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Shaking off the ChainsBlack Sabbath

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

Is life everything you want to be
Does it give you everything that you need
Does it live up to your expectations
Are you ready for the celebrations

This is not for the weak of mind
Are you sure that you're my kind
Do you want to be part of me
Are you sure that you can really see

Are you chained to a life that you don't want
Is it hard for you to find a way out
Can you live without the love that you need
Are you sure that what you have is so real

This is not for the weak of mind
Are you sure that you're my kind
Do you want to be part of me
Are you sure that you can really see

All of your life, they try to take your cover
Turn you into another, and make you change your name
When you fall, it's up to you to recover
You can't depend on another, to help you with the pain, yeah

I'm shaking off the chains
I'm shaking off the chains

This is not for the weak of mind
Are you sure that you're my kind
Do you want to be part of me
Are you sure that you can really see

In the night, you say that are falling
People always calling, calling out your name
What do you know, a face appears at the window
Tapping on the window, the window of your soul

I'm shaking off the chains, I'm tired of all the pain
I'm shaking off the chains, let me live again
Shaking off the chains, shaking off the chains

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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