Black Sabbath

Songwriter: Tony Martin (heavy metal vocalist) Tony Iommi Geoff Nicholls Cozy Powell Neil Murray

I see it on the TV, it's playing on my mind
Everything I see has got something to do with killing my brother

Just another mind game? or maybe it's a sign
When the child with a gun holds it up to the head of his brother

Well that ain't nice, gotta get a grip, gotta get a hold on life
Gotta get a grip cause you're gonna slip, yeah

Somebody tell me, where did we lose?
Where's the point that we lost the control to live with each other?
Mister politician, searching for a lie
What's the truth? will the youth find the proof for a revolution?

Cause that ain't nice, gotta get a grip, gotta get a hold on life
Gotta get a grip cause you're gonna slip, on ice
Gotta get a grip, gotta get a hold on life
Gotta get a grip cause you're gonna slip

Gotta get a hold of the situation, gotta get you into my life
Gotta get a hold and get it moving
I can't tell you what you need to know it's up to you, oh yeah

That ain't nice, gotta get a grip, gotta get a hold on life
Gotta get a grip, cause you're gonna slip, on ice
Gotta get a grip, gotta get a hold on life
Gotta get a grip cause you're gonna slip

Gotta get a hold of the situation, gotta get a hold on life
Gotta get a grip and get it moving
I can't tell you what you need to know, it's up to you, oh yeah

Don't your blood run cold, don't the sorrow show
Hold on tight to what you have
See it in your eyes, don't it make you cry
Get a grip and shake the can
Get a grip, yeah, get a grip, yeah, get a grip, yeah
Get a grip, get a grip, get a grip, get a grip, get a hold
Get a grip on life, get a grip on life, get a grip on life
Yeah get a grip

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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