BIOGRAPHY:... John Michael Osbourne was born on December 3, 1948. He was born to John Thomas Osbourne
and his wife Lillian. John Thomas Osbourne was a professional toolmaker and Lillian worked in a car factory.
John Michael Osbourne became known as Ozzy Osbourne. While
attending grammar school, he was given the nickname ‘Ozzy’ because it is a short abbreviation for his surname.
Ozzy was born into a very poor family. Ozzy only owned one
pair of pants, one shirt, and one jacket. His apartment had no indoor plumbing and no indoor bathroom. He even slept in one
bed with all five of his siblings: two brothers named Paul and Tony, and three sisters named Jean, Iris, and Gillian.
At the age of 15, Ozzy dropped out of school to engage in the
world of work. He began his working life as a plumber’s mate. This job didn’t last very long, though. Shortly
after, Ozzy started working in a slaughterhouse, where he had partaken in the slaughtering of approximately 250 cattle a day.
Ozzy became tired of this, so after a few months, he quit and was given a job in the Lucas Car Factory with his mom. Together,
they tested car horns.
The income that Ozzy was making was very unsatisfactory, so
he turned to a life of crime. He robbed homes and clothing stores wearing gloves that had the fingers cut out of them. Thanks
to this, Ozzy was always caught. He spent a lot of time in prison. The longest sentence he ever had to serve was 6 weeks in
Winston Green Prison for burglary. It was in this period of time that Ozzy gave himself a few tattoos using a needle and graphite.
These tattoos include the word ‘Thanks’ on his palm, needles on his arm, the now famous ‘O-Z-Z-Y’
across the knuckles of his left hand, and a smiley face on each of his knee caps.
Ozzy’s musical influence was the Beatles. He admired
the band and he became very mesmerized at the way that they were able to command an audience. This fed Ozzy’s desire
to be disciples of them. He soon decided that he wanted to be just like them.
Ozzy got his first shot at music while he was walking down
the street one day and approached an old friend who had just formed a band that was named Approach. The band needed a singer
and Ozzy felt that he was the right man for the job. He ran home and, somehow, got his father to buy him a $50 amplifier and
microphone. Approach was more of a rhythm type band, in which Ozzy didn’t fancy, so he quit that band and tried out
another one named Music Machine, which he also quit. Ozzy and a friend, Terrance Butler, formed a band of their own named
Rare Breed. The band was, basically, going nowhere, so Ozzy deemed it necessary to put an ad in a local newspaper which said:
'OZZY ZIG – VOCALIST – REQUIRES BAND – OWNS OWN P.A' Two men, Tony Iommi and Bill Ward, saw this ad and
were interested. The two had their own band, which was named The Rest (it was later changed to Mythology). Tony went to the
address on the ad and found out that this Ozzy was the same Ozzy that he used to beat up on the playground when he was young.
The four combined to form a band that was called Polka Tulk. The band was a mixture of blues and jazz with a ‘hard edge’.
The band eventually changed its name to Earth.
The problem with the band was that it wasn’t getting
enough recognition. One day in 1969, Terrence went to a local theater and watched a horror movie called ‘Black Sabbath’.
After viewing this, Terrence said to himself, ‘Why would people pay good money just to get the crap scared out of them?’
Later on, he asked the band this question. After talking it over, they all decided on changing the band’s image to be
more ‘doomsey’ and ‘dark’. They also decided on changing the band’s name to Black Sabbath. This
was the beginning of a ‘new’ band.
Black Sabbath’s first album (self titled) saw light on
Friday, February 13, 1970 under the Vertigo label. It was recorded in 8 hours on two four-track machines. The album only cost
about $1,200 to make. Ozzy took a copy of the album home one-day and said, “Look, dad! It’s me on a piece of plastic!”
After listening to the album, John Osbourne, Senior only gave his son one response: “Are you sure you’re only
smoking cigarettes?”
With the release of their first album, the band’s audience
began to grow rapidly. Terrence became known as Geezer while the rest of the band became known for their ‘dark’
music. One night, Ozzy and the band were approached by a self-proclaimed witch and were asked to play at a satanic ceremony.
