Wicked World

Album: Black Sabbath (1970)
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  • The world today is such a wicked place
    Fighting going on between the human race
    People go to work just to earn their bread
    While people just across the sea are counting their dead

    A politician's job, they say is very high
    For he has to choose who's gotta go and die
    They can put a man on the Moon quite easy
    While people here on Earth are dying of old diseases

    A woman goes to work every day after day
    She just goes to work just to earn her pay
    Child sitting crying by a life that's harder
    He doesn't even know who is his father Writer/s: Michael Butler, Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, William Ward
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, T.R.O. INC.
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Comments: 4

  • Luna Loud from Royal Woods, MichiganIt's a good thing his pickup failed. There's NO WAY Tony could have recorded all of those heavy-ass riffs on a 'Strat (believe me, I've tried!)
  • Dan Gillespy from Courtenay BcOne of the best Black Sabbath songs ever recorded.
  • Fanny Santos from U.s.a.This song is one of the best I've ever heard. I love the fusion of Rock and Jazz in it. Long live Black Sabbath!
  • Ricky from Killie, United KingdomThis was the first song recorded by the band for their debut album and the only song where Tony Iommi used a Fender Stratocaster. The Strat was his main guitar but the pick up failed after the recording of this track. He used his back up guitar (a Gibson SG) for the rest of the album and never changed back afterwards.

    The track was included on the US version of the album but was originally only a b-side to Evil Woman in the UK and Europe till the 1996 remastered CD added it to the album proper.
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