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"Red Water (Christmas Mourning)" is a song by Type O Negative, included on their fourth album October Rust, released in 1996. This inspirational song is about Pete's father dying on Christmas morning as well as three other of his family members since the previous Christmas. Hence the word Christmas in its title, the song is flavored with Christmas bells and chimes, and it is slow like many Christmas songs and never speeds up. The song can be used to ease their pain for those who've lost family members around Christmas time.
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Lyrics
Wake up, it's Christmas mourn
Those loved have long since gone
The stockings are hung but who cares?
Preserved for those no longer there
Six feet beneath me sleep
Black lights hang from the tree
Accents of dead holly
Whoa mistletoe
(It's growing cold)
I'm seeing ghost
(I'm drinking old)
Red water
Red water
(Red water)
Red water chase them away
My tables been set for but seven
Just last year I dined with eleven
Goddamn ye
Merry gentlemen
Whoa mistletoe
(It's growing cold)
I'm seeing ghosts
(I'm drinking old)
Red water
Red water
(Red water)
Red water chase them away
(Chase them away)
(Don't chase them away)
Personnel
Group performers
- Peter Steele – lead vocals, bass
- Kenny Hickey – guitar, additional vocals
- Josh Silver – keyboards, synth, backing vocals
- Johnny Kelly – live drums, percussion
Enginucers
- Peter Steele – writing, production
- Mike Marciano – engineering, mixing
- Josh Silver – drum programming, effects, production
- George Marino – mastering