Spiral Architect Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Denzil 

Cover art for Spiral Architect lyrics by Black Sabbath

Also, just to actually add something constructive, I've always figured this to be God's view on the world.

God created everything, he was the original spiral architect (assuming the "Spirals" are indeed DNA)

Even though the world has changed a lot ("Watching eyes of celluloid", "Fictional seduction on a black snow sky."

Apparantly our only hope is love: "Laughter, kissing, love is showing me the way,"

This kind of message happens a lot in Sabbath songs. (A National Acrobat, Symptom of the Universe etc.)

They were all just hippies really ;)

@Denzil And, to expand on that, as our Sun travels through the Galaxy, the Earth follows in a spiral trajectory. Sabbath is DEEP! Whether they know it, or not. The spiral of DNA of humans was proven in 1962 so, Sabbath would've had this knowledge at the time of the writing. I recall a LIFE magazine cover in the 60's of the Helix. It's interesting that blokes in the 60's had to present their belief in our Creator, carefully, as to not upset the Darwinists of their generation, lest they be ridiculed. Imagine a...