Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is the fifth studio album by the British heavy metal band Black Sabbath, released in 1973. With this album, the band expanded upon their slow, crunching style of music but incorporated progressive rock elements such as synthesizers, strings, keyboards and more complex, orchestral arrangements. Building off the stylistic changes introduced on Volume 4, new songs incorporated synthesizers, strings, keyboards and more complex arrangements. "Who Are You?" incorporates a Moog, a common instrument in progressive rock at the time. Lyrics of some songs on the album were written about problems within the band at the time. "Killing Yourself Read Full BioSabbath Bloody Sabbath is the fifth studio album by the British heavy metal band Black Sabbath, released in 1973. With this album, the band expanded upon their slow, crunching style of music but incorporated progressive rock elements such as synthesizers, strings, keyboards and more complex, orchestral arrangements.
Building off the stylistic changes introduced on Volume 4, new songs incorporated synthesizers, strings, keyboards and more complex arrangements. "Who Are You?" incorporates a Moog, a common instrument in progressive rock at the time. Lyrics of some songs on the album were written about problems within the band at the time.
"Killing Yourself to Live" was written by bassist Geezer Butler while in hospital for kidney problems caused by heavy drinking. Drummer Bill Ward was also suffering from binge drinking, and the song reflects the problems caused by their "extreme" lifestyles. An earlier incarnation of the song can be heard on the records Live at Last and Past Lives.
Building off the stylistic changes introduced on Volume 4, new songs incorporated synthesizers, strings, keyboards and more complex arrangements. "Who Are You?" incorporates a Moog, a common instrument in progressive rock at the time. Lyrics of some songs on the album were written about problems within the band at the time.
"Killing Yourself to Live" was written by bassist Geezer Butler while in hospital for kidney problems caused by heavy drinking. Drummer Bill Ward was also suffering from binge drinking, and the song reflects the problems caused by their "extreme" lifestyles. An earlier incarnation of the song can be heard on the records Live at Last and Past Lives.
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Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Black Sabbath Lyrics
You've seen life through distorted eyes
You know you had to learn
The execution of your mind
You really had to turn
The race is run the book is read
The end begins to show
The truth is out, the lies are old
But you don't want to know
Nobody will ever let you know
When you ask the reasons why
They just tell you that you're on your own
Fill your head all full of lies
The people who have crippled you
You want to see them burn
The gates of life have closed on you
And now there's just no return
You're wishing that the hands of doom
Could take your mind away
And you don't care if you don't see again
The light of day
Nobody will ever let you know
When you ask the reasons why
They just tell you that you're on your own
Fill your head all full of lies
You bastards
Where can you run to
What more can you do
No more tomorrow
Life is killing you
Dreams turn to nightmares
Heaven turns to hell
Burned out confusion
Nothing more to tell, yeah
Everything around you
What's it coming to
God knows as your dog knows
Bog blast all of you
Sabbath bloody Sabbath
Nothing more to do
Living just for dying
Dying just for you, yeah
Lyrics © Onward Music Limited
Written by: JOHN OSBOURNE, TERENCE BUTLER, TONY IOMMI, W.T. WARD
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Richard Estrada C.
You've seen life through distorted eyes
You know you have to learn
The execution of your mind
You really had to turn
The race is run, the book is read
The end begins to show
The truth is out, the lies are old
But you don't want to know
[Chorus]
Nobody will ever let you know
When you ask the reasons why
They just tell you that you're on your own
Fill your head all full of lies
[Verse 2]
The people who have crippled you
You want to see them burn
The gates of life have closed on you
An' there's just no return
You’re wishing that the hands of doom
Could take your mind away
An' you don't care if you don’t see
Again the light of day
[Chorus]
Nobody will ever let you know
When you ask the reasons why
They just tell you that you're on your own
Fill your head all full of lies
You bastards!
[Instrumental Bridge]
[Outro]
Where can you run to
What more can you do
No more tomorrow
Life is killing you
Dreams turn to nightmares
Heaven turns to hell
Burned out confusion
Nothing more to tell, yeah
Everything around you
What's it coming to
God knows as your dog nose
Bog blast all of you
Sabbath, bloody sabbath
Nothing more to do
Living just for dying
Dying just for you, yeah
Eternal Death
It blows my mind that these dudes were dropping the heaviest metal in the early 70s
Roy Flynn
@Bronson Espinoza I love God too.
Adolph Cervati
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Scud the Disposable assasin
That's not the only fucking thing they were dropping
D Mitchell
And the fact black Sabbath happened,god bless them,we are all people
D Mitchell
This is amazing,but they've done better work
Rob Walsh
"Nobody will ever let you know
When you ask the reasons why
They just tell you that you're on your own
Fill your head all full of lies"
Sabbath's heaviness wasn't just their instrumental skill. People connected with their lyrics.
Bill Baurle
Ozzy's singing was and is a MAJOR factor in the success of Black fucking Sabbath.
Oh Cock
That part is so fukken genius - and something so many of us have experienced ♥
Smae as with punkrock/progg, people should have listened more what they said than get upset by their looks, amen.
erismaize
"You bastards!!!!"