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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. 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. "{{{2}}}"]
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 mi 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 mi vida?
Lost man in time was his name Peter?

[Canto II: Leave Her Alone. "{{{2}}}"]
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. "{{{2}}}"]
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

Peter Steele – lead vocals, bass
Kenny Hickey – guitar, backing vocals, co-lead vocals
Josh Silver – keyboards, piano, synth, 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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  | album         = Dead Again
  | track         = 4
- | canto1        = September Sun
- | canto2        = Leave Her Alone
- | canto3        = Relief from Grief
  | duration      = 9:47
+ | genres        = <onlyinclude>{{genres|Goth rock|goth metal}}</onlyinclude>
- | canto1_dur    = 3:07
- | canto2_dur    = 3:57
+ | canto_i       = September Sun
- | canto3_dur    = 2:42
+ | i_range       = 0:00–3:07
- | genres        = {{wp|Gothic rock}}, {{wp|gothic metal}}
+ | canto_ii      = Leave Her Alone
+ | ii_range      = 3:07–7:04
+ | canto_iii     = Relief from Grief
+ | iii_range     = 7:04–9:47
  | released      = January 14, 2008
  | label         = SPV
- | dur_edit      = 4:35
+ | single_dur    = 4:35
+ | succ_track    = Halloween in Heaven
+ | post_track    = These Three Things
+ | prec_track    = The Profit of Doom
+ | ante_track    = Tripping a Blind Man
 }}
+{{Play|september+sun}}
-{{Song intro|Dead Again}} 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 {{wp|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. Canto I talks about that Pete's wife turned into stone after ignoring the warning from God that if you like back, you'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.
+{{Song intro|Dead Again}} 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 {{wp|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. 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 single for this song was released on January 14, 2008, ten months after the album's release on March 13, 2007. 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.
+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.
+{{Music video|official|kJhUs9PQvHs}}
 == Lyrics ==
+<poem>
-'''Canto I: September Sun'''
- September sun glowing golden hair
+{{Canto|I: September Sun}}
+September sun glowing golden hair
- Now keep in mind son she was never there
+Now keep in mind son she was never there
- October's rust bisecting black storm clouds
+October's rust bisecting black storm clouds
- Only the deaf hear my silent shouts
+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 mi 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 mi vida?
- Lost man in time was his name Peter?
+Yet in the dark still he screams your name
-'''Canto II: Leave Her Alone'''
+Nights living death with witch rhymes insane
- Leave, leave her alone
+Ten years amassed para toda mi vida?
- I said leave her alone
+Lost man in time was his name Peter?
- 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]
+September sun rotted Flatbush porch
-'''Canto III: Relief from Grief'''
+I would have run then had I known the cost
- Me, me, me, me, me, I know why
+Autumnal rays turned your eyes to stone
- Me, me, me, me, me, I know why
+Did it give you pleasure to steal my soul?
- 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
+Yet in the dark still he screams your name
-{{Play|september+sun}}
+Nights living death with witch rhymes insane
+Ten years amassed para toda mi 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
+</poem>
 == Personnel ==
-;Band performers
+'''Group performers'''
 * [[Peter Steele]] – lead vocals, bass
 * [[Kenny Hickey]] – guitar, backing vocals, co-lead vocals
-* [[Josh Silver]] – keyboards, piano, synths, effects, backing vocals
+* [[Josh Silver]] – keyboards, piano, synth, backing vocals
 * [[Johnny Kelly]] – drums
+'''Enginucers'''
-;Production
-* Written by [[Peter Steele]]
+* [[Peter Steele]] – writing, production
+* [[Josh Silver]] – engineering, recording, effects, mixing, mastering, production
-* Recorded, mixed and mastered by [[Josh Silver]] and {{wp|Mike Marciano}}
+* {{wp|Mike Marciano}} – engineering, recording, mixing, mastering
-* Additional recordings engineered by Paul Bento
+* Paul Bento – additional recording engineering
-* Arranged by [[Type O Negative]]
-* Produced by [[Type O Negative]]
+* [[Type O Negative]] – arrangement
 {{Songs}}
 [[Category:Songs]]
+[[Category:Dead Again tracks]]
 [[Category:Songs divided into cantos]]
 [[Category:Cantos]]
-[[Category:Dead Again]]
 [[Category:Singles]]
+[[Category:Songs featuring music video]]
+[[Category:Songs that has cover art]]