Well I know
I could be just another stranger
But to you
I guess I'm just another fool

And you swear
You like to live your life in danger
Then you hide
Behind a wall of silly rules

Nobody thinks the way I do
I guess that nobody cares
Your head's so full of things
So set your mind free of them
I'm breaking the rules

Did you know?
That in the truth there's nothing stranger
I suppose
You think, I think I know it all

Nobody hears the things I say
I guess that nobody cares
My head's so full of things
I set my mind free of them
I'm breaking the rules

Breakin' all the rules
Can't you see they're nothing without you?
Empty heads full of fools
Now you see I'm breaking all the rules
Breakin' all the rules

Well I know
That you would love to go to Heaven
But you know
That you're just too afraid to die

And I know
That you would love to know the answers
But to you
The truth is just another lie

Nobody hears the things I say
I guess that nobody cares
My head's so full of things
I set my mind free of them
I'm breaking the rules

Breakin' all the rules
Can't you see they're nothing without you?
Empty heads full of fools
Now you see I'm breaking all the rules
Breakin' all the rules

Breakin' all the rules
(Why don't you tell to them?)
Breakin' all the rules
(Now come on, now come on)

Breakin' all the rules
(Why don't you get it on?)
Breakin' all the rules
(Now come on, now come on)

Breakin' all the rules
(All right)
Breakin' all the rules
(Now come on, now come on)

Breakin' all the rules
(All right now)
Breakin' all the rules
([Incomprehensible])

Breakin' all the rules
(Now come on, now come on)
Breakin' all the rules
(Now let me tell you now)

Breakin' all the rules
(Let's go all crazy)
Breakin' all the rules
(Now come on, now come on)
Yeah!


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Breaking All The Rules Lyrics as written by John Terence Sinclair John Osbourne

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    Sounds like a song about people who talk the talk because they think thats what people wanna hear, but they're too chicken or too weak to walk the walk to actually back it up. Sort of like living your life like you think society or certain people think you should live your life, even though its not really how you wanna be living. Anyone else?

    And yeah this tune and whole ALBUM kicks ass - why does Ozzy NEVER play anything off of it??? I saw him on the No More Tears Tour which was the album after this one -No Rest For The Wicked, and even back then he played Miracle Man and that was it. Since then he doesnt even do that. No Rest For The Wicked is as good and personally to me better than No More Tears, which is a close second. But that one had all the ballads and shit on it so that gets all the play and kudos. Anyways... I'm blabbing now... sorry

    Justintimeon August 11, 2006   Link
  • +1
    General Comment

    Normal teenage rebellion. Trying to be an individual. He wants to feel special. He looks at the risks other people take, and see's the way they lie and then uses that as something to feel "different" about. And then he wants to "break the rules" and be like them. Because he thinks it's cos he's conforming too much, and that's his problem.

    Like I said earlier, typical teenage rebellion. He's not special. He's just another rebel.

    playwithmeon June 11, 2010   Link
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    General Comment

    WHAT?? ITS JUST OZZY BEING OZZY! HE'S JUST A ROCK N' ROLL REBEL RIGHT?

    bluezmuzakon March 24, 2006   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    this song fuckin kicks ass !!

    ac/dc_fanon July 28, 2006   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    i think he kinda directed it at tony iommi and the situations with him.

    flaminmofoon January 24, 2009   Link

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