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Black Sabbath – Heaven And Hell Lyrics 18 years ago
I think this song is about religion and how it tells us what is good and what is not, but in the end nothing is black/white, heaven/hell, good/evil as religion tries to teach us.

"Sing me a song, you're a singer
Do me a wrong, you're a bringer of evil" - religions tend to divide peolpe into categories = do a good action and you get the eternal life, do someone a wrong and you're damned.

"The closer you get to the meaning
The sooner you'll know that you're dreaming" - religious teachings are full of contradictions and are impossible to understand

Meaning becomes more clear when it refers to someone in particular "They say life is a carousel... they'll tell you black is really white". "They " stands for the church, or religion in general.


Songs like this or children of the sea are why dio is an awesome lyricist.

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