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1. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (5:35)
2. A National Acrobat (6:20)
3. Fluff (4:10)
4. Sabbra Cadabra (5:55)
5. Killing Yourself to Live (5:35)
6. Who are You? (4:10)
7. Looking for Today (5:00)
8. Spiral Architect (4:40)

• All songs by Black Sabbath 

Other Credits

• Tony Iommi - Lead Guitar
• Geezer Butler - Bass
• Ozzy Osbourne - Vocals
• Bill Ward - Drums
• Rick Wakeman - Keyboards
• Produced by Black Sabbath
• Engineered by Mike Butcher

Catalogue Numbers

• LP Vertigo 6360 115 (UK Dec 1973)
• LP Vertigo 6366 101 (WG 1973)
• LP Warner Bros BS 2695 (US)
• CD Warner Bros BS 2695-2 (US 19??)
• LP WWA WWA 005 (1974)
• LP NEMS NEL 6017 (UK 1980)
• LP NEMS 1610144 5 (Spain)
• LP Vertigo 832700-1
• MC RCA MC F7423 (1980)
• MC Vertigo 832700-4
• CD Vertigo 832700-2
• CD Essential/Castle ESMCD305 (UK - Mar 1996) - Remastered
• CD Sanctuary SMRCD035 (UK 2004)
• CD Warner/Rhino R2 73923-E (US 2004) - Black Box

• There is a (rather goofy) music video for the song "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath".
• Rick Wakeman (of Yes) plays keyboards on some of this album.
• Killing Yourself to Live has also at times had subtitles of "You Think That I'm Crazy" & "I Don't Know if I'm Up or Down".
• The lyric "silver ships on plasmic oceans in disguise" is about injecting drugs, according to Geezer Butler.  Geezer had this to say about the lyric..  "its about injecting drugs, the needle being the silver ship, the plasmic ocean being blood."

You've seen right through distorted lies
You know you have to learn
The execution of your mind
You really had to turn
The race is run the book is read
The end begins to show
The truth is out, the lies are old
But you don't want to know

Nobody will ever let you know
When you ask the reason why
They just tell you that you're on your own
Fill your head all full of lies

The people who have crippled you
You want to see them burn
The gates of life have closed on you
And now there's just no return
You're wishing that the hand of doom
Could take your mind away
And you don't care if you don't see again
The light of day

Nobody will ever let you know
When you ask the reasons why
They just tell you that you're on your own
Fill your head all full of lies

Where can you run to
What more can you do
No more tomorrow
Life is killing you
Dreams turn to nightmares
Heaven turns to hell
Burned out confusion
Nothing more to tell

Everything around you
What's it coming to
God knows as your dognose
Bog blast all of you
Sabbath bloody sabbath
Nothing more to do
Living just for dying
Dying just for you

I am the world that hides
The universal secret of all time
Destruction of the empty spaces
Is my one and only crime
I've lived a thousand times
I found out what it means to be believed
The thoughts and images
The unborn child that never was conceived

When little worlds collide
I'm trapped inside my embryonic cell
And flashing memories
Are cast into the never-ending well
The name that scorns the face
The child that never sees the cause of man
The deathly darkness that
Belies the fate of those who never ran

Well I know its hard for you
To know the reason why
And I know you'll understand
More when it's time to die
Don't believe the life you have
Will be the only one
You have to let your body sleep
To let your soul live on

I want you to listen
I'm trying to get through

Love has given life to you
And now it's your concern
Unseen eye of inner life
Will make your soul return
Still I look but not to touch
The seeds of life are sown
Curtain of the future falls
The secret stays unknown

Just remember love is life
And hate is living death
Treat your life for what it's worth
And live for every breath
Looking back I've lived and learned
But now I'm wondering
Here I wait and only guess
What this next life will bring

Instrumental

Sabbra Cadabra

Feel so good I feel so fine
Love that little lady always on my mind
She gives me loving every night and day
Never gonna leave her, never going away

Someone to love me
You know she makes me feel alright
Someone to need me
Love me every single night

Feel so happy since I met that girl
When we're making love it's something out of this world
Feels so good to know that she's all mine
Going to love that woman 'til the end of time

Someone to live for
Love me 'til the end of time
Makes me feel happy
Good to know that she's all mine

Lovely lady make love all night long
Lovely lady never do me wrong
I don't wanna leave ya
I never ganna leave ya,
anymore no more

Lovely lady, mystifying eyes
Lovely lady, she don't tell me no lies
I know I'll never leave ya
I'm never gonna leave ya anymore no more

Well people look and people stare
Well I don't think that I even care
You work your life away and what do they give?
You're only killing yourself to live
Killing yourself to live

Just take a look around you what do you see
Pain, suffering, and misery
It's not the way that the world was planned
It's a pity you don't understand
Killing yourself to live

I'm telling you
Believe in me
Nobody else will tell you
Open your eyes
And see the lies, oh yeah

You think I'm crazy and baby
I know that it's true
Before that you know it I think
That you'll go crazy too

I don't know if I'm up or down
Whether black is white or blue is brown
The colors of my life are all different somehow
Little boy blue's a big girl now

So you think it's me who's strange
But you've never had to make the change
Never give your trust away
You'll end up paying 'til your dying day

Yes I know the secret
That's within your mind
You think all the people
Who worship you are blind
You're just like Big Brother

Giving us your trust
And when you have played enough
You'll just cast our souls
Into the dust
Into the dust

You thought that it would be easy
From the very start
Now I've found you out
I don't think you're so smart
I only have one more question
Before my time is through
Please I beg you tell me
In the name of hell
Who are you?
Who are you?

It's complete but obsolete
All tomorrows become yesterday
In demand but second-hand
It's been heard before you even play

Up to date but came too late
Better get yourself another name
You're so right but overnight
You're the one who has to take the blame

Everyone just gets on top of you
The pain begins to eat your pride
You can't believe in anything you knew
When was the last time that you cried

Don't delay you're in today
But tomorrow is another dream
Sunday's star is Monday's scar
Out of date before you're even seen

At the top so quick to flop
You're so new but rotting in decay
Like butterfly so quick to die
But you're only looking for today

Everyone just gets on top of you
The pain begins to eat your pride
You can't believe in anything you knew
When was the last time that you cried
Looking for today

Glamour trip so soon to slip
Easy come but oh how quick it goes
Ten foot tall but what a fall
Hard to open yet so easy to close
Front page news but so abused
You just want to hide yourself away
Overpaid, but soon you fade
Because you're only looking for today
Looking for today

Sorcerers of madness
Selling me their time
Child of god sitting in the sun
Giving peace of mind
Fictional seduction
On a black-snow sky
Sadness kills the superman
Even fathers cry

Of all the things I value most of all
I look inside myself and see
My world and know that it is good
You know that I should

Superstitious century
Didn't time go slow
Separating sanity
Watching children grow
Synchronated undertaker
Spiral skies
Silver ships on plasmic oceans
In disguise

Of all the things I value most in life
I see my memories and feel their warmth
And know that they are good
You know that I should

Watching eyes of celluloid
Tell you how to live
Metaphoric motor-replay
Give, give, give!
Laughter kissing love
Is showing me the way
Spiral city architect
I build, you pay

Of all the things I value most of all
I look upon my earth and feel the warmth
And know that it is good
You know that I should