The band declined the offer. Feeling deprived at this, the witch cast a spell on the band. Being paranoid, Ozzy asked his
dad to make aluminum crosses for each member of the band to wear as protection. Bill Ward said that he is the only member
who still has the original cross. The cross Ozzy wears now is made of 14 carat gold.
In 1977, a few things happened to Ozzy that made him very depressed.
Ozzy became very sick of the way Tony was taking control of the band. Also, Ozzy was heavily addicted to drugs and was constantly
‘whacked out of his mind’. To add to his sorrow, this year also marked the death of his father. This put Ozzy
in a deep emotional swell. To escape from the emotional pain, Ozzy decided to leave Black Sabbath. He rejoined the group in
1978 to make a new album, Never say Die. Ozzy’s excessive drug use forced the band to fire him.
For nearly 6 months, Ozzy spent every day in a hotel room drinking
and getting high. He was in deep sorrow over leaving the band. Ozzy was losing control of his life until one day, Sharon Arden
(the daughter of Ozzy’s manager, Don Arden) came to Ozzy’s hotel room to collect a debt. Sharon saw the sad state
Ozzy was in and she wanted to help him get back on his feet again.
After creating a band named Blizzard of Ozz (it was originally
named Law, but the name was changed after the band played a few gigs), Ozzy went in search for a record label to sign him.
As weeks went by, CBS agreed to sign him for $65,000. CBS wanted to have a conference so Ozzy could meet the ‘top guys’
working for them. Well, CBS wasn’t very interested in Ozzy because they felt that they had better artists under their
label. Sharon suggested to Ozzy that he should make a ‘big bang’ when he entered the corporate meeting. She had
the idea of Ozzy walking into the room and throwing 3 white doves in the air. It was to be a ‘peace greeting’.
The ‘greeting’ wasn’t very ‘peaceful’, though. Ozzy had too much booze that day. When he walked
into the room, he sat on a little girl’s lap, threw 2 of the doves into the air and he actually bit the head off of
the third one. Everyone in the room was shocked at this. Newspaper tabloids heard about this and branded Ozzy as 'insane'
and 'the madman'. The Humane Society of America tried to ban all Ozzy performances in the United States and he was banned
from ever entering the CBS building again (but they decided on releasing his first album, Blizzard of Ozz, anyway).
In the early 1980’s, Ozzy made a name for himself by
partaking in a number of different events. At the end of shows, he threw animal hearts, brains, intestines, and so forth,
at the crowd. In 1982, Ozzy was playing a concert in Des Moines, Iowa, when someone threw a live bat onto the stage. The bat
was stunned by the light. Ozzy, thinking the bat was plastic, picked it up and bit off its head. The bat started flapping
its wings and Ozzy found out that the bat was, indeed, real. "Ozzy Osbourne: the man who bit off more than he can chew", he
once said. "It took me a lot of water just to down that fucking bat's head, let me tell you. It's still stuck in my fucking
throat after all these years." Ozzy was then rushed to the hospital to receive rabies shots. "People all over the world say,
'You're the guy who kills creatures? You still do it? You do it every night?' It happened fucking once, for Christ's sake."
Besides those incidents, there were a few others including a time Ozzy got drunk and shot every cat in his house (Thelma,
his first wife, came home one day and found Ozzy lying under the piano in a white suit with a shotgun in one hand and a bloody
knife in the other).
The year 1982 also saw a few other incidents in Ozzy’s
life. On February 12, Ozzy was in San Antonio, Texas when he, for some reason, dressed as a woman and walked around taking
pictures. Well, Ozzy was drunk and didn't comprehend what he was doing. During film reloading, he felt the need to relieve
himself. He urinated on a half-knocked down wall that turned out to be a part of the Alamo itself. Ozzy was fined, threw in
jail, and was banned from entering the city again until 1992 when the ban was lifted. (Ozzy has been kicked out of other cities
for various reasons and lengths of time including the cities of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Las Vegas, Nevada) On July
4, Ozzy married Sharon on the tropical island of Maui (this was his second marriage. He was once wedded to a woman named Thelma,
but because of his excessive drug use, the two divorced in 1981). Sharon later became his manager. Later on, Randy Rhoads,
Ozzy’s guitarist and personal friend, died in a plane crash. (Little known fact: Ozzy saved a deaf man from the burning
house in which the plane crashed into) The album Tribute (1987) was made in tribute to the late guitarist.
