Black Sabbath – Paranoid

“Paranoid” – Single by Black Sabbath from the album Paranoid with the B-side “The Wizard”. Released 7 August 1970

“Paranoid” is a song by heavy metal band Black Sabbath, released in 1970 off the band’s second studio album Paranoid (1970). It is the first single from the album, while the B-side is the song “The Wizard”. It reached number 4 on the UK Singles Chart and number 61 on the US Billboard Hot 100

This was the title track to the second Sabbath album. The band wanted to call the album “War Pigs,” after another song on the set, but the record company made them use “Paranoid” instead because it was less offensive. The album art, however, is a literal interpretation of a “War Pig,” showing a pig with a sword and shield.

The word “Paranoid” is never mentioned in the song, but there is no logical title amongst the lyrics.

Although this was the first Black Sabbath-penned single, the band’s debut single was actually a cover of Crow’s “Evil Woman Don’t Play Your Games With Me” a few months before the “Paranoid” release. “Paranoid” was much more successful. It was released six months after their self-titled first album and had a huge impact in their native UK, going to #4 and becoming one of their signature songs.

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Black Sabbath - "Paranoid" Belgium 197002:51

Piesa a apărut original pe albumul Paranoid, din 1970. A fost considerată ca o piesă de “umplutură”: partea de compoziție a durat 20-25 de minute. Cu totul, această melodie a fost compusă și înregistrată în aproximativ 2 ore.

În timp sa dovedit a fi una din piesele cu cea mai mare influentă pe scena heavy-metal.

Lyrics:

Finished with my woman, ’cause she couldn’t help me
With my mind
People think I’m insane because I am frowning
All the time
All day long, I think of things, but nothing seems
To satisfy
Think I’ll lose my mind if I don’t find something
To pacify

Can you help me
Occupy my brain?
Oh, yeah!

I need someone to show me the things in life
That I can’t find
I can’t see the things that make true happiness
I must be blind

Make a joke and I will sigh and you will laugh
And I will cry
Happiness, I cannot feel and love, to me
Is so unreal
And so, as you hear these words telling you now
Of my state
I tell you to enjoy life, I wish I could
But it’s too late

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