| The Moody Blues – One More Time To Live Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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@[BDoug52:49805] Let's not confuse the sound of a band with the lyrical message of a band; the two are not mutually exclusive. Let's also not conflate right-wing fundamentalism with Christianity, which comprises a wide array of beliefs and practices, most of which are not the narrow-minded, judgmental variety espoused by extreme evangelicals. As with Black Sabbath, Kansas, Judas Priest, the Moody Blues, and others, these were not "Christian Rock" bands per se, but rock bands that occasionally wrote lyrics with Christian themes. |
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| Black Sabbath – Over To You Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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Hey @[Mezmaron:28898], I'm the author of the series Black Sabbath: The Illustrated Lyrics. With the help of the copyright holder (who had many surprisingly incorrect lyrics themselves), I manage to get about 95% of the correct lyrics for the band's eight albums. "Tears burned of sadness" is what I got, as well! The unicorn line is also partly correct, as it's relating to Catholic imagery. The line reads: "Seventh Advent Unicorn is waiting in the sky," which is a reference to Christ. The lyric in "Never Say Die," which had troubled me also, was confirmed by Geezer: "Snow white parasite, partners in crime." In other words, the people who get taken for a ride are, in many respects, just as culpable for the deception they fall prey to as those who prey on them. They have a facade of innocence, which is why they're depicted as "snow white," but they're not interested in the truth (which they already know inside) and are parasitically seeking out and clinging to anyone or thing that will distract them and provide easy answers. Thanks for writing and hope those help! |
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| Black Sabbath – Over To You Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[thesithempire:20697] Better late than never! :) I'll have the lyrics 100% correct by the time Black Sabbath: The Illustrated Lyrics Vol 8 comes out in a few years. | |
| The Moody Blues – One More Time To Live Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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That's absurd considering most of the band were Christian -- and particularly John Lodge who wrote this song. Look again at the lyric and think: Who are felling trees and turning the earth to sand? Who is polluting and promoting a single ideology (hint: Capitalism, Fascism, Communism) to the detriment of all others? Government and it's corporate allies. The riches that the narrator has is love, which he elevates as the spiritual ideal of salvation. |
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| Black Sabbath – Hole In The Sky Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I agree with most of this, but I'm not sure I understand what you mean by your interpretation of "stars that disappear in the sun," and how you think that fits in with the rest of the lyric. I'd be curious to hear your further thoughts. Additionally, do we know that the lyric is "cards"? While I agree it makes some kind of sense, the line sounds like "cars." Some have suggested "cause," but "I don't believe there's any future in cause" doesn't make sense to me. If he'd said "causes," that would be different. The line about "cars" can be a reference to the dogs of war (fighting over oil) and the Western world. |
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| Black Sabbath – Hole In The Sky Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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With respect to your opinion Durandal1717, the Bible is more accredited by ancient manuscripts than any other ancient source, including ones we've taken for granted as historical, and as the Dead Sea Scrolls demonstrates, it went virtually unchanged for a thousand and more years. That aside, there's no report of manna causing hallucinations or the kind of behavior/visions generally associated with entheogens. In fact, if you carefully read the accounts, manna was provided as physical food for the struggling Israelites on their exodus out of Egypt. And they grumbled about it repeatedly, demanding that meat be provided instead. To address your point about Horus, the Israelites knew him well from their oppressive masters. Yahweh is nothing like Horus in character, temperament or personality. Nor is he like Baal, or any other pagan god, for that matter. I say this without intending to cause offense, but the argument that claims the Israelites simply renamed a pagan god is somewhat hollow, as it reveals a lack of understanding or familiarity with the Hebrew texts. Finally, I don't believe that Black Sabbath were transcribing their experiences with drugs into songs. True, they openly write of drugs (good and bad, and mostly the latter) in several songs, but to say that the majority of their work is a description of drug trips is to cast Geezer Butler into a straitjacket that takes away his creativity, originality and ability to say something beyond a single topic. And my familiarity with their lyrics tells me that such a view is something I can't subscribe to. Black Sabbath's songs of social-criticism, anti-authoritarianism, lament, spirituality, etc., can't be reduced to drug-trips. |
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| Metallica – Creeping Death Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| xxWings: James might hate the denomination "Christian Scientists," that doesn't mean he hates Christianity. The song, "The God that Failed" is about Christian Scientist's beliefs, particularly on the aspect of medical treatment, which they eschew. | |