The music of Ozzy Osbourne is as controversial as the man’s
legendary past. Between 1985 and 1990, 3 different sets of parents (two from Georgia and one from California) attempted to
sue Ozzy, claiming that his song ‘Suicide Solution’ (from the album Blizzard of Ozz) contained hidden messages
that ordered their teenage sons to take their own lives. The song was ‘anti-alcohol’ and ‘anti-suicide’
but it did contain some lyrics like ‘Where to hide-suicide’s the only way out’. Nonetheless, Ozzy prevailed
in each of the three suits. Ozzy himself was going to appear in an episode of 'Miami Vice', but was pulled because of the
allegations.
A few of Ozzy’s album covers were also controversial.
His album Speak of the Devil (1982) which shows raspberries pouring out of Ozzy’s mouth, was first released with a sticker
covering his mouth because the raspberries looked like clotted blood. Ozzy found out that the album was released with the
sticker and he recalled every copy, then he had the album released in the way that he wanted it to look. The original cover
for his 1986 album The Ultimate Sin was pulled because it had three crucifixes in the background and the girl on the cover
itself wasn’t wearing any pants. No Rest for the Wicked (1988) originally had a cover that showed Ozzy wearing a crown
of thorns and the little girls on the cover were all holding crucifixes.
Speaking on his musical career, Ozzy has collaborated with
many different artists. He has done songs with many groups such as Alice Cooper, Therapy? (This is the way the group’s
name is spelled), and Miss Piggy (of the Muppets). The year 1988 saw Ozzy joining Lita Ford in a duet called ‘Close
my eyes Forever’. Ozzy and a group named Coal Chamber got together and made a remake of Peter Gabriel’s ‘Shock
the Monkey’. Ozzy himself has been on a few soundtracks as well with the songs ‘Party with the Animals’
(from the motion picture 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer’), ‘Walk on Water' (from the motion picture ‘Beavis and
Butt-head Do America’), and ‘Pictures of Matchstick Men (from the motion picture ‘Howard Stern’s Private
Parts’). Ozzy, however, only had one number one hit-single, ‘Shot in the Dark’, from the album The Ultimate
Sin (the girl in the video was actually a cheerleader for the Los Angeles Rams, a football team).
There has also been, as Ozzy once said, “a little insanity”
in his life. Ozzy has attempted suicide multiple times in his life, starting as early as age 14. He did this “just to
see what it felt like”. On August 12, 1989, Ozzy played a peace festival in Russia. When he returned home a week after
the show, Ozzy found a case of Russian vodka that someone gave him at the show. Ozzy drank the four bottles and became heavily
drunk. He walked up to Sharon, placed his hands around her throat and said, in exact words, “We decided that you have
to go.” Sharon panicked and called the police. Ozzy woke up the next day in a jail cell. The cops said to Ozzy, “You
were arrested for attempted murder of your wife”. Ozzy replied by saying, “You gotta be kidding-I don’t
remember a thing!” A court order was made that forced him to spend 3 months in a drug rehab away from his family.
“It’s ridiculous…I can’t keep doing
this. I want to stop”, Ozzy said to Sharon in the early 1990’s. After spending his entire life on the road, Ozzy
wanted to retire. She said, “Do you really wanna stop?” Ozzy said. "I go crazy. I've been doing this for so long…I've
never been able to reap the benefits of my hard work. I want to retire." So Sharon announced that Ozzy’s No More Tears
tour was going to be his last. He spent the next few years touring, then in 1994, he finally settled down. He was home for
a very short amount of time when he noticed that something was wrong. “At the end of the No More Tears tour, I got home
and I was so bored! I’d get up, open the fridge, close it, sit down, get up, open it…Sharon said, ‘What’s
going on?’ I said, ‘I’m bored’. She said, ‘You drove me crazy about retirement! You can’t
retire then unretire!’” Ozzy proved her wrong. In the mid-1990’s, Ozzy went back into the studio and created
a new album, Ozzmosis. He later started a music festival called the Ozzfest.
