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There's a hell of a lot to choose from, but we've (somehow) rounded up the best Black Sabbath lyrics Geezer Butler has ever written...
There are many reasons why Geezer Butler is one of rock’s greatest legends. His bass work in Black Sabbath, as so finely demonstrated in the opening minute of N.I.B., would help lay the sonic foundation for generations to come. But it was also his lyrics, being the band’s principal wordsmith during the Ozzy Osbourne-fronted years, that would so menacingly furnace satanic imagery into their game-changing apocalyptic blues.
Here’s a look at his greatest lyrics through those ground-breaking years…
Whatever it was that visited a young Geezer Butler tucked up in bed that fateful night, the world is in its debt. “I was sleeping and got woken up by a weird presence in the room,” he once told this writer. “It really freaked me out, I could see this dark thing staring at me from the end of the bed!” The devilish encounter would inspire the words to Black Sabbath’s infamous self-titled anthem, which Geezer later revealed was co-written with Ozzy before the singer decided to take a backseat from penning lyrics. Coupled with Tony Iommi’s earth-consuming riffs, it was the song that ultimately give birth to an entire genre of loud, unholy noise.
On the closing track of stoner metal blueprint Master Of Reality, Geezer Butler was describing Hell on earth – devastated by pollution, shields of darkness and eternal voids at the hands of human interference and warfare. Ahead of its time in terms of environmental awareness, it’s more than likely witnessing Birmingham’s smog-belching factories first-hand as a child had a part to play in his logic.