 Genius Lyrics
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Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath
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While earlier tracks by bands such as Led Zeppelin and Iron Butterfly still cause debates over whether they’re hard rock or heavy metal, Black Sabbath’s debut album and its title
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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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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 – 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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Coven – Black Sabbath
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They journeyed far to Brocken Mountain pinnacle / A gathering of dread, an awesome spectacle / Each in his hand, a candle of black / Their faces grave, a deathlike mask / The
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Black Sabbath – Embryo
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[Instrumental]
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Black Sabbath – Into the Void
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Track #8 (originally the 4th track on side two) from Black Sabbath’s 3rd studio album from 1971, Master of Reality. This song tells about a man who flees from the earth in a
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Black Sabbath – Children of the Grave
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“Children of the Grave” is a song by Black Sabbath from their 1971 album Master of Reality. The lyrics are about the threat of a nuclear war, which was a very relevant topic during
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Black Sabbath – Trashed
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[Verse 1] / It really was a meeting / The bottle took a beating / The ladies of the manor / Watched me climb into my car and I was / Going down the track about a hundred and five
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Black Sabbath – Snowblind
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This song is about cocaine, “Snowblind” refers to being high on the drug. The members of Black Sabbath used a lot of cocaine during this period. They originally wanted the album to
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Black Sabbath – Cornucopia
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This song is about how people are easily deceived by wealth and materialistic desires. These people will eventually go insane because of prosperity. The cornucopia (horn of plenty
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Black Sabbath – Solitude
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Track #7 (originally the 3rd track on side two) from Black Sabbath’s 3rd studio album from 1971, Master of Reality. A delay effect was added to Ozzy Osbourne’s vocals on this song
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Black Sabbath – Behind the Wall of Sleep
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This song is based on H.P. Lovecraft’s short story Beyond the Wall of Sleep. The story is about an otherworldly entity trying to communicate through a dying inmate in a mental
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Black Sabbath – The Wizard
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Mr. Terrence “Geezer” Butler claims the track was partly inspired by Gandalf from Lord of the Rings.
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Thou – Black Sabbath
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[Verse 1] / What is this that stands before me? / Figure in black which points at me / Turn 'round quick and start to run / Find out I'm the chosen one / Oh, no! / [Instrumental
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Dayglo Abortions – Black Sabbath
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Acting like black sabbath is lots of fun / Their records sound so heavy when I turn them on / I jump up and down and pretend I'm them / I can almost make the change / Tony Iommi is
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Black Sabbath – Supernaut
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This song is about living life to the fullest and being all you can be. This theme was inspired by the infamously extensive drug usage of the band members at the time.
The title
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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 – Die Young
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“Die Young” talks about living life now, because no one knows if they will be alive tomorrow. Basically the meaning of ‘carpe diem.’ It was the album’s second single, which peaked
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Black Sabbath – Jerusalem
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The highway's screamin', callin' out your name / Cause every road that you travel on / There's a price to pay / A thousand eyes are starin' / But the blind still lead the blind
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Rotting Christ – Black Sabbath
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Witches gather at black masses / Bodies burning in red ashes / On the hill the church in ruin / Is the scene of evil doings / It's a place for all bad sinners / Watch them eating
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Black Sabbath – Gypsy
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[Verse 1] / Watching the universe at the end of another day / Fatalistic ships from a distant shore / In the back of my mind, I could see she was standing there / Like the feeling
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Black Sabbath – Walk Away
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This song is about seductive women who want to get into a relationship with you to have a child and will then leave you, which was more common in the late 70s. Dio warns you not to
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Black Sabbath – Lord of This World
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This song is the sixth track of Black Sabbath’s 3rd studio album Master of Reality from 1971. The lyrics are about how we live in a world where people do evil instead of love
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Black Sabbath – Loner
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[Verse 1] / He's just a loner, he never says hello / A friend to no one, he's got no place to go / He don't look happy, he looks through furtive eyes / He ain't got nothing, no one
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Black Sabbath – Killing Yourself to Live
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Another Geezer Butler lyric with an amazing opening riff from Tony Iommi. “Killing Yourself to Live” talks about the craziness and futility of the music industry, just like the
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Black Sabbath – Evil Woman
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This song is a cover, originally performed by the band Crow on the 1969 album Crow Music. The lyrics are about a cheating girlfriend or wife. Guitarist Tony Iommi has said the band
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Black Sabbath – Zeitgeist
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“Zeitgeist” is the most mellow track from Black Sabbath’s 13. Critics have compared its processed vocals, spacey motif and Django Reinhardt-influenced soloing to that of “Planet
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Black Sabbath – Shock Wave
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[Verse 1] / There's no reason for you to run / You can't escape the fate of the chosen one / Black moon rising, in a blood red sky / This time you realise that you're gonna die
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Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath - Basement Tape
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A demo version of “Black Sabbath,” performed in 1970 and released in 1997. The demo version contains an additional third verse. The bass and guitar are tuned down a whole step
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