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"She Burned Me Down" is a song by Type O Negative, included on their seventh and final album Dead Again, released in 2007. The beginning of this song is punkish then it gets doomy, otherwise it's a gothic metal song. The song has two cantos, defined by those musical characteristics. Canto I of this song, eponymously titled "She Burned Me Down", details about the imagination of being burned to death started by his enraged girlfriend, while Canto II, titled "Start a Fire", is about getting high on drugs when his girlfriend starts a fire. Though eponymously titled, Canto I lasts just 30% of the duration of the track, while Canto II lasts the remaining 70% of the track.

Lyrics

[Canto I: She Burned Me Down. "{{{2}}}"]
She burned me down, down to the ground
She burned me down, down to the ground

Blood - though thicker than water - is harder to clean up
You'll get it in the end boy if the weapon of choice is love
Expecting it from a stranger or maybe an acquaintance
Never from family or friends though a simple mistake and expense

She burned me down, down to the ground
She burned me down, down to the ground

Pissed and disappointed I prey to learn to forgive
If I can't find it in my heart then I have no reason to live

Here is an education - the lesson professed is quite cruel
There are some things worse than death and one of them is you
Which one of them's you?

[Canto II: Start a Fire. "{{{2}}}"]
Every time I see her start a fire, I get higher
Every time I see her start a fire, I get higher
Every time, yes, every time I see, I get
Every time I see her start a fire, I get higher, higher

Every time I see her start a fire, I get higher
Every time I see her start a fire, I get higher
Every time, yes, every time I see, I get
Every time I see her start a fire, I get higher, higher

[Foreign content]

[Foreign content]

Every time, yes, every time I see, I get
Every time I see her start a fire, I get higher, higher

Every time I see her start a fire, I get higher
Every time I see her start a fire, I get high

Personnel

Group performers

Peter Steele – lead vocals, bass
Kenny Hickey – guitar, backing vocals
Josh Silver – keyboards, pipe organ, 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         = 7
- | part1         = She Burned Me Down
- | part2         = Start a Fire
  | duration      = 7:53
+ | genres        = <onlyinclude>{{genres|Goth metal|doom|hardcore}}</onlyinclude>
- | durpart1      = 2:24
- | durpart2      = 5:29
+ | canto_i       = She Burned Me Down
- | genres        = {{wp|Gothic metal}}
+ | i_range       = 0:00–2:23
+ | canto_ii      = Start a Fire
+ | ii_range      = 2:23–7:53
+ | succ_track    = Some Stupid Tomorrow
+ | post_track    = An Ode to Locksmiths
+ | prec_track    = These Three Things
+ | ante_track    = Halloween in Heaven
 }}
+{{Play|she+burned+me+down}}
-{{Song intro|Dead Again}} It is plainly a {{wp|gothic metal}} song having two parts. This song details about the imagination of being burned to death started by his enraged girlfriend.
+{{Song intro|Dead Again}} The beginning of this song is punkish then it gets doomy, otherwise it's a {{wp|gothic metal}} song. The song has two cantos, defined by those musical characteristics. Canto I of this song, eponymously titled "She Burned Me Down", details about the imagination of being burned to death started by his enraged girlfriend, while Canto II, titled "Start a Fire", is about getting high on drugs when his girlfriend starts a fire. Though eponymously titled, Canto I lasts just 30% of the duration of the track, while Canto II lasts the remaining 70% of the track.
 == Lyrics ==
+<poem>
-'''Part I: She Burned Me Down'''
+{{Canto|I: She Burned Me Down}}
- She burned me down, down to the ground
- She burned me down, down to the ground
+She burned me down, down to the ground
+She burned me down, down to the ground
- Blood - though thicker than water - is harder to clean up
- You'll get it in the end boy if the weapon of choice is love
- Expecting it from a stranger or maybe an acquaintance
- Never from family or friends though a simple mistake and expense
- She burned me down, down to the ground
- She burned me down, down to the ground
- Pissed and disappointed I prey to learn to forgive
- If I can't find it in my heart then I have no reason to live
- Here is an education - the lesson professed is quite cruel
- There are some things worse than death and one of them is you
- Which one of them's you?
+Blood - though thicker than water - is harder to clean up
-'''Part II: Start a Fire'''
+You'll get it in the end boy if the weapon of choice is love
- Every time I see her start a fire, I get higher
+Expecting it from a stranger or maybe an acquaintance
- Every time I see her start a fire, I get higher
+Never from family or friends though a simple mistake and expense
- Every time, yes, every time I see, I get
- Every time I see her start a fire, I get higher, higher
- Every time I see her start a fire, I get higher
- Every time I see her start a fire, I get higher
- Every time, yes, every time I see, I get
- Every time I see her start a fire, I get higher, higher
- [Foreign content]
- [Foreign content]
- Every time, yes, every time I see, I get
- Every time I see her start a fire, I get higher, higher
- Every time I see her start a fire, I get higher
- Every time I see her start a fire, I get high
-{{Play|she+burned+me+down}}
+She burned me down, down to the ground
+She burned me down, down to the ground
+Pissed and disappointed I prey to learn to forgive
+If I can't find it in my heart then I have no reason to live
+Here is an education - the lesson professed is quite cruel
+There are some things worse than death and one of them is you
+Which one of them's you?
+{{Canto|II: Start a Fire}}
+Every time I see her start a fire, I get higher
+Every time I see her start a fire, I get higher
+Every time, yes, every time I see, I get
+Every time I see her start a fire, I get higher, higher
+Every time I see her start a fire, I get higher
+Every time I see her start a fire, I get higher
+Every time, yes, every time I see, I get
+Every time I see her start a fire, I get higher, higher
+[Foreign content]
+[Foreign content]
+Every time, yes, every time I see, I get
+Every time I see her start a fire, I get higher, higher
+Every time I see her start a fire, I get higher
+Every time I see her start a fire, I get high
+</poem>
 == Personnel ==
+'''Group performers'''
-;Band members
 * [[Peter Steele]] – lead vocals, bass
 * [[Kenny Hickey]] – guitar, backing vocals
-* [[Josh Silver]] – keyboards, pipe organ, synths, effects, backing vocals
+* [[Josh Silver]] – keyboards, pipe organ, synth, backing vocals
 * [[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]]
+[[Category:Dead Again tracks]]
+[[Category:Songs divided into cantos]]
+[[Category:Cantos]]