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Original CD |
1996 Remaster |
2004 Remaster |
2001 Vinyl |
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Notes
- One some pressings of the viynl/cassette (and the remaster CD), there's a short 23 second song after The Writ
(recorded at very low volume) called "Blow on a Jug". It's
usually tacked onto The Writ, and isn't a track on it's own.
It was Ozzy & Bill Ward goofing around in the studio.
- The "Radio" in Am I
Going Insane? (Radio) doesn't mean there's a different radio version of the
song - this is the only one.
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NOTE: These lyrics are verified
against the lyrics that appear in the "Black Box"
booklet. Those lyrics were gone over by Geezer Butler (who wrote most of
them anyway) for that set, and for that reason should be considered
definitive.
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Megalomania
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, its insanity yeah
Why don't you just get out of my life, yeah
Why don't you just get out of my life, now
Why doesn't everybody leave me alone, now
Why doesn't everybody leave me alone, yeah
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 you just get out of my life, yeah?
Why don't you 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
Realized when to hide
How I tried to get away from you now
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
Pictures of demigod are fading away
I'm going backwards but I'm in control
Feel it slipping away, slipping in tomorrow
Getting back to sanity, providence 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 in my fight?
That I might just get away from you now
Suck me!
I'm really digging schizophrenia, the best of the earth
I've chase my soul in the fires of hell
Peace of mind eluded me but now it's all mine
I simply try but he wants me to fail
Feel it slipping away, slipping in tomorrow
Now I've found my happiness, providence of sorrow
No more lies, I got wise
I despise the way I worshipped you yeah
Now I'm free let me see
That now instead, I won't be led by you now
Free!
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The Writ
The way I feel is the way I am
I wish I'd walked before I started to run to you
Just to you
What kind of people do you think we are?
Another joker who's a rock and roll star for you
Just for you
The faithful image of another man
The endless ocean of emotion I swam for you
Yeah, for you
The shock troopers laying down on the floor
I wish they'd fallen into my private war with you
Yeah, with you
Are you metal, are you man
You've changed a lot since you began
Yeah, began
Ladies digging gold from you
Will they still dig now you're through
Yeah you're through
You bought and sold me with your lying words
The voices in the dark that you never heard came true
Yeah came true
Your fallen phallic god dismembered and gone
A poison father with his poisonous son, that's you
Yeah, that's you
I beg you please don't let it get any worse
The anger I once had has turned to a curse on you
Yeah, curse you
All of the promises that never came true
You're gonna get what is coming to you, that's true
Ah, that's true
Are you Satan are you man
You've changed in life since it began
It began
Vultures sucking gold from you
Will they still suck now you're through
(Cats, Rats)
The search is on so you just better run
And find yourself another way
Rob the dead, they don't feel a thing
Leave the living for another day
(Rats, Rat)
You are nonentity, you have no destiny
You are a figment of a thing unknown
A mental picture of a stolen soul
The fornication of your golden throne
A smiling face it means the world to me
So tired of sadness and of misery
My life it started some time ago
Where it will end, I don't know
I thought I was so good
I thought I was so smart
I feel my world is torn apart
But everything is gonna work out fine
If it don't, I think I'll lose my mind
I know, I know, I know, yeah yeah I know
Listen to me while I sing this song
You might just think the words are wrong
Too many people advising me
But they don't know what my eyes see
But everything is gonna work out fine
If it don't I'm gonna blow my mind
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