Black Sabbath

Released: June 22, 1992

Songwriter: Dio Tony Iommi Geezer Butler

Producer: Reinhold Mack

[Verse 1]
Waiting for the revolution
New clear vision, genocide
Computerize God, it's the new religion
Program the brain, not the heartbeat

[Verse 2]
Onward all you crystal soldiers
Touch tomorrow, energize
Digital dreams and you're the next correction
Man's a mistake so we'll fix it, yeah

[Pre-Chorus]
Take a look at your own reflection
Right before your eyes
It turns to steel

[Chorus]
There's another side of heaven
This way - to technical paradise
Find it on the other side
When the walls fall down

[Verse 3]
Love is automatic pleasure
Virtual reality
Terminal hate, it's a calculation
Send in the child for connection

[Pre-Chorus]
Take a look at the toys around you
Right before your eyes
The toys are real

[Chorus]
There's another side of heaven
This way - to technical paradise
Find it on the other side
When the walls fall down

[Instrumental Break]

[Bridge]
Midnight confessions
Never heal the soul
What you believe is fantasy
Your past is your future
Left behind, lost in time
Will you surrender?

[Verse 4]
Waiting for the revolution
Program the brain, not the heartbeat

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 5]
Deliver us to evil, deny us of our faith
Robotic hearts bleed poison
On the world we populate
Virtual existence with a superhuman mind
The ultimate creation, destroyer of mankind
Termination of our youth
For we do not compute
No

[Instrumental Outro]

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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