There were a few incidents that happened in 1997 that involved
the Ozzfest. Ozzy wanted to take the tour on the road with Marilyn Manson, a satanic rocker who is known to do strange things
on stage, which include destroying Holy bibles. Giant Stadiums in New Jersey tried to cancel a concert there because of the
appearance of Manson, but Ozzy took the state to court and won the rights to play. On June 17, in Columbus, Ohio, a riot broke
out because Ozzy didn't appear. He was having throat problems and wasn't able to show up. Angry fans broke windows, uprooted
trees, set miscellaneous things on fire, and ever flipped over a car. Ozzy made up the show on a later date.
After years of being apart, Ozzy and the original members of
Black Sabbath reunited to do their first full tour together in decades. They also made a double-live album, Reunion. Also,
on Wednesday, February 23, 2000, Black Sabbath won a Grammy award for their song ‘Iron Man’ in the ‘Best
Metal Performance’ category. (Ozzy, as a solo artist, won a Grammy in the same category in 1993 for his song ‘I
Don’t Want to Change the World’)
Ozzy Osbourne has lived a very hectic life. After all of the
things he's done, what does he have to say? " I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't
even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day. But if you've got a fantasy of Ozzy, who am I to say? I mean, if
you think I sleep upside-down in the rafters and fly around at night and bite people's throats out, then that's your thing.
But I can tell you now, all I ever wanted was for people to come to my concerts and have a good time. I don't want anyone
to harm themselves in any way, shape or form-and my intentions are good whether people want to believe it or not. I'm not
going to suddenly become a Jesus freak or anything. But I do have my beliefs and my beliefs are certainly not satanic".
And if Ozzy could go back, would he change anything? "I wouldn't
change a thing because it's all exiting stuff. If that's the way I gotta make my name, so be it. I'm not ashamed of one thing
I've done 'cause I've kept rock and roll alive and I'm proud of that."
QUOTES
"All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock,
I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the
stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain
type of music?" (Ozzy Osbourne, Guitar World Issue 37, 2000)
"I can honestly say, all the bad things that ever
happened to me were directly, directly attributed to drugs and alcohol. I mean, I would never urinate at the Alamo at nine
o'clock in the morning dressed in a woman's evening dress sober." (Ozzy Osbourne, MTV News Online, 1992)
"...the other day, I went to a chiropractor. He's
just a regular chiropractor. Whenever I meet someone who doesn't know me, they say, 'Oh you're the guy who bites the heads
off everything.' I get kind of cheesed off with it, but at least they remember. The thing that pisses me off is that that's
not what I'm about. If that's what you think Ozzy Osbourne's about, then you're way off." (Ozzy Osbourne, Launch.com,
10/30/1998)
"I love you all. I love you more than life itself,
but you're all fucking mad." (Ozzy Osbourne, "the Osbournes" television show, 2002)
"I have no regrets except that I wasn't up to keep
Randy (Rhoads) from getting on that plane." (Ozzy Osbourne, Guitar World Issue 37, 2000)
"I've had every known chemical--cocaine, booze--and
tobacco is the hardest one in the world for me to quit. You watch old flicks? It's suggestion by looking at something: You
see a cigarette, and it makes you want to smoke!" (Ozzy Osbourne, Launch.com 8/10/2003)
"I miss the lack of melody [in current music] as well.
