Released: September 28, 1978
Songwriter: Bill Ward Ozzy Osbourne Tony Iommi Geezer Butler
Producer: Black Sabbath
"Never Say Die" is the title track from the 1978 album Never Say Die!. It was the last single Black Sabbath wrote with singer Ozzy Osbourne, who left the band and went on to a successful solo career, until 1998's Psycho Man. Osbourne actually left the band before Never Say Die! was released, but came back to record this album. The band collectively chose the title as a phrase that summed up the previous ten years of their lives. It deals with never giving up. Read more on Last.fm.
Length: 3:50
People going nowhere, taken for a ride
Looking for the answers that they know inside
Searching for a reason, looking for a rhyme
Snow white parasite, partners in crime
[Chorus]
Don't they ever have to worry?
Don't you ever wonder why?
It's a part of me that tells you
Oh, don't you ever, don't ever say die
Never, never, never say die again
[Verse 2]
Sunday satisfaction, madness on the rise
Truth is on the doorstep, welcoming the lies
All dressed up in sorrow, got no place to go
Hold tight, do it right, taking it slow
[Chorus]
Don't they ever have to worry?
Don't you ever wonder why?
It's a part of me that tells you
Oh, don't you ever, don't ever say die
Never, never, never say die again
[Bridge]
Don't you ever say die
Don't you ever say die
Never say die
[Verse 3]
Fading silver lining, writing's on the wall
Children get together, you can save us all
Future's on the corner, showing us our time
Slow down, turn around, everything's fine
[Chorus]
There's no need to have a reason
There's no need to wonder why
It's a part of me that tells you
Oh, don't you ever, don't ever say die
Never, never, never say die again
[Guitar Solo]
[Outro]
Never say die!
The Ten Year War
- Supertzar
- Dirty Women
- She’s Gone
- Rock ‘N’ Roll Doctor
- All Moving Parts (Stand Still)
- Gypsy
- It’s Alright
- You Won’t Change Me
- Back Street Kids
- The Writ
- Am I Going Insane (Radio)
- Megalomania
- Symptom of the Universe
- Hole in the Sky
- Spiral Architect
- Never Say Die
- Johnny Blade
- Breakout
- Rat Salad
- Orchid
- Embryo
- Laguna Sunrise
- FX
- Fluff
- Don’t Start (Too Late)
- Swinging the Chain
- Over to You
- Air Dance
- Shock Wave
- Hard Road
- Junior’s Eyes
- Looking for Today
- Who Are You?
- Killing Yourself to Live
- Hand of Doom
- Planet Caravan
- The Thrill of It All
- Warning
- Sleeping Village
- Evil Woman
- Behind the Wall of Sleep
- Sweet Leaf
- Changes
- Paranoid
- Electric Funeral
- The Wizard
- War Pigs
- Black Sabbath
- Fairies Wear Boots
- After Forever
- Sabbra Cadabra
- A National Acrobat
- Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
- Under the Sun / Every Day Comes and Goes
- Cornucopia
- St. Vitus’ Dance
- Snowblind
- Supernaut
- Tomorrow’s Dream
- Wheels of Confusion
- Into the Void
- Solitude
- Lord of This World
- Children of the Grave
- Iron Man
- Never Say Die! (1978)
- Between Heaven & Hell: 1970 - 1983 (1995)
- Black Box: The Complete Original Black Sabbath 1970-1978 (2004)
- Greatest Hits (2009)
- The Ultimate Collection (2016)
- The Ten Year War (2017)
- Paranoid
- Iron Man
- War Pigs
- N.I.B.
- Heaven and Hell
- Black Sabbath
- Planet Caravan
- Changes
- Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
- Sweet Leaf
- Children of the Grave
- Fairies Wear Boots
- Electric Funeral
- God Is Dead?
- Hand of Doom
- Snowblind
- Solitude
- Into the Void
- The Wizard
- Behind the Wall of Sleep
- A National Acrobat
- Warning
- After Forever
- Symptom of the Universe