Black Sabbath Online: Paranoid


Original CD	1996 Remaster	2004 Remaster	2001 Vinyl


	Released September 18, 1970 (UK) Released January 1, 1971 (US) Re-Released February 28, 1996 Re-Released April 27, 2004 (Black Box - Disc 2) [ Previous \| Next ] [ Album lyrics \| Tour dates ] [ Download an mp3 radio advert for this album from 1970 ]

Track Listing

Luke's Wall/War Pigs (7:55) *
Paranoid (2:47)
Planet Caravan (4:24)
Iron Man (5:53)
Electric Funeral (4:47)
Hand of Doom (7:07)
Rat Salad (2:29)
Fairies Wear Boots/Jack the Stripper (6:13) #

* - The intro to War Pigs has it's own name: Luke's Wall
# - The outro to Fairies Wear Boots has it's own name: Jack the Stripper

Writing Credits

All songs by Iommi/Osbourne/Butler/Ward

Other Credits

Tony Iommi - Lead Guitar & Keyboards
Geezer Butler - Bass
Ozzy Osbourne - Vocals
Bill Ward - Drums
Roger Bain - Producer (for Tony Hall Enterprises)
Tony Allom & Brian Humphries - Engineers
Recorded at Regent Sound & Island Studios

Catalogue Numbers

LP Warner 3104-2 (US 1970)
LP Vertigo 6360 011 (UK 18 Sep 1970)
LP Vertigo 6360 011 (Italy 1970)
LP WWA WWA 007 (UK Dec 1973)
LP Warner Bros WS4 (US 1975)
LP NEMS NEL 6003 (UK Jan 1976)
LP NEMS NEP 6003 (UK) [picture disc]
LP Ariola 203 148 (NL 1980)
LP Vertigo 832701-1
MC RCA MC F7417 (1980)
MC Vertigo 832701-4
CD Vertigo 832701-2
CD Essential/Castle ESMCD302 (UK - Mar 1996) - Remastered
CD Sanctuary SMRCD032 (UK 2004)
CD Warner/Rhino R2 73923-B (US 2004) - Black Box


	Notes The original name of this album was to be War Pigs, but it was changed due to perceived hostility the album might have gotten due to the Vietnamese War. The original name of the song War Pigs was Walpurgis, and had totally different lyrics. There were music videos for the songs "Iron Man" & "Paranoid" culled from the Beat Club footage. The song Paranoid appeared in a slightly altered format in the arcade videogame "Rock & Roll Racing" along with the songs Born to Be Wild & Bad to the Bone. Yes, it's Ozzy singing Planet Caravan. Geezer Butler had this to say to a fan via email when asked what bass guitars he played on the first two Black Sabbath records: "Hello Steve, on the first two albums I used a P-bass. On the first album i used a Laney 70 watt guitar amp through a Park 4x12 cabinet [it only had three speakers in it- couldn't afford to buy a 4th speaker]. Strings were probably old Rotosound, as I think that was the only choice in those days. They were roundwound but were so old they probably sounded like flatwounds. I'm not sure what amplification I used on Paranoid, but it was probably Laney, and newer Rotosounds. Thank you for your interest, Geezer."

Artwork / Images

Below is an image of an 8 track version of Paranoid (along with Sabbath's first album).

Below is an image of a UK 7 inch single release of Paranoid from 1977.

NOTE: These lyrics (with the exception of Walpurgis) are verified against the lyrics that appear in the "Black Box" booklet. Those lyrics were gone over by Geezer Butler (who wrote most of them anyway) for that set, and for that reason should be considered definitive.

War Pigs

Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at black masses
Evil minds that plot destruction
Sorcerers of death's construction
In the fields the bodies burning
As the war machine keeps turning
Death and hatred to mankind
poisoning their brainwashed minds
Oh Lord yeah

Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight
They leave that all to the poor

Time will tell on their power minds
Making war just for fun
Treating people just like pawns in chess
Wait 'till their judgment day comes

Now in darkness world stops turning
As the war machine keeps burning
No more war pigs have the power
Hand of God has struck the hour
Day of judgment God is calling
On their knees, the war pigs crawling
Begging mercy for their sins
Satan laughing spreads his wings
Oh Lord yeah

Walpurgis

(Walpurgis is the original name of this song - and it had totally different lyrics back then, but the same music. The only place where this version of the song is (legally) available is on the Ozzy "Ozzman Cometh" Greatest Hits CD.)