I mean, a lot of people think I'm crazy for liking Creed and I like them purely because they sing! I mean, the singer of Creed
sings like the guy from Pearl Jam, very close kind of voice. But I like the fact that Creed sing. I don't care if they're
a Bible band, Satan band…" (Ozzy Osbourne, MTV.com, 2002)
"The down side of being outrageous is that you have
to go around explaining your fucking self to people. If you're too cocky, somebody might just pull out a fucking gun and cock
it and blow your fucking face off. You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's
a dangerous world." (Ozzy Osbourne, Rolling Stone Online, May 1997)
"Here's the thing. I always hear that whole 'metal
is dead' crap. The truth of the matter is that when we started the Ozzfest, media-wise, yes, metal was dead. But as far as
the kids went, it was still huge. It was just that radio and MTV decided it wasn't in vogue with what they wanted to do at
the time, so the average person didn't hear too much about it. That's why when it comes to picking the new acts each summer,
we have people out there on the internet and in the clubs looking for good music and finding bands that people are excited
about. I want to know what the kids are into, because I don't trust the industry." (Ozzy Osbourne, Guitar World Issue
37, 2000)
"I'm about caring, I'm about people, and I'm about
entertaining people. I'm a family man. A husband. A father. I've been a lot of other things over the years, which we don't
really want to talk about. I'm always working on trying to better myself, you know? I think that that is an ongoing thing
with me. I think I'll do that for the rest of my life. I'm always thinking of what I can do today to better my life." (Ozzy
Osbourne, Launch.com 10/30/1998)
"I kept hearing that metal is dead and Ozzy's dead
and people that like Ozzy are dead. I have never had an empty seat. I've always sold out, so who's saying it's all over?" (Ozzy
Osbourne, cnn.com Tuesday, May 26, 1998)
"I don't consider myself a great singer--but I have
a connection with the audience. There's the artist, and then a void and the audience; but I like to be part of the audience.
I'd like to be them, and I'd like them to be me for an hour and a half. I get criticized for being the antichrist, causing
kids to commit suicide, but that's total bullsh-t. My intentions are not that. Every year they have Halloween, and all I do
is take Halloween night out on the road every night. It's like a Halloween party every night. If that was the case on Halloween
night, the police cells would be full--everyone would have turned Satanic for the night!" (Ozzy Osbourne, Launch.com
8/10/2003)
When we did that album (Vol. 4) it was like one big
Roman orgy-we'd be in the Jacuzzi all day doing coke, and every now and then we'd get up to do a song." (Ozzy Osbourne,
Guitar World Issue 37, 2000)
"It took a lot of water to down just that fucking
bat's head, let me tell you. It's still stuck in my fucking throat, after all these years. People all over the world say,
'You're the guy who kills creatures? You still do it? You do it every night?' It happened fucking once, for Christ's sake." (Ozzy
Osbourne, Rolling Stone Online, May 1997)
"Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you
attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead!
The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years! Now, some rare fly will
fly over me, crap on my shoulder, and I'll drop dead, you know? My life story is a real-life story." (Ozzy Osbourne,
Launch.com 10/30/1998)
"I have a message for anyone coming to the Ozzfest
this summer (Summer, 2000): If you're planning to jump up onstage during my set, please do not give me any bear hugs, because
they fucking hurt. Listen to me, I'm dead serious. On the first night of last year's tour, this enormous guy jumped up onstage
and gave me a huge bear hug. He crushed 3 of my ribs and I had to do the whole tour in absolute agony. I couldn't believe
it, the first fucking show!" (Ozzy Osbourne, Guitar World Issue 37, 2000)
"I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'.
I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day. But if you've got a fantasy of Ozzy, who
am I to say? I mean, if you think I sleep upside-down in the rafters and fly around at night and bite people's throats out,
then that's your thing. But I can tell you now, all I ever wanted was for people to come to my concerts and have a good time.
I don't want anyone to harm themselves in any way, shape or form-and my intentions are good whether people want to believe
it or not. I'm not going to suddenly become a Jesus freak or anything. But I do have my beliefs and my beliefs are certainly
not satanic". (Ozzy Osbourne, Rolling Stone Online, May 1997)
"There is something fucking unbelievable about seeing
all of the fans go crazy and chanting 'Ozzy!' I would pay to see them.." (Ozzy Osbourne, askmen.com, 2002)
"When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things.
