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Riff: Black Sabbath – “God is Dead?”

Jun 12, 2013

To safeguard my philosophy/Until my dying breath/I transfer from reality/Into a living death

from God is Dead? lyrics by Black Sabbath

Another Paranoid war-horse, er pig, story goes Ozzy came up with the blasphemous declaration during a daydream about the religious horrors of 9/11, while Geezer Butler tied in a Nietzsche thread to flesh out the backwater sermon in full, masterfully thickened by Rick Rubin and shockingly pro-Big G.

  • Anthony

    I agree with comments that have been made here. If you take society as a whole, and see what humans are doing to each other, comparing it to what the bible and other religions will tell you, even the most knowledgeable, in theology, sometimes wonder if we haven’t been left to destroy ourselves. Because of how far away from the at best basics that most religions do teach.

Riff by Gavin Paul

Gavin Paul is SONGLYRICS' Editor-in-Chief. Chicago-bred, New York-sculpted, his words and ideas have appeared in publications ranging from Spin and Rolling Stone to The Chicago Sun-Times and Arborist News.

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