Paranoid by Viking Cowboys

Paranoid by Black Sabbath,cover by Viking Cowboys recorded 2011 with my ex-band Released: 1970 Artist: Black Sabbath Album: Paranoid Genres: Heavy metal, Proto-punk, Rock .............................LYRICS....................... Follow Black Sabbath on Bandsintown “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 Follow Black Sabbath on Bandsintown Writer(s): John Osbourne, Tony Iommi, William Ward, Terence Michael Butler This song was written about bassist Geezer Butler, how he felt depressed, when he was a teenager, and thought that he was going insane. “Paranoid“ was the first single Black Sabbath wrote themselves. Bassist Geezer Butler told in interview for Guitar World magazine in March 2004, “A lot of the ’Paranoid’ album was written around the time of our first album, ’Black Sabbath’. ...The Song ’Paranoid’ was written as an afterthought.“ The title of this song gave the title to the entire album. It was supposed to be called “War Pigs“, and the song should have been just a filler song, but the single had become very popular, and the record label decided to name the album “Paranoid“. And “paranoid“ sounded less offensive that “war pigs“ though the cover of the album depicts a pig. Megadeth made a cover of this song on their Black Sabbath tribute album “Nativity In Black“ (1994). This song was performed by Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Phil Collins, and Pino Palladino (of The Who) in Buckingham Palace during the Queen’s Golden Jubilee in 2002. AZLyrics B Black Sabbath Lyrics album: “Paranoid“ (1970)