I did it (the O-Z-Z-Y tattoo across his knuckles) when I was 14. I was in jail for something. I could have had it removed,
but why? It's my trademark. People stop me and say, 'Let me have a look at your hand.'" (Ozzy Osbourne, Launch.com
10/30/1998)
"The idea of a band nowadays is 5 pretty boys, one
with a tattoo, one with a shaved head, and on and on. What the fuck is that? I mean, I like Britney Spears, I think she's
pretty, but I'm not from the Mickey Mouse Club-I'm from the Godzilla Club!" (Ozzy Osbourne, Guitar World Issue 37,
2000)
"There's not a stupidest thing--I've dressed in women's
clothes, I've dressed as a Nazi. I've gone onstage naked. I've gone on so drunk I didn't even know I did a show. I've done
so many stupid things, but it's all part of Ozzy. I never pre-planned 99.9% of the things I've done. Some were drastically
wrong, some were drastically right. I don't know if you saw the VH1 thing [VH1's Behind The Music Ozzy documentary] recently.
In one hour, it's impossible to write my life down. I come from a rather large family, three older sisters and two younger
brothers. On the documentary, they interviewed my sister and it was the first time I'd seen her in years. I've had a very,
very unique life. I often sit back and remember when I had no money--when you're in the middle of it, you get depressed thinking
it's going to last forever. All of a sudden, out of nowhere--a bolt of lightning--here I am! I'm very well-off; I've got property
all over the place, I've had a very fruitful career. But I've never had a No.1 album in America. But I've lasted several generations
and somebody says to me, "Do you notice any difference in the audience?" I've been doing it now for 30 years. Some of the
fans are older, but I've picked up new fans along the way." (Ozzy Osbourne, Launch.com 10/30/1998)
"...as you'll know, the word 'fuck' sort of is used
quite a lot in my house. Now, that's not to say, I think to say 'fuck this' or 'fuck you' a lot more, so it should be entered
into the English language, because it has a lot more impact when you say, 'I fucking hate this thing.'" (Ozzy Osbourne,
MTV.com, 2002)
"The biggest thing has been realizing how much people
really do love the early Sabbath music. People have said it in the past but I've never really believed them before. I remember
years ago when Metallica opened up for me, I went backstage and they were playing old Black Sabbath albums and I thought they
were taking the piss! They said, 'No, we really love Sabbath.' I couldn't see that at the time--because towards the end of
my time with Sabbath 20 years ago I thought what we were doing was boring and stupid, because we were boring and stupid, totally
sick of what we were doing and totally out of our brains with drink or drugs when we were playing it." (Ozzy Osbourne,
Launch.com 2/11/2000)
"I've been dictating to my son, who's helping me on
his computer. I'm spending a lot of time doing research--I've just got up to 1971, when I went crazy and dived through the
window. My life is so full of interesting stories..." (Ozzy Osbourne, Launch.com 2/11/2000)
Ozzy Osbourne Era Black Sabbath Midis Click on a button
to hear a midi
After
Forever
Black Sabbath
Behind the Wall of Sleep
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Planet Caravan
Changes
Children of the Grave
Tomorrow's Dream
Electric Funeral
Embryo
Iron Man
Iron Man I dunno what makes this one different from
the previous
Laguna Sunrise
Sweet Leaf
N.I.B.
