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After All (The Dead)Black Sabbath

Released: June 20, 1992

Songwriter: Dio Tony Iommi Geezer Butler

Producer: Reinhold Mack

[Verse 1]
What do you say to the dead?
Will you forgive me for living?
Can't believe the things that they said
Wonderful day for a killing, it's killing me

[Verse 2]
What do they do with your soul?
Is it just lying there busted?
When did you lose all control?
Is there someone to be trusted with my mind?

[Verse 3]
Oh there's insufficient evidence
Of what just might come after
But sometimes out of nowhere
There's demented sounds of laughter

[Verse 4]
Are we all haunted by the ghost, imagination
It just can't be
I've seen them there, howling at the moon
Is it just me or does somebody else believe this?
Well I'm not alone and I'm not afraid
There's just one way to see

[Chorus]
After all, after all
After all, after all

[Verse 5]
What do you say to the dead?
Is there a place where it's burning?
It says in a book I once read
Yes, there's a chance of returning turn to me

[Verse 6]
The fundamental principles
Say nothing of forever
But those are voices that I hear or I'm just not so clever
It can't be me
I know somebody else believes this
Well I'm not alone, I'm not afraid, just one way to see

[Chorus]
After all, after all
Coming after all
After all, after all
After all, after all...

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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