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• C.david from South GaI've loved this song since it first came out.
  Regardless of what anyone else thinks or Believes, I believe this song is directed at LUCIFER/SATAN because he plainly says "In the name of HELL who are you? in the name of HELL who are you?."
  If it was directed towards GOD he would ask "In the name of HEAVEN who are You?
• Stephannotstephen from OhioThis song is clearly mocking God. Rick Wakeman did **NOT** play the synth in the tune. sabra cadabra is one and only Wakeman played in.
• Luna Loud from Royal Woods, MichiganTo Gunmaker from Home: Thank you! For ages I've been wondering what the heck this song was about! I kind of suspected it was about some kind of dystopian future, actually.
  
  Though Rick Wakeman is definitely one of the most technically gifted keyboard players in Rock, this song is really easy to play on the keys. I guess that's because Ozzy was the one who wrote the music and lyrics. Though I can't really picture the Ozzman being that into literature, am I right?
• Gundaker from HomeGiselle Grant the Big Brother he is referring to is from the book 1984, in the book "Big Brother" is the gov't in a dystopian future where there are cameras everywhere and B.B. is always watching you, and knows everything that you do. I say "future" because the book was written In 1949. Many of the things that were written seem like predictions, many of which have come to pass since George Orwell put pen to paper and wrote what has amounted to a warning to us. You should give it a read, personally I found it kind of boring, but while reading it you can't help but get goosebumps when you think of how accurately he describes the world in which we live in today, in fact it seems as though he had actually visited our present day, and gone back to his time just to give people back then a chance to correct the future for their progeny-us.
• Sean Black from Ohio UsaThere will never be another Sabbath - there will never be another lotta things for that matter!
• Giselle Grant from Perth Australia What Izzy says is true but it’s only scratched the surface of it’s true meaning which is that the devil uses you to do that which he can not do on earth for he got cast down to earth with no body along with 1/3 of our brothers and sisters who are roaming the plane of our existence, blind to mans eyes and intentionally influence and implant evil thoughts in whoever allow it ,but you won’t be aware of it until he has finished with you and is throwing your soul into the dust and he was our big brother, if we truly knew who we are we would know what ozzy is trying to tell
• AnonymousPeople ask what the song is about and you get all these false interpretations of the song. The song is very clearly anti-religious. The song lyrics are directed at God. This should be obvious when you hear: "And when you have played enough. You'll just cast our souls. Into the dust. Into the dust." Now Who has the power to cast your soul into the dust? The one Who made it. Some say the song is directed at Lucifer but Lucifer does not have the power to send you to hell. The song very clearly speaks about God.
• Cindy from Pure DeliriumLove Ozzys vocals on this "please I beg you tell me in the name of hell who are you?"
• Roy from Granbania, MaYes Keyboardist Rick Wakeman plays the Moog synthesizer on this song. It was unusual for a hard rock band to use a Moog back then, which was thought to be a only a "Progressive" instrument. Wakeman is thought by many to be one of the most talented rock keyboardists in rock history.
• Jason from Denver, CoI often ask this of people who tell how I should live my life. The people who tell me what I should believe. Who my heros should be. I just tell them WHO ARE YOU to make ME live YOUR life???
• Knight from Rosenberg,Strange song and very dark. I was in my late teens when I heard this song and was in fear of the tone this song has. Sabbath is a group that put so many thoughts into my head and this song didn't help at all. My trust is in whiskey weed and black sabbath!!!

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