Black Sabbath - Sabotage

Black Sabbath - SabotageSabotage

Released: September, 1975
1 Hole in the Sky (4:00)
2 Don't Start (Too Late) (0:49)
3 Symptom of the Universe (6:29)
4 Megalomania (9:43)
5 Thrill of it All (5:55)
6 Supertzar (3:42)
7 Am I Going Insane (Radio) (4:15)
8 The Writ (8:43)
Blow on a Jug




Hole in the Sky (4:00)
No count in- the mic - WE'RE GOD!!!
1,2,3,4
I'm looking through a hole in the sky
I'm seeing nowhere through the eyes of a lie
I'm getting closer to the end of the line
I'm living easy where the sun doesn't shine
I'm living in a room without any view
I'm living free because the rent's never due
The synonym of all the things that I've said
Are just the riddles that are built in my head
Hole in the sky
Gateway to heaven
Window in time
Through it I fly
I've seen the stars that disappear in the sun
But shooting's easy if you've got the right gun
And even though I'm sitting waiting for Mars
I don't believe there's any future in [cars]/[cards]
Hole in the sky
Gateway to heaven
Window in time
Through it I fly yeah
I've watched the dogs of war enjoying their feast
I've seen the western world go down in the east
The food of love became the greed of our time
But now we're living on the profits of crime
Don't Start (Too Late) (0:49)
Instrumental
Symptom of the Universe (6:29)
Take me through the centuries to super sonic years
Electrifying enemy is drowning in his tears
All I have to give you is a love that never dies
The symptom of the universe is written in your eyes
Yeah Yeah
Mother moon she's calling me back to her silver womb
Father of creation takes me from my stolen tomb
Seventh hundredth unicorn is waiting in the skies
A symptom of the universe a love that never (died/dies)
Yeah Yeah
Hot
Take my hand my child of love come step inside my tears
Swim the magic ocean I've been crying all these years
With our love we'll ride away into eternal skies
A symptom of the universe a love that never (died/dies)
Yeah Yeah
Sick
Zoo
Woman child of love's creation come and step inside my dreams
In your eyes I see no sadness you are all that loving means
Take my hand and we'll go riding through the sunshine from above
We'll find happiness together in the summer skies of love
Megalomania (9:43)
I hide I hide I hide I hide I hide I hide I hide I hide
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 so mean.
No sympathizing god its insanity, yeah!
Why don't ya just get out of my life, yeah?
Why don't ya just get out of my life now?
Why doesn't everybody leave me alone now?
Why doesn't everybody leave me alone, yeah?
Obsessed Obsessed Obsessed Obsessed Obsessed
Obsessed Obsessed Obsessed Obsessed
Obsessed with fantasy, possessed with my schemes
I mixed reality with pseudogod 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 ya just get out of my life, yeah?
Why don't ya 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 that something's taken 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
How I lied went to hide
How I tried to get away from you now
(I'm alright/Am I right) if I fight
That I might just get away from you now
Sting Me!
Well I feel that something's giving me the chance to return
It's giving me the chance of saving my soul
Beer (turned the/ prism) demigod I'm fading away
I'm going backwards but I'm in control
Feel it slipping away, slipping in tomorrow
Getting back to sanity, from the depths 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
(I'm alright/Am I right) if I fight /*under alright is dizzy
That I might just get away from you now
Suck Me!
I'm really digging schizophrenia the best of the earth
I'll chase my soul in the fires of hell
Peace of mind eluded me, but now it's all mine
I set the trap, but it was me who failed
Feel it slipping away, slipping in tomorrow
Now I've found my happiness, from the depths of sorrow
No more lies, I got wise
I despise the way I worship you, yeah
Now I'm free, can't you see
And now instead I won't be led by you now
Priest!
7:52 Ahhhhh-ahhhh
8:06 I'm still (Sad Satin/Jack Rotten)
8:13 Now you listen hey hey hey
