Black Sabbath

Songwriter: Tony Martin (heavy metal vocalist) Geezer Butler Tony Iommi

Young life, too young, who's eyes are choking
Can't rest, can't sleep, for dreams that set you
Falling
Don't feel the hunger, can't drink no holy water
No light in these eyes, no place for dreams at all
Tonight

When the hand that rocks the cradle, is the hand
That holds the knife
And the knife that cuts the cable, kills the spark that
Feeds the life

[Hook]
No grave could be deep enough, down to hell if we
Were able
The veil of life was pushed aside, by the hand that
Rocks the cradle

The oath you take is sacred, to save not steel a life
Like the passing of the sweetest soul, that looked
Through human eyes

[Hook]

Young life, too young, who's eyes are choking
Can't rest, can't sleep, for dreams that set you
Falling
Don't feel the hunger, can't drink no holy water
No light in these eyes, no place for dreams at all
Tonight

[Hook]

It's the hand that rocks the cradle, is the hand that
Steels the life

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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