Album: Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973)

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• Sorcerers of madness
  Selling me their time
  Child of god sitting in the sun
  Giving peace of mind
  Fictional seduction
  On a black snow sky
  Sadness kills the superman
  Even fathers cry
  
  Of all the things I value most of all
  I look inside myself and see
  My world and know that it is good
  You know that I should
  
  Superstitious century
  Didn't time go slow
  Separating sanity
  Watching children grow
  Synchronated undertaker
  Spiral skies
  Silver ships on plasmic oceans
  In disguise
  
  Of all the things I value most in life
  I see my memories and feel their warmth
  And know that they are good
  You know that I should
  
  Watching eyes of celluloid
  Tell you how to live
  Metaphoric motor-replay
  Give, give, give
  Laughter kissing love is showing me the way
  Spiral city architect
  I build, you pay
  
  Of all the things I value most of all
  I look upon my earth and feel the warmth
  And know that it is good
  You know that I should
  You know that I should
  You know that I should
  You know that I should
  You know that I should Writer/s: MICHAEL BUTLER, OZZY OSBOURNE, TONY IOMMI, WILLIAM WARD
  Publisher: T.R.O. INC.
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 9

• Sabfan from SydneyI’ve always felt it was a continuation of A National Acrobatic. The spiral is DNA and it can only have 1 designer (architect), God, who looks upon his work & sees good. I’m not religious except for when I listen to Gezeer’s lyrics.
• Luna Loud from Royal Woods, MichiganGary Lizzard from Home: I wasn't around back then, but according to setlist.fm, this song was played at least a few times on their '73-74 tour.
  
  According to genius.com well, one section says the "Spiral" is DNA strands, i.e. people's genes. An architect is someone who builds, constructs, or designs. Who designs people's genes? It's God. The song is about the man upstairs. And life. And the things the narrator values in life. And they make him feel good. These lyrics along with the major progression of a lot of the riffs (some of the melodies are kind of dark, it's a really complex song, mind you, with a lot of parts) make this one of Sabbath's more positive, more upbeat songs. Awesome.
• Mal from EarthSpiral Architect, the Great Fashioner of the Universe. His language is mathematics, in this instance Phi, the Golden Ratio. Used to be a common belief amongst many occultists, now reached mainstream attention (Google Fibonacci Sequence).
• Spanish Sid from ManhattanI always got the impression that the song is about a dying man reliving his memories before he dies. The lyric “Of all the things I value most in life, I see my memories and feel their warmth and know that they are good” in particular stuck out to me as it comes across as somebody reliving their fondest memories throughout the years and reminiscing on the accomplishments and good times they had during their time on earth.
• Gary Lizzard from HomeThis is one of my favorites for sure. Black Sabbath had plenty of overplayed hits, but I don't think this song was played live until their "reunion tours". After hearing War Pigs and Iron Man about a million times, play this in your basement and enjoy a real treat. Those guys were probably really proud of that song - the fun of putting out fresh music which was every bit as good, if not better, than anything else they had ever written to date.
• Cindy from Pure DeliriumAttention people (or haters) who call Sabbath Satan worshippers...listen to this song!! Whenever i listen to this song I think of ozzy sitting cross legged in a field of grass and flowers, looking up at the sky, eyes closed and the wind blowing gently through his beautiful long (70's hair haha) ...ahhhhhhhh Sabbath freakin Rules!!!
• Kieran from Brisbane, AustraliaSome of the most amazing lyrics I've ever heard. Sheer poetry!
• Laura from Perth, Australiagreat song---the beginning guitar and the drone of the bass seems to reflect a bit of The Who's 'pinball wizard'...the beginning part particularly.
• Andrea from Savona, Italyi'm not that sure about it, cause i heard in an ozzy's interview that he called geezer by phone asking him if he had any new lyric for a song but geezer had not.
  just one hour later geezer phoned ozzy back and red the spiral's lyric.
  
  ozzy was impressed and asked geezer where the hell he cought it. geezer stated that he wrote it lying down on his garden by the time between their the two phone calls. ozzy laughing said: can i buy you garden?

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