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To: Tabitha Soren
Black Sabbath wrote this song 30 years ago for their 3rd album and performed it live on their 1999 tour.

After Forever/Black Sabbath

Have you ever thought about your soul - can it be saved?
Or perhaps you think that when you're dead you just stay in your grave
Is God just a thought within your head or is he a part of you?
Is Christ just a name that you read in a book when you were in school?

When you think about death do you lose your breath or do you keep your cool?
Would you like to see the Pope on the end of a rope - do you think he's a fool?
Well I have seen the truth, yes I've seen the light and I've changed my ways
And I'll be prepared when you're lonely and scared at the end of our days

Could it be you're afraid of what your friends might say
If they knew you believe in God above?
They should realize before they criticize
That God is the only way to love

Is your mind so small that you have to fall
In with the pack wherever they run
Will you still sneer when death is near
And say they may as well worship the sun?

I think it was true it was people like you that crucified Christ
I think it is sad the opinion you had was the only one voiced
Will you be so sure when your day is near, say you don't believe?
You had the chance but you turned it down, now you can't retrieve

Perhaps you'll think before you say that God is dead and gone
Open your eyes, just realize that he's the one
The only one who can save you now from all this sin and hate
Or will you still jeer at all you hear?
Yes, I think it's too late.

107 posted on 05/05/2002 9:48:29 PM PDT by NapaCA
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To: NapaCA
What I took away from the treatment Black Sabbath got during the 1970's was that they publicaly crucified by people who never took the time read the words they were singing... Black Sabbath was a goof, all they tried to do was find a niche in the rock 'n' roll market... all they did was say, "hey, this is what evil looks like, when you see it, run away as fast as you can or you'll be doomed to eternal damnation"... but the idiot mass media didn't bother to look into what Balck Sabbath were saying, they, as usual, had their own agenda... after awhile, Black Sabbath figured "screw it, if they're not going to pay attention to what we're really saying, let's turn the tables and make the joke on them"... and so Black Sabbath played up to the lie propogated by an idiot mass media... and yes, Ozzy once had a substance abuse problem... let those without sin cast the first stone...
112 posted on 05/05/2002 9:59:47 PM PDT by NapaCA
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