive her
+Forgive her
- For she knows
- Not what she does...
+For she knows
+Not what she does...
- A cross upon her bedroom wall
- From grace she will fall
- An image burning in her mind
- And between her thighs
- A dying God-man full of pain
- When will you cum again?
- Before him beg to serve or please
- On your back or knees
- There's no forgiveness for her sins
- Prefers punishment?
- Would you suffer eternally
- Or internally?
- Ah
- For her lust
- She'll burn in hell
- Her soul done medium well
- All through mass manual stimulation
- Salvation
- Corpus Christi
- She needs
- Corpus Christi
- Corpus Christi
- Corpus Christi
- She needs
- Corpus Christi
- Corpus Christi
- Body of Christ
- She needs
- Body of Christ
- Body of Christ
+A cross upon her bedroom wall
-'''Canto II: To Love God'''
+From grace she will fall
- She'd like to know God
+An image burning in her mind
- love God
+And between her thighs
- Feel her God
- Inside of her - deep inside of her
- She'd like to know God
- Love God
- Feel, feel, feel
- Her God
- Inside of her
- Deep inside of her
- Inside of her
- Deep inside of her
+A dying God-man full of pain
-'''Canto III: J.C. Looks Like Me'''
+When will you cum again?
- Jesus Christ looks like me
- Jesus Christ
- Jesus Christ looks like me
- Jesus Christ
- Jesus Christ looks like me
- Jesus Christ
- Jesus Christ looks like me
- Jesus Christ
- Jesus Christ looks like me
- Jesus Christ
- Jesus Christ looks like me
- Jesus Christ
- Jesus Christ looks like me
- Jesus Christ
- Jesus Christ looks like me
- Jesus Christ
+Before him beg to serve or please
-{{Play|christian+woman}}
+On your back or knees
+There's no forgiveness for her sins
+Prefers punishment?
+Would you suffer eternally
+Or internally?
+Ah
+For her lust
+She'll burn in hell
+Her soul done medium well
+All through mass manual stimulation
+Salvation
+Corpus Christi
+She needs
+Corpus Christi
+Corpus Christi
+Corpus Christi
+She needs
+Corpus Christi
+Corpus Christi
+Body of Christ
+She needs
+Body of Christ
+Body of Christ
+{{Canto|II: To Love God}}
+She'd like to know God
+Love God
+Feel her God
+Inside of her - deep inside of her
+She'd like to know God
+Love God
+Feel, feel, feel
+Her God
+Inside of her
+Deep inside of her
+Inside of her
+Deep inside of her
+{{Canto|III: Jesus Christ Looks Like Me}}
+Jesus Christ looks like me
+Jesus Christ
+Jesus Christ looks like me
+Jesus Christ
+Jesus Christ looks like me
+Jesus Christ
+Jesus Christ looks like me
+Jesus Christ
+Jesus Christ looks like me
+Jesus Christ
+Jesus Christ looks like me
+Jesus Christ
+Jesus Christ looks like me
+Jesus Christ
+Jesus Christ looks like me
+Jesus Christ
+</poem>
 == Personnel ==
-;Band performers
+'''Group performers'''
 * [[Peter Steele]] – lead vocals, bass
 * [[Kenny Hickey]] – guitar, additional vocals
-* [[Josh Silver]] – keyboards, synths, effects, programming, backing vocals
+* [[Josh Silver]] – keyboards, synths, backing vocals
-* [[Sal Abruscato]] – drums, percussion
+* [[Sal Abruscato]] – drums, percussion, cowbells
-;Additional performers
+'''Session performers'''
 * Paul Bento – {{wikt|sitar}}, {{wikt|tambura}}
 * The Bensonhoist Lesbian Choir – choir
+'''Enginucers'''
-;Production
-* Written by [[Peter Steele]]
+* [[Peter Steele]] – writing, production
-* Engineered and mixed by {{wp|Mike Marciano}}
+* {{wp|Mike Marciano}} – engineering, mixing
+* [[Josh Silver]] – effects, programming, production
-* Mastered by {{wp|George Marino}}
+* {{wp|George Marino}} – mastering
-* Produced by [[Peter Steele]] and [[Josh Silver]]
 {{Songs}}
 [[Category:Songs]]
+[[Category:Bloody Kisses tracks]]
 [[Category:Songs divided into cantos]]
-[[Category:Bloody Kisses]]
 [[Category:Singles]]
+[[Category:Songs featuring music video]]