Black Sabbath

Released: September 28, 1978

Songwriter: Bill Ward Ozzy Osbourne Tony Iommi Geezer Butler

Producer: Black Sabbath

[Verse 1]
Born in a window
Nobody's fool
Raised in a prison
You called a school
Taught your religion
Told what to do
I handed my childhood
Over to you

[Pre-Chorus]
Traveling endlessly, I'm searching for mind
I'm almost afraid of what I will find
Wandering aimlessly, oh, what can I do?
I handed my future over to you, to you

[Chorus]
Over to you
Future looks blue
What can I do?

[Verse 2]
Working for freedom
Fighting your wars
Feeding our children
Keeping your laws
Someday you’ll suffer
Then what I’ll do
I’ll hand all your promises
Over to you

[Pre-Chorus]
Standing inside myself, I'm losing control
You made me believe in the stories you told
Waiting impatiently, what else can I do?
I handed my future over to you, to you

[Chorus]
Over to you
Future looks blue
What can I do?

[Verse 3]
Tears full of sadness
Sealed in my cell
Whispering secrets
What do they tell
Mad politicians
Can’t tell it true
I handed my children
Over to you

[Outro]
All over, over to you
All over, over to you
All over, over to you...

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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From the albums

Never Say Die! (1978)
Black Box: The Complete Original Black Sabbath 1970-1978 (2004)
The Ten Year War (2017)

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