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Black Sabbath – Paranoid
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This song by Black Sabbath is consistently ranked as one of the greatest heavy metal songs of all time. Maybe the biggest hit of Ozzy’s group, along with “Iron Man.”
The lyrics
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Black Sabbath – War Pigs
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As the opening track of the influential Black Sabbath album, Paranoid, “War Pigs” was originally titled “Walpurgis.” Walpurgis Night takes place on the 30th April to mark the eve
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Black Sabbath – Iron Man
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The guitar riff on this song is considered one of the most famous in rock history, and it is what the entire song was written around. And no, it’s not related to the Marvel
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Black Sabbath – Planet Caravan
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“Planet Caravan” is one of Sabbath’s lighter songs, featuring jazzy guitar playing, congas, and ethereal vocals provided by a Leslie speaker. It has a spiritual successor in “
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Black Sabbath – Paranoid [The End: Live in Birmingham]
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[Guitar Intro] / [Verse 1] / Finished with my woman, 'cause she couldn't help me / With my mind / People think I'm insane because I am frowning / All the time / [Verse 2] / All day
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Black Sabbath – Fairies Wear Boots
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This song is about Skinheads. At the time in England, Skinheads were not racists, but punks and anarchists. They usually wore boots, which is how Sabbath got the title.
We smoked
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Black Sabbath – Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (intro)/Paranoid [Live...Gathered in Their Masses]
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[Verse 1] / You seen life through distorted eyes, you know you had to learn / The execution of your mind, you really had to turn / The race is run, the book is read, the end begins
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Black Sabbath – Paranoid (Alternative Lyrics)
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This is an alternative version (probably, the first time they recorded it, a demo version), the differences from the official song are:
The lyrics are completely different, the
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Ty Dolla $ign (Ft. Joe Moses) – Paranoid
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The second song off of the Beach House 2 mixtape, Ty describes in “Paranoid” that he’s seeing two different women at the same time and trying to keep them a secret from each other
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Black Sabbath – Paranoid/Heaven And Hell [Cross Purposes Live]
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[Guitar Intro] / [Verse 1] / Finished with my woman, 'cause she couldn't help me / With my mind / People think I'm insane because I am frowning / All the time / [Verse 2] / All day
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Megadeth – Paranoid
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This song is a cover, originally performed by Black Sabbath on the 1970 album Paranoid.
The lyrics are about a band member’s feelings as a depressed teenager and him thinking he
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RMC Mike & Rio Da Yung OG – Paranoid
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[Intro: RMC Mike] / (Enrgy Beats) / Bitch / Ayy / [Verse 1: RMC Mike] / Don't believe everything you hear, boy, that ain't the truth / K shell break his face down, look like baby
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Post Malone – Paranoid
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“Paranoid” is the opening track to Post Malone’s long-awaited beerbongs & bentleys. Post details his doubts about his security and safety with his friends and his rise to fame. He
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Avenged Sevenfold – Paranoid
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[Verse 1] / Finished with my woman, 'cause she couldn't help me with my mind / People think I'm insane, because I am frowning all the time / All day long, I think of things, but
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Ken Carson (Ft. Destroy Lonely) – Paranoid
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“Paranoid”, previously dubbed “Kel-Tec” by fans, is a highly-anticipated song featuring frequent collaborator and labelmate Destroy Lonely.
The song was first previewed in an
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Vince Neil (Ft. George Lynch) – Paranoid
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I'm finished with my woman / 'Cause she couldn't help me with my mind / People think I'm insane / Because I am frowning all the time / All day long I think of things / But nothing
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Chase Atlantic – PARANOID
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[Verse 1] / Cold eyes / All my demons dance through the motherfuckin' nighttime / Said I wouldn't sniff it, took a whole line / Poison in my brain, feel it creeping through on both
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Black Sabbath – Electric Funeral
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This song is about a nuclear holocaust, a topic the band would often return to.
[For most of the bands of our time] it was all the ‘flowers in your hair’ and we wanted to sing and
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Black Sabbath – Hand of Doom
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“Hand of Doom” describes addiction, specifically intravenous drug abuse such as IV heroin. The light bass that opens the song sets a tone of impending doom. Ozzy claims that there
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State of Mine – Paranoid
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[Verse 1] / Finished with my woman / 'Cause she couldn't help me with my mind / People think I'm insane / Because I am frowning all the time / [Verse 2] / All day long, I think of
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Pantera – Planet Caravan
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This song is a cover, originally performed by Black Sabbath on the 1970 album Paranoid.
Planet Caravan’ was a song that we recorded for a Black Sabbath tribute record and it got
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Big Country – Paranoid
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Finished with my woman / 'Cause she couldn't help me with my mind / People say I'm insane / Because I am frowning all the time / All day long I think of things / But nothing seems
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Ozzy Osbourne – Paranoid [Live & Loud]
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[Guitar Intro] / [Verse 1] / Finished with my woman, 'cause she couldn't help me / With my mind / People think I'm insane because I am frowning / All the time / [Verse 2] / All day
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Black Sabbath – Am I Going Insane (Radio)
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It is a common misconception that this song on Sabotage is a radio edit. The word ‘Radio’ in brackets is actually Shortened Cockney Rhyming Slang for ‘Mental’; ‘Radio Rental’—which
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Kanye West (Ft. Mr. Hudson) – Paranoid
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In the closest thing that comes to normal rapped vocals from Ye on 808’s & Heartbreak, Yeezy is reflecting upon a past relationship and laments his frustrations to his past flame
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Black Sabbath – Rat Salad
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During performances Bill Ward would do very long drum solos to fill time. So they put one on the album.
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Black Sabbath – Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
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According to bassist Geezer Butler, this song is about the ‘Sabbath experience.’ The ups and downs, the good times and bad times, the rip-offs, the business side of it all. It was
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Ozzy Osbourne – Fairies Wear Boots [Speak of the Devil]
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The song, originally by Black Sabbath, comes from their album Paranoid. This version was recorded by Ozzy Osbourne at The Ritz in New York on the 26th and 27 September 1982. It
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