| Judas Priest – Tyrant Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Black Sabath: How do you know?! Judas Priest wrote several biblical-based songs, as did Sabbath (which you should know). Unless you're Rob Halford, it seems a little ignorant -- and might I add, tyrannical -- to jump down this guy's throat as if you hold the key to some definitive answer. The song could easily be a metaphor for Satan's control over mankind, just as "Lord of this World" was. |
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| Black Sabbath – Electric Funeral Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Hey mandhat57, I'm working on getting just that, and this section is one of the more difficult to get the correct lyrics on. But by next year, the definitive lyrics should be released in the book, "Black Sabbath: The Illustrated Lyrics: Behind the Wall of Sleep." (www.blacksabbathlyrics.net) As far as I know, the lyrics in that section are as follows: Buildings crashing down, To Earth's cracking ground; Rivers turn to wood. Ice melts into blood. Earth lies in death-bed. Clouds cry for the dead. Terrifying rain, Ease the burning pain. The only issue I have is that "rivers turn to wood" doesn't make any sense, and yet you can clearly hear Ozzy sing "wood". And I wouldn't be surprised if Butler's original lyric was "rivers turn to mud", which Ozzy accidentally flubbed on. But I have no confirmation of that as yet. |
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| Black Sabbath – Hole In The Sky Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| The narrator's life may come to an abrupt end, but actually, something does come immediately after it. The instrumental interlude "Don't start (too late)," which leads directly into Symptom of the Universe, which is a song about divine love for mankind. | |
| Black Sabbath – Spiral Architect Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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That's exactly how I view it as well. And yet I think the lyrics are intended with a dual meaning as there are most likely two narrators: 1a) The omniscient POV of a TV watcher throughout the three verses. 1b) The singer of the first two choruses, who's likely be the same as the TV watcher above. 3) God, who's given the final chorus. Despite the reflection of life portrayed on TV, and all the variety of images (negative, positive, etc.), life is still good to the viewer because of who he is and what his memories consist of. |
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| Black Sabbath – Spiral Architect Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I have to respectfully disagree. Sabbath wasn't in need of saving. 8 albums of pure bliss. Then Sabbath went to rest and Black Rainbow or Heaven and Hell came into existence. The Dio years were great, but it wasn't Black Sabbath. Geezer Butler himself admits that. It's a different entity. The songs were composed differently. The lyrics were composed by a different person. It was a different band with a different sound. |
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| Black Sabbath – Shock Wave Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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LOL! "Drinking your blood brew"!! You gotta love it. Now here's the correct version: 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 realize that you're gonna die. Freezing your body is your answer. That's what you plan to do. Floating in time you cheat death’s master. You're on your own going through… When darkness has taken over your mind, And you think you're on your own, Don't believe you are the only one here. Look around; you're not alone. Feel the forces from another world. Ghostly shadows fill your mind. Evil power hanging over you, As you freeze your life in time. Look behind you! Somebody's calling. Someone is near. Feel yourself falling. Crawling with fear. You tell yourself you're dreaming. You realize you're screaming. You know that this shouldn't happen to you. You tell yourself that it just can’t be true. But there is nothing you can do, oh! Ghostly shadows from the other world, Evil forces in your mind. Trapped between the walls of life and death, Frozen in the realms of time. Look behind you! You feel yourself falling; you're at the end of the line. Your body is calling, but your senses are blind. Cool, cool feelings are running through your brains. Ice cold fingers, flowing through your vein… |
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| Black Sabbath – Hand Of Doom Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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On the lyrics themselves, the last line is written here as "Price of life you cry, now you're gonna die!" But it doesn't sound like that and that doesn't make sense. Ozzy seems to say "Price of life you hide"... But that doesn't make much sense either... Thoughts? |
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| Black Sabbath – Electric Funeral Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Those seem correct, except for one passage: Buildings crashing down to Earth's (cracking or tragic) ground. And it really does sound like Ozzy's singing: "Rivers turn to wood". But how in earth does that make ANY sense?! Wood?! Mud, yes. That makes sense, but he's clearly using a "w" at the start of that word. Even in the 1978 live concert, it sounds like wood. Any insights? |
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| Black Sabbath – Over To You Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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These lyrics are very wrong. Not that the following is a 100% either, but it's much closer: Born in a window Nobody’s fool Raised in a prison You called a school Taught your religion Told what to do I handed my childhood Over to you Traveling endlessly, I'm searching my mind I'm almost afraid of what I will find Wandering aimlessly, oh what can I do? I handed my future over to you Over to you Future looks blue What can I do? Working for freedom Fighting your wars Feeding your children Keeping your laws Someday you'll suffer And what I'll do I'll hand all your promises Over to you Standing inside myself, I'm losing control You made me believe in the stories you told Waiting impatiently, what else can I do? I handed my future over to you, to you Over to you Future looks blue What can I do? Tears full of sadness (?) Sealed in their cell Whispering secrets What do they tell? Mad politicians Can’t tell it true I handed my children Over to you All over, over to you All over, over to you All over, over to you... |
