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TrashedBlack Sabbath

Released: August 7, 1983

Songwriter: Ian Gillan Geezer Butler Tony Iommi Bill Ward

Producer: Robin Black

[Verse 1]
It really was a meeting
The bottle took a beating
The ladies of the manor
Watched me climb into my car and I was
Going down the track about a hundred and five
They had the stopwatch rolling
I had the headlights blazing I was really alive
And yet my mind was blowing
I drank a bottle of tequila and I felt real good
I had the tape deck roarin
But on the twenty-fifth lap at the canal turn
I went off exploring

[Chorus]
I knew I wouldn’t make it the car just wouldn’t take it
I was turning the tires burning
The ground was in my sky
I was laughing the bitch was trashed
And death was in my eye

[Verse 2]
I had started pretty good and I was feeling my way
I had the wheels in motion
There was Peter and the Greenfly laughing like drains
Inebriation
The crowd was roaring I was at Brands Hatch
In my imagination
But at the canal turn I hit an oily patch
Inebriation

[Chorus]
I knew I wouldn’t make it the car just wouldn’t take it
I was turning the tires burning
The ground was in my sky
I was laughing the bitch was trashed
And death was in my eye

[Bridge]
Mr. Miracle, you saved me from some pain
I thank you Mr. Miracle, I won’t get trashed again
Can you hear my lies
Don’t you bother with this fool just laugh into my eyes

[Guitar Solo]

[Chorus]
I was turning the tires burning
The ground was in my sky
I was laughing the bitch was trashed
And death was in my eye

[Bridge]
Mr. Miracle, you saved me from some pain
I thank you Mr. Miracle, I won’t get trashed again
Can you hear my lies
Don’t you bother with this fool just laugh into my eyes

[Verse 3]
So we went back to the bar and hit the bottle again
But there was no tequila
Then we started on the whiskey just to steady our brains
‘Cause there was no tequila
And as we drank a little faster at the top of our hill
We began to roll
And as we got trashed we were laughing still
Bless my soul

Black Sabbath

From their start as a heavy blues-rock band called Earth in 1968, Black Sabbath survived over four decades with a total of 19 studio albums and numerous hits, but only “Paranoid” reached the top 10 UK Singles Chart, putting together one of the greatest rock bands of all time and setting the standards for music in their genre.

Virtually every single heavy metal band has cited the early Black Sabbath albums as a major musical influence and Black Sabbath have at least played some part in laying the foundations for most of heavy metal’s sub-genres, including thrash metal (“Symptom of the Universe” and “Into the Void”), doom metal (“Black Sabbath”) and stoner metal (“Sweet Leaf”). The band also explored many rock sub-genres, including hard rock (“Paranoid”), blues rock (“N.I.B.”), psychedelic rock (“Planet Caravan”) and, of course, the traditional heavy metal, being one of the precursors of this genre.

They were ranked by MTV as the “Greatest Metal Band” of all time and placed second in VH1’s “100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock” list. Rolling Stone magazine ranked them number 85 in their “100 Greatest Artists of All Time.” They have sold over 70 million records worldwide. Black Sabbath were inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006. They have also won two Grammy Awards for Best Metal Performance.

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