Witches gather at black masses
Bodies burning in red ashes
On the hill the church in ruin
Is the scene of evil doings
It's a place for all bad sinners
Watch them eating dead rats' innards
I guess it's the same whereever you may go
Oh Lord yeah

Carry banners which denounce the lord
See me rocking in my grave
See them anoint my head with dead rat's blood
See them stick the stake through me
Oh

Don't hold me back cause I've just gotta go
They've got a hold of my soul now
Lords got my brain instinct with blood obscene (not sure about this line)
Look in my eyes I'm there enough
Yeah

On the scene a priest appears
Sinners falling at his knees
Satan sends out funeral pyre
Casts the priest into the fire
It's the place for all bad sinners
Watch them eating dead rats' innards
I guess it's the same whereever you may go
Oh lord yeah

Paranoid

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


	Planet Caravan We sail through endless skies Stars shine like eyes The black night sighs The moon in silver dreams Falls down in beams Light of the night The Earth a purple blaze Of sapphire haze In orbit always While down below the trees Bathed in cool breeze Silver starlight breaks Dawn from night And so we pass on by The crimson eye Of great god Mars As we travel the universe


	Iron Man Has he lost his mind Can he see or is he blind Can he walk at all Or if he moves will he fall Is he alive or dead Has he thoughts within his head We'll just pass him there Why should we even care He was turned to steel In the great magnetic field When he traveled time For the future of mankind Nobody wants him He just stares at the world Planning his vengeance That he will soon unfurl Now the time is here For Iron Man to spread fear Vengeance from the grave Kills the people he once saved Nobody wants him They just turn their heads Nobody helps him Now he has his revenge Heavy boots of lead Fills his victims full of dread Running as fast as they can Iron Man lives again!


	Electric Funeral Reflex in the sky Warn you you're gonna die Storm coming, you'd better hide From the atomic tide Flashes in the sky Turns houses into sties Turns people into clay Radiation minds decay Robot minds of robot slaves Lead them to atomic graves Plastic flowers, melting sun Fading moon falls upon Dying world of radiation, Victims of man's frustration Burning globe of obscene fire Like electric funeral pyre Buildings crashing down To Earth's cracking ground Rivers turn to mud Eyes melt into blood Earth lies in deathbed Clouds cry for the dead Tearing falling rain Ease the burning pain Electric Funeral Electric Funeral Electric Funeral Electric Funeral And so in the sky Shines the electric eye Supernatural king Takes earth under his wing Heaven's golden chorus sings Hell's angels flap their wings Evil souls fall to Hell Ever trapped in burning cell!


	Hand of Doom What you gonna do Time's caught up with you Now you wait your turn You know there's no return Change your empty rules You join the other fools Turn to something new Now it's killing you First it was the bomb, Vietnam napalm Disillusioning, you push the needle in From life you escape, reality's black drape Colours in your mind satisfy your time Oh you, you know you must be blind To do something like this To take the sweet that you don't know You're giving Death a kiss Poor little fool now Your mind is full of pleasure Your body's looking ill To you it's shallow leisure So drop the acid pill Don't stop to think now You're having a good time baby But that won't last Your mind's all full of things You're living too fast Go out, enjoy yourself Don't bottle it in You need someone to help you Stick the needle in, yeah Now you know the scene Your skin starts turning green Your eyes no longer seeing life's reality Push the needle in Face death's sickly grin Holes are in your skin Caused by deadly pin Head starts spinning 'round You fall down to the ground Feel your body heave Death hand starts to weave It's too late to turn You don't want to learn Price of life is high Now you're gonna die


	Rat Salad Instrumental - no lyrics available

Fairies Wear Boots

Goin' home late last night
Suddenly I got a fright
Yeah I looked through the window
and surprised what I saw
Fairy boots were dancin' with a dwarf
All right now!

Yea, fairies wear boots and you gotta believe me
Yeah I saw it, I saw it, I tell you no lies
Yeah fairies wear boots and you gotta believe me
I saw it, I saw it with my own two eyes
All right now!

Yea, fairies wear boots and you gotta believe me
Yeah I saw it, I saw it, I tell you no lies
Yeah fairies wear boots and you gotta believe me
I saw it, I saw it with my own two eyes
All right now!

So I went to the doctor see what he could give me
He said Son, Son, you've gone too far
'Cause smokin' and trippin' is all that you do
Yeah!