Black Sabbath - Technical Ecstasy

Black Sabbath - Technical EcstasyTechnical Ecstasy

Released: November, 1976
1 Back Street Kids (3:46)
2 You Won't Change Me (6:34)
3 It's Alright (3:58)
4 Gypsy (5:10)
5 All Moving Parts (Stand Still) (4:59)
6 Rock 'N' Roll Doctor (3:25)
7 She's Gone (4:51)
8 Dirty Women (7:15)


Back Street Kids (3:46)
I'm just another back street kid
Rock 'n' Roll music is the only thing I really dig
Can't stop the music going 'round inside my head
I'm a rock 'n' roll soldier, gonna play it until I'm dead
Nobody I know will ever take my rock 'n' roll away from me
Sitting in the back suite of a shiny limousine
Gettin' in a taxi can't remember where I've been
Playing my music, sitting in my hotel room
Writing about the stars and thinking about the hand of doom
Nobody I know will ever take my rock 'n' roll away from me
Living life comes easy if you know which way you're going
Got to see yourself in others' eyes, surprise.
Living like I want to don't come easy, but I'm trying
Sorting out what's true and what are lies, it's wise
Brought up in a back street living with the salt of the land
Seems that now my music's paying off my tax demand
So listen to the music, wanna see you gettin' so high
'Cos I'm a back street rocker and I will be 'till the day I die
Nobody I know will ever take my rock 'n' roll away from me
You Won't Change Me (6:34)
I'm just a man and I am what I am, yeah
Nobody will ever change my ways
I don't need money and I don't need your lies, yeah
I only need to live for today
But I'd like to talk things over with you
I wanna hear the things you say, today
Although you won't change me anyway, oh no way
I wish you'd come and see me, I'd like to hold you
I wanna set my mind all free
You understand me woman, you give me time, yeah
But I don't need no sympathy
Still I wonder what it's like to be loved
Instead of hiding in myself
Nobody will change me anyway, no no way
Nobody's gonna change my world
That's something too unreal
Nobody will change the way I feel
So listen to me now, hear what I say, yeah
Please give me time and maybe love
If there's a God up there, well I hope he helps me
I need you now to set me free
'Cos it may be that it's over for me
If you don't hear the things that I say, today
Nobody will change me anyway, no no way
Nobody's gonna change my world
That's something too unreal
Nobody will change the way I feel
It's Alright (3:58)
Told you once about you friends and neighbors
They were always seeking but they'll never find it
It's alright, yes it's alright
Where to going and where to see
It's always been that way and it can never be
It's alright, 'cos it's alright
Give it all and ask for no return
And very soon you'll see and you'll begin to learn
That's it's alright, 'cos it's alright
Ooh...it's alright, 'cos it's alright
Don't you know that it's so good for you
You can be making love and see it all go through
But it's alright, 'cos it alright
So I told you once about your friends and neighbors
They were always seeking but they'll never find it
It's alright, 'cos it's alright
Ooh...
Alright alright alright alright alright
alright alright alright alright alright
alright alright alright alright alright
alright am i immortal alright alright alright
Gypsy (5:10)
Watched the universe at the death of another day
Fatalistic ships from a distant shore...
In the back of my mind I could feel she was standing there
Like the feeling you have when you've been there before...
She was a gypsy woman
She was as cold as the day, yeah
She said I got it comin'
And then she took me away, yeah
She took me through the shadows of her sunken dream
I thought it's over for me, she wasn't all she seemed...
She took my hand and then she started to speak
She told me she'd had the call
With eyes of fire that were burning my soul
She looked into her crystal ball
She read my fortune then she read my mind
She didn't like my thoughts at all
She showed me shadows, a spectre of life
My soul just wanted to scream
She stared so deeply into my eyes
That's when I fell into a dream
When I awoke in bed she lay beside me
And as she read me with her eyes, she said
So you wanna be a gypsy, come on now
So you wanna be a gypsy, come on now, Now, NOW...
Gypsy woman you're the devil in drag
You are the queen of all Hell
You took my body, now you wasted my soul