8:19 Ohh-no no no no god
8:24 Ohh - oh, oh - oh...
8:30 Un-hap-py (beast/me)
8:37 AHHHah haha HAA...
8:46 Ahh-ha, ha ha ha HA
8:49 Back in Back in Back in the door the whore
Thrill of it All (5:55)
Yeah! Sey
Inclination of DIE-rection, walk the turn and (twist adrift / twisted rift)
With the children of creation futuristic dreams we sift
Clutching violently we whisper with a liquefying (cry / eye)
Many deadly final answers that are surely doomed to die
Won't ya help me Mr. Jesus?
Won't ya tell me if you can?
When ya see this world we live in
Do ya still believe in man?
If my psalms become my freedom
And my freedom turns to gold
Then I'll ask the final question
If the answer could be sold
Well that's my story and I'm stickin' to it
'Cos I've got no reason to lie, yeah
Forget your problems that don't even exist
And I'll show you a way to get high
Oh yeah! Oh yeah! Oh yeah! Oh yeah!
So come alive you know ( you're magic / you matter ) to me
Remember freedom is not hard to find, yeah
Time to stop all your messin' around
Don't you think that I know my own mind?
Oh yeah! Oh yeah! Oh yeah! Oh yeah!
Why can't you believe it's right here to be seen
Do you always have to be told, yeah
Will you have a thought or did you find (its been (bought/rot)/it in god,)
Long before your answer was sold
Oh yeah! Oh yeah! Oh yeah! Oh yeah! Oh yeah.
Supertzar (3:42)
Instrumental
Am I Going Insane (Radio) (4:15)
Ev'rybody's looking at me
Feeling paranoid inside (leave)
When I step outside I'll feel free
Think I'll find a place to hide
Tell me people,
Am I going insane, insane?
Tell me people,
Am I going insane, insane?
Ev'ryday I sit and wonder
How my life it used to be
Now I feel like going under
Now my life is hard to see
So tell me people,
Am I going insane, insane?
Tell me people,
Am I going insane, insane?
So I'm telling all you people
Listen while I sing again
If I don't sound very cheerful
I think that I'm a schizophrene
So tell me people,
Am I going insane, insane?
Tell me people,
Am I going insane, insane?
Tell me people,
Am I going insane, insane?
Tell me people,
Am I going insane, insane?
The Writ (8:43)
The way I feel is the way I act
I wished 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 'n' roll star for you,
Just for you
The fateful image of another man
The endless ocean of emotion I swam for you,
Yeah for you
Your (sun/sunk) (troopers/ship was) (laid/layin') down on the floor
I wish they'd fallen into my private world 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 dying true,
Yea true
You bought and sold me with your lying word
The voices in the dark that you never heard came through,
Yeah Cain too.
Your fallen phalic dismembered god *1
A poisoned father with his poisonous his son that's you,
Yeah that's you
I'm begging 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 due,
Ah that's soon
Are you Satan? Are you man?
You've changed a lot 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
Keep the living for another day
Rat, Rat
You are nonentity, you have no destiny
You are a figment of a thing unknown
A mantle picture of a stolen soul
A fornication of your golden throne
A smiling face it means the world to me, yeah
So tired of sadness and of misery, yeah
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 far
I feel my world's being torn apart *2
But everything is gonna work out fine, yeah
If it don't some think I'll lose my mind, yeah
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 seen
But everything is gonna work out fine, yeah
If it don't (I'll/some) feel I'll blow my mind, yeah
*1 Your fallen pearly gate membered gone
*2 I feel my world seems gone of trou-bles
Blow on a Jug
Last one
Blow on the Jug
Everybody come on blow on a jug
Be like me and blow on a jug
I want you to blow on a jug
Everybody dig it blow on the jug tonight
If you are blowin' on the jug you are the jug love (man/mean)
oh yeah heh heh oh yeah heh heh
8:11-8:12 what a sad day



Transcription by Shawn Glick and Chris Slenker 1997.

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