This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
From memories of 68 when the wizard shook the world
Metal came from foundries where the midlands sound unfurled
The bullring was a lonely place of concrete towers and steel
The coal mines and the industries were all I had to fell.
Something inside took hold of me, I really didn't know
But overtime it came to be, I knew which way to go
I drove around in search of what would make this all come true
From jazz and electricity and good old southern blues
Hell, we're born to raise some hell
Hell, we're gonna raise some hell
In Henry's and in mother's where I'd go to bang my head
The feeling took a hold of me with every word I said
The voice was born and came alive from all I saw and heard
And now I knew my destiny, I had to spread the word.
I took the scream around the world
From London to L.A.
Unleashed in downtown Tokyo
Blew Godzilla away
Then on the sound and fury went from Sydney to Brazil
It sent the Russians crazy cause they never get their fill.
Of Hell, we're born to raise some hell
Hell, we're gonna raise some hell
Hell, we're born to raise some hell
Hell, we're gonna raise some hell
The stage and the lights and the amps are ablaze watch them burn
From all this insanity the Metal God's will return.
Shock waves attack relentlessly, intimidating force
So many bands surrounding you with evil from our source
It screams across the universe and slams you to the floor
This blitzkrieg psycho mania is coming on full roar
The world's a stage that's waiting for its bad ass to get kicked
And we're all on the road to hell and that's route 666
Hell, we're born to raise some hell
Hell, we're gonna raise some hell
Hell, we're born to raise some hell
Hell, we're gonna raise some hell
Metal came from foundries where the midlands sound unfurled
The bullring was a lonely place of concrete towers and steel
The coal mines and the industries were all I had to fell.
Something inside took hold of me, I really didn't know
But overtime it came to be, I knew which way to go
I drove around in search of what would make this all come true
From jazz and electricity and good old southern blues
Hell, we're born to raise some hell
Hell, we're gonna raise some hell
In Henry's and in mother's where I'd go to bang my head
The feeling took a hold of me with every word I said
The voice was born and came alive from all I saw and heard
And now I knew my destiny, I had to spread the word.
I took the scream around the world
From London to L.A.
Unleashed in downtown Tokyo
Blew Godzilla away
Then on the sound and fury went from Sydney to Brazil
It sent the Russians crazy cause they never get their fill.
Of Hell, we're born to raise some hell
Hell, we're gonna raise some hell
Hell, we're born to raise some hell
Hell, we're gonna raise some hell
The stage and the lights and the amps are ablaze watch them burn
From all this insanity the Metal God's will return.
Shock waves attack relentlessly, intimidating force
So many bands surrounding you with evil from our source
It screams across the universe and slams you to the floor
This blitzkrieg psycho mania is coming on full roar
The world's a stage that's waiting for its bad ass to get kicked
And we're all on the road to hell and that's route 666
Hell, we're born to raise some hell
Hell, we're gonna raise some hell
Hell, we're born to raise some hell
Hell, we're gonna raise some hell
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Black Sabbath was born in 68 and the wizard is a song from their first album. It can't be a different thing as this songs talks about metal.
"From all this insanity the Metal God's will return."
Do you think this predicted the Priest reunion?
Any idea who The Wizard refers to? Black Sabbath?
at first i thought by "The wizard" he meant pinball wizard, it was released 1969 though, not in '68. Why? i just thought that may've been an influence you know "In memories of 68 when the wizard shook the world" and @zuqhiaq i'll bet you're right, through that whole album odd little Judas Priest references seem to be thrown in.
This song is about the birth of metal music and Rob's experiences growing up in Birmingham, becoming a musician and singing with Judas Priest and around the world.
'The Wizard' is most definitely a Black Sabbath reference.
Most of you are correct in regards to what this song is about. The Wizard is indeed referring to the song by Black Sabbath, the band that Mr. Halford considers the first true heavy metal band. Rob covered this song when he was with a band called the Bullring Brummies.
Don't know how anyone would get the idea that "The Wizard" in the lyrics is relating to Jimi Hendrix, but if you'd like to see Priest lyrics that do indeed relate to Mr. Hendrix, you will find them in a song called Heroes End from the album Stained Class, the best heavy metal album ever made to this day. The first part of this particular song is about Janis Joplin, the middle part is about Hendrix, and the last part is about James Dean. The song as a whole deals with the sad reality of famous and talented people who die at a very young age and become legends as a result of their deaths. Made in Hell is the first song I have ever commented about, and I am about to head over to the Heroes End lyrics to throw my two cents in over there. This is fun and quite metally indeed! All hail The Metal God! :-)
The "Wizard" is referring to Jimi Hendrix.
This song is about Rob Halford's inspirations and how he developed his trademark voice and took it across the world touring for Judas Priest, Fight, and Halford.