You've got me under your spell*
And as the sun shines on another day
You're gonna take my mind as well, it's over
So you wanna be a gypsy, ahh-ah come on now
So you wanna be a gypsy, ahh-ah come on now
So you wanna be a gypsy, ahh-ah come on now
( ahh---------------ah)
So you wanna be a gypsy, gypsy, gypsy, gypsy
*spell-(hell)
All Moving Parts (Stand Still) (4:59)
Super animation, turning on a nation
And they're saying all moving parts stand still
Since he was elected, adrenalin injected
Hear him saying all moving parts should kill
Just like the hero he's got them all on the run,
yes he's won, yeah yeah
Since he passed the motion they're building in the ocean
And he's saying all men should all be free
What a combination, peace and radiation
And he's saying free men should fight for me
Just like his momma, he seems to get his pleasure from pain,
And the rain, ain't that strange? Very strange, yeah!
I like choking toys you've got to see me before you meet the boys
Teacher's burnt the school,
he's had enough of sticking to the rules, alright
People stop and see he's got to be more decadent than me
Just to pass the time he gets his kicks from licking off the wine
Precious silly ladies all Cynthia's and Sadie's
Call him up and he takes their numbers down
Said he is a woman I should have seen it coming
And she's saying she's married to a clown
Just like a lady she'll keep you guessing through the night
Not tonight, well I might, oh alright yeah
Rock 'N' Roll Doctor (3:25)
Well I'm sick and tired of hearing 'bout the and it's hang ups
Gonna get myself together, take a ride down town
Gotta see my rock 'n' roll doctor
Gotta see my rock 'n' roll doctor
Gotta see my rock 'n' roll doctor
I gotta see him, see him today
He gonna blow me away
He makes me happy when I'm feeling down, yeah
Takes away my worry takes away my frown
Gotta see my rock 'n' roll doctor
Gotta see my rock 'n' roll doctor
Gotta see my rock 'n' roll doctor
I gotta see him, see him today
He gonna blow me away
If you wanna feel groovy give the doctor a call, yeah
Doctor rock will help you anytime at all
Gotta see my rock 'n' roll doctor
Gotta see my rock 'n' roll doctor
Gotta see my rock 'n' roll doctor
I gotta see him, see him today
He gonna blow me away
Ahhh right away
Now gonna blow me away
Ahhh right away, ooh yeah yeah, right away
Now gonna blow me away
Ahhh right away, ooh yeah, ooh yeah, right away
Ooh yeah, ooh
She's Gone (4:51)
I've been a long long time, a waitin' for you
I didn't want to see you go, oh no no
And now it's hurting so much, what can I do?
I wanted you to be my wife
The days are passing slowly, since you've gone
Your memories are all I have, yes I have
I sit here waiting but you'll never show
Without you I can't carry on, ooh my baby
You said you'd always love me, all of my life
And then you said your last goodbye, yeah goodbye
Why the sudden changes, why all of the lies?
I should have seen it in your eyes
The endless hours of heartache, a waitin' for you
My summer love has turned to rain, ohh the pain
The silent emptiness of one sided love
My life means nothing now you've gone, ooh my baby
Dirty Women (7:15)
The neon lights are shining on me again
I walk the lonely streets in search of a friend
I need a lady to help me to get through the night,
through the night
If I could find her then everything would feel alright
The sleepy city is dreaming the night time away
Out on the streets I watch tomorrow becoming today
I see a man he's got take away women for sale, yes for sale
Guess that's the answer 'cos take away women don't fail
Oh dirty women, they don't mess around
Oh dirty women, they don't mess around
You got me comin' ya got me goin' around
Oh dirty women, they don't mess around
Let's go! death!
(Dirty women)
Walking the streets I wonder will it ever happen
(Dirty women)
Gotta be good 'cos everything will be o.k.
(Dirty women)
If I could score tonight then I will end up happy
(Dirty women)
A women for sale is gonna help me save my day
Dirty women, dirty women, dirty women, dirty women,
Dirty women, dirty women, dirty women, dirty women,
Dirty women, dirty women, dirty women, dirty women,
Dirty women, dirty women, dirty women, dirty women,
Dirty women, dirty women, dirty women, dirty women


Transcription by Shawn Glick and Chris Slenker 1997.

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