When this song came out, I would put on the record or cassette and ask people to listen and guess who the singer was. Very few people guessed Ozzy, but it was fun hear what people would guess. I would never play this game with real Ozzy or Black Sabbath fans.
This song is about vying for a women;s love only to come in second place. In some respects this is worse than an unrequited love in that the forlorn lover knows what he is missing and it hurts. I was 18 when this song came out and my takeaway was that EVERYONE is susceptible to heartbreak; even the Prince of Darkness. Not an big insight to me know at the age of 50, but a decent warning to me as a teenager.
When this song came out, I would put on the record or cassette and ask people to listen and guess who the singer was. Very few people guessed Ozzy, but it was fun hear what people would guess. I would never play this game with real Ozzy or Black Sabbath fans.
This song is about vying for a women;s love only to come in second place. In some respects this is worse than an unrequited love in that the forlorn lover knows what he is missing and it hurts. I was 18 when this song came out and my takeaway was that EVERYONE is susceptible to heartbreak; even the Prince of Darkness. Not an big insight to me know at the age of 50, but a decent warning to me as a teenager.