Album: Paranoid (1970)

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• Reflex in the sky
  Warn you you're gonna die
  Storm coming, you'd better hide
  From the atomic tide
  Flashes in the sky turns houses into sties
  Turns people into clay
  Radiation minds decay
  
  Robot minds of robot slaves
  Lead them to atomic rage
  Plastic flowers, melting sun
  Fading moon falls upon
  Dying world of radiation
  Victims of mad frustration
  Burning globe of obscene fire
  Like electric funeral pyre
  
  Buildings crashing down to Earth's cracking ground
  Rivers turn to wood, ice melting to flood
  Earth lies in death bed, clouds for the dead
  Terrifying rain is a burning pain
  
  Electric funeral, electric funeral
  Electric funeral, electric funeral
  
  And so, in the sky
  Shines the electric eye
  Supernatural king
  Takes earth under his wing
  Heaven's golden chorus sings
  Hell's angels flap their wings
  Evil souls fall to hell
  Ever trapped in burning cells Writer/s: John Osbourne, Terence Butler, Tony Iommi, W.T. Ward
  Publisher: T.R.O. INC.
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 9

• Stoney Cardin from Florida Us Of APearson from Hamm I don't like horror movies .,. So I do not watch them......The world is about to be like this Hope you have accepted Jesus Christ as your savior cause I'm riding back with my Savior Jesus Christ and we are gone destroy everything that hasnt accepted the simple salvation of Christ and make holy city of Jerusalem turn into gold, and spend eternity in paradise if you didn't know......like this song alot myself and Iron Man is about present much the same thing. Godbless save yourself.
• @cindy from NoIt is my first song learned on gutair!
• Thomas Trobaugh from Usa Sioux City IaIt’s great that the meaning is influenced by the band.
• Reply: Pearson From Hamm from EverywhereYou don't have to like it but in a way it kind of hypotheses a bunch of events that the most deadly animals ever, us humans, are completely capable of and would not surprise me if this song actually came to fruition
  
• Pearson from HammI don’t like this song
  Because it talks about the entire world being destroyed and the sun melting and the moon crashing into earth
  And robots walking to an atomic cemetery
  And eyes melting into blood and buildings crashing down
• Cindy from Pure DeliriumMy first learned Sabbath song on the guitar. Sabbath freakin Rules!!!
• Gavin from LouisianaI know one of the big effects used is called "wah wah", if that helps.
• Scott from Mdub, TxI thought this was going to tell me what effects are used on the guitar and vox?
• Gabe from Borger, Txgod this song is awesome! i walked into my 6th hour class and my teacher was playing this and i heard the end and couldn't bear to not know the beginning

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