Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody SabbathSabbath Bloody Sabbath

Released: December, 1973
1 Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (5:42)
2 A National Acrobat (6:16)
3 Fluff (4:10)
4 Sabbra Cadabra (5:55)
5 Killing Yourself to Live (5:40)
6 Who Are You? (4:10)
7 Looking for Today (4:59)
8 Spiral Architect (5:29)


Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (5:42)
You see right 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 wanna see them burn.
The gates of life have closed on you and 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.
Burns out confusion, nothing more to tell.
Yeah.
Ev'rything around you, what's it coming to?
God knows as your dog knows; (bog/god) blast all of you.
Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath, nothing more to do.
Living just for dying, dying just for you
Yeah.
A National Acrobat (6:16)
I am the world that hides the universal secret of all time.
Destruction of the empty spaces is my one and only crime.
I've lived a thousand times, I found out what it means to be believe.
The thoughts and images, the unborn child that never was conceived.
When little worlds collide I'm trapped inside my embryonic cell.
And flashing memories are cast into the never ending well-hell.
The name that scorns the face, the child that never sees the cause of man.
The deathly darkness that belies the fate of those who never ran.
You gotta believe me,
I'm talking to you.
Well, I know its hard for you to know the reason why.
And I know you'll understand more when it's time to die.
Don't believe the life you have will be the only one.
You have to let your body sleep to let your soul live on.
I want you to listen,
I'm try'n' ta get through.
Love has given life to you and now it's your concern.
Unseen eye of inner light will make your soul return.
Still I look but not to touch the seeds of life are sown.
Curtain of the future falls, the secret stays unknown.
Just remember love is life, and hate is living death.
Treat your life for what it's worth and live for ev'ry breath.
Looking back I've lived and learned, But (lc)still (rc)now I'm wondering.
Here I wait and only guess what this next life will bring.
Ha Ha!
Fluff (4:10)
Instrumental
Sabbra Cadabra (5:55)
Feel so good I feel so fine,
Love that little lady always on my mind
She gives me lovin' ev'ry night and day
Never gonna leave her, never goin' away
Someone to love me,
You know she makes me feel all right
Someone to need me,
Love me ev'ry single night
Feel so happy since I met that girl,
When we're making love
it's something out of this world
Feels so good to know that she's all mine
Going to love that woman 'till the end of time
Someone to live for,
Love me 'till the end of time
Makes me feel happy,
Good to know that she's all mine
Lovely lady, make love all night long
Ooh Lovely lady, never do me wrong
Ahh, I don't wanna leave you,
I never wanna leave you, anymore, no more
Lovely lady, mystifying eyes
Lovely lady, she don't tell me no lies
I know I'll never leave you
I'm never gonna leave you, anymore
I said no more, I said no more, ooh alright yeah
All right now yeah! No more yeah
I said ya don't want me no more,
I said you don't want me no more,
I said no more, ooh yeah
Come on now baby
Ha ha ha ha
ha ha haa
ha ho ho heh heh heh
ha ha ha ha
ah ha ha ha, ha heh ah ha ha ha ah ha ha ha ha
hea ah haa ha ha ahh
Killing Yourself to Live (5:40)
Well, people look and people stare
Well, I don't think that I even care
You work your life away and what do they give?
You're only killing yourself to live.
Killing yourself to live.
Killing yourself to live.
Just take a look around you what do you see?
Pain, suffering and misery.
It's not the way that the world was (planned/meant).
It's a pity you don't understand.
Killing yourself to live.
Killing yourself to live.
I'm telling you believe in me,
Nobody else will tell you
Open your eyes and see the lies, oh yeah
Smoke it - get high!
You think that I'm crazy and baby I know that it's true
Before that you know it I think that you'll go crazy too
I don't know if I'm up or down,
Whether black is white or blue is brown,
The colors of my life are all different somehow
Little boy blue's a big (gun/girl) now
So you think it's me who's strange,
But you've never had to make the (chain/change)
Never give your trust away,
You'll end up paying 'till your dying day
Who Are You? (4:10)
Yes, I know the secret that's within your mind.
You think all the people who worship you are blind.
You're just like big brother giving us your trust
And when you have played enough you'll just cast our souls
Into the dust,
Into the dust.
You thought that it would be easy from the very start.
Now I've found you out I don't think you're so smart.
I only have one more question before my time is through
Please I beg you tell me in the name of hell
Who are you?
Who are you?
You thought that it would be easy from the very start
Now I've found you out I don't think you're so smart
I only have one more question before my time is through
Please I beg you tell me in the name of hell
Who are you?
Who are you?
Looking for Today (4:59)
It's complete but obsolete,
All tomorrows become yesterday.
In demand but second hand,
It's been heard before you even play, yeah.
Up to date but came too late,
Better get yourself another name.
You're so right but overnight,
You're the one who has to take the blame, yeah.
Ev'ryone just gets on top of you.
The pain begins to eat your pride.
You can't believe in anything you knew.
When was the last time that you cried?
Yea, yeah.
Don't delay you're in today
But tomorrow is another dream.
Sunday's star is Monday's scar,
Out of date before you're even seen, yeah.
At the top so quick to flop,
You're so new but rotting in decay.
Like butterfly so quick to die,
But you're only looking for today, yeah.
Ev'ryone just gets on top of you.
The pain begins to eat your pride.
You can't believe in anything you knew.
When was the last time that you cried?
Yea, yeah.
Looking for today,
Looking for today,
Looking for today,
Looking for today,
Looking for today.
Listen!
Glamour trip so soon to slip,
Easy come but oh how quick it goes.
Ten foot tall but what a fall,
Hard to open yet so easy to close, yeah.
Front page news but so abused,
You just want to hide yourself away.
Over-paid, but soon you fade
Because you're only looking for today, Yeah.
Looking for today, looking for today,
Looking for today, looking for today,
Looking for today, looking for today,
Looking for today, looking for today,
Looking for today, looking for today,
Looking for today, looking for today.
Prelude to a Project
Spiral Architect (5:29)
Sorcerers of madness selling me their time,
Child of God sitting in the sun giving peace of mind,
Fictional seduction on a black snow sky,
Sadness kills the superman even fathers cried.
Of all the things I value most of all
I look inside myself and see my world and know that it is good,
You know that I should.
Superstitious century, didn't time go slow?
Separating sanity, watching children grow,
Synchronated undertaker spiral skies,
Silver ships on plasmic oceans in disguise.
Of all the things I value most in life
I see my memories and feel their warmth and know that they are good,
You know that I should.
Watching eyes of celluloid tell you how to live,
Metaphoric motor replay, give, give, give!
Laughter, kissing, love is showing me the way,
Spiral city architect, I build, you pay.
Of all the things I value most of all
I look upon my earth and feel the warmth and know that it is good,
You know that I should,
You know that I should,
You know that I should,
You know that I should,
You know that I should.


Transcription by Shawn Glick and Chris Slenker 1997.

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