Paranoid
Rat Salad
Snowblind
Supernaut
Symptom of the Universe
War Pigs
A couple songs
Crazy Train
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Crazy, but that's how it goes Millions of people living as foes Maybe it's not to late To
learn how to love And forget how to hate
Mental wounds not healing Life's a bitter shame I'm going off the rails on a crazy train I'm
going off the rails on a crazy train
I've listened to preachers I've listened to fools I've watched all the dropouts Who
make their own rules
One person conditioned To rule and control The media sells it And you have the role
Mental wounds still screaming Driving me insane I'm going off the rails on a crazy train I'm
going off the rails on a crazy train
I know that things are going wrong for me You gotta listen to my words Yeah
Heirs of a cold war That's what we've become Inheriting troubles I'm mentally numb
Crazy,
I just cannot bear I'm living with something That just isn't fair
Mental wounds not healing Who and what's to blame? I'm going off the rails on a crazy
train I'm going off the rails on a crazy train
Over the Mountain
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Over the mountain-take me across the sky Something in my vision-something deep inside Where
did I wander-where d'ya think I wandered to I've seen life's magic astral plane I travel through
I heard them tell me that this land of dreams was now I told them I had ridden shooting
stars and said I'd show them how
Over and over-always tried to get away Living in a daydream-only place I had to stay Fever
of a breakout burning in me miles wide People around me talking to the walls inside
I heard them tell me that this land of dreams was now I told them I had ridden shooting
stars and said I'd show them how
Don't need no astrology-it's inside of you and me You don't need a ticket to fly with me-I'm
free, yeah
Over and under-in between the ups and downs Mind on a carpet magic ride goes round and round Over
the mountain-kissing silver inlaid clouds Watching my body disappear into the crowd
Don't need no astrology-it's inside of you and me You don't need a ticket to fly with me-I'm
free, yeah
Flying High Again
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Got a crazy feeling I don't understand Gotta get away from here Feelin' like I shoulda
kept my feet on the ground Waitin' for the sun to appear
Mamma's gonna worry I been a bad bad boy No use sayin' sorry It's somethin' that I
enjoy
Cause you can't see what my eyes see (I can see it, I can see it) And you can't be inside
of me Flying high again
I can see through mountains-watch me disappear I can even touch the sky Swallowing colors
of the sound I hear Am I just a crazy guy?(You bet)
Mamma's gonna worry I been a bad bad boy No use sayin' sorry It's somethin' that I
enjoy
If you could be inside my head You'd see that black and white is read Flying high again Flying
high again Flying high again Flying high again Come on and join me
Flying high again Flying high again Flying high again Come on and join me
Daddy
thinks I'm lazy-he don't understand Never saw inside my head People think I'm crazy but I'm in demand Never heard
a thing I said
Mamma's gonna worry I've been a bad bad boy No use sayin' sorry It's somethin' I enjoy
Flying high again Flying high again Flying high again
Bark at the Moon
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Screams break the silence Waking from the dead of night Vengence is boiling He's returned
to kill the light
Then when he's found who he's looking for Listen in awe and you'll hear him
Bark at the moon
Years spent in torment Buried in a nameless grave Now he has risen Miracles would
have to save
Those that this beast is looking for Listen in awe and you'll hear him
Bark at the moon (Hey, yeah - bark at the moon)
They cursed and buried him along with shame And thought his timeless soul had gone (gone) In
empty burning hell-unholy one But now he's returned to prove them wrong (Oh no-oh yeah, baby)
Howling in shadows Living in a lunar spell He finds his heaven Spewing from the mouth
of hell
And when he finds who he's looking for Listen in awe and you'll hear him
Bark at the moon Hey yeah-Bark at the moon Hey yeah-Bark at the moon Oh, oh, oh-Bark
at the moon (Insert a long werewolf howl here)
You're No Different
How many times can you put me down Till in your heart you realize If you choose to criticise You
choose your enemies?
Everything that I say and do In your eyes is always wrong Tell me where do I belong In
a sick society?
You're no different to me, yeah You're no different No different to me
Look at yourself instead o' looking at me With accusation in your eyes Do you want me
crucified For my profanity?
Concealing your crimes behind a grandeur of lies Tell me where do I begin? If you think
you're without sin The first to cast the stone
You're no different to me, yeah You're no different No different to me You're no different
to me, yeah You're no different No different to me
Can't you see - can't you see? You're no different to me
Won't you see - won't you see? You're no different to me
Living my life in a way that I choose You say I should apologise Is that envy in your
eyes Reflecting jealousy?
Tell me the truth and I'll admit to my guilt If you'll try to understand But is that
blood that's on your hand From your democracy?
You're no different to me, yeah You're no different No different to me You're no different
to me, yeah You're no different No different to me
