Black Sabbath

Songwriter: Tony Martin (heavy metal vocalist) Eddie Van Halen Tony Iommi Geezer Butler

Something about the way that you look on me
You watch every move, every word, every fantasy
Got no time for love, there's something on your mind
Got the face of an angel but the stare of a devil inside

[Hook]
Got hell looking up, heaven looking down
People say the woman's got an evil eye
Got hell looking up, heaven looking down
Free me from the woman with the evil eye

I turn away but still I see that evil stare
Trapped inside my dreams I know you're there
Thoughts of happiness you destroyed them all
First inside my head, then inside my soul

[Hook]

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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