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| Black Sabbath – Hole In The Sky Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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To say Christianity evolved from mushrooms is wrong on so many levels, historically and otherwise. Christianity evolved out of Judaism, which emerged on the scene with the offspring of Abraham and their exodus from Israel under Moses' leadership. Neither the Jews nor Christians have any record of ever taking drugs, no, not plant-based ones either. The Bible urged the nation of Israel to keep shun the practices of the surrounding nations. And in fact, alcohol is restricted to moderate intake. Judeo-Christian thought is focused on self-control, rationale behavior and self-sacrificing love, a marked contrast to the surrounding nations which engaged in licentious, degrading behavior, oftentimes as a result of drugs and excess alcohol. |
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| Black Sabbath – After Forever Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Geezer Butler wrote these lyrics, as he did about 95% of the songs, and it does reflect his beliefs at the time. Several Sabbath songs take a pro-biblical stance against war, materialism and greed--which are linked to Satanism (in songs like War Pigs, Lord of this World and Into the Void). "Under the Sun" isn't an attack on God, but rather an attack on religious hypocrites (particularly in the US where they first encountered them) who kept saying the band were evil and telling them they were going to Hell. Butler found that to be an extremely un-Christian stance for so-called Christians to take. And he was also surprised to find that when he did speak to some of them, he knew the Bible better they did. Hence the lines: "I don't want no Jesus freak to tell me what it's all about" (which he adds, in case there's any confusion, "no black magician telling me to cut my soul out"). Then "I don't want no preacher telling me about the God in the sky; no, I don't want no one to tell me where I'm gonna go when I die." That's a stance born of frustration against people refusing to stop judging or to see what was obvious from the lyrics. The irony, after Sabbath printed the lyrics to After Forever on the back of the album, was that neither the Satanists, nor the religious community paid one of iota of attention, and continued to believe they were a force of evil. And many of the fans haven't helped either. |
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| Black Sabbath – Megalomania Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Sabbra21, you helped figure out the one line that I could not get. Here are the complete accurate lyrics to the song: I hide, I hide, I hide, I hide, I hide, I hide, I hide, I hide myself inside the shadows of shame. The silent symphonies were playing their game. My body echoed to the dreams of my soul. It started something that I could not control. Where can I run to now? The joke is on me. No sympathizing God it’s insanity, yeah! Why don't ya just get out of my life, yeah! Why don't ya just get out of my life now? Why doesn't everybody leave me alone now? Why doesn't everybody leave me alone, yeah! Obsessed, Obsessed, Obsessed, Obsessed, Obsessed, Obsessed, Obsessed, Obsessed with fantasy, possessed with my schemes, I mixed reality with pseudo-god dreams. The ghost of violence was something I'd seen. I sold my soul to be the human obscene. How could this poison be the dream of my soul? How did my fantasies take complete control? Yeah! Why don't ya just get out of my life? Yeah! Why don't ya just get out of my life now? Why doesn't everybody leave me alone now? Why doesn't everybody leave me alone? Yeah! Well I feel something's taking me, I don't know where. It's like a trip inside a separate mind. The ghost of tomorrow from my favorite dream, Is telling me to leave it all behind; Feel it slipping away, slipping in tomorrow. Got to get to happiness, want no more of sorrow. How I lied, went to hide. How I tried to get away from you now. Am I right if I fight, That I might just get away from you now? Sting Me! Well I feel something's giving me the chance to return. It's giving me the chance of saving my soul. Beating my demigod, I'm fading away. I'm going backwards where I'm in control. Feel it slipping away, slipping in tomorrow. Getting back to sanity from the depths of sorrow. Was it wise to disguise, How I tried to get away from you now? Is there a way that I could pay? Or is it true I have to stay with you now? How I lied, went to hide, How I tried to get away from you now. Am I right if I fight, That I might just get away from you now? Suck Me! I’ve been the king of schizophrenia, the messed up, the ill. I've chased my soul in the fires of hell. Peace of mind eluded me, but now it's all mine. I set the trap, but it was me who fell. Feel it slipping away, slipping in tomorrow. Now I've found my happiness, from the depths of sorrow. No more lies, I got wise. I despise the way I worshipped you, yeah! Now I'm free, can't you see? And now instead I won't be led by you now. Free! The song does have to do with megalomania, though in the context of someone suffering from mental illness. The "god" that he worshipped and is trying to get away from is himself. Great stuff! Geezer really is an underrated lyricist. |
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