![]() ![]() Whatever the case, this song is Sabbath at their lyrical best, never shying away from the darkest parts of life, but leaving the door open to the light - the listener can take exactly as much as they want. This is good poetry, being focused, having something to say, but remaining open enough to allow the reader to collaborate and have a part in determining the meaning of the piece. However, it remains vague whether the lyrics are another cautionary tale describing an overdose, with the final verse describing awakening in heaven or the hospital, or merely a poetic telling of a vivid and terrifying opium dream and return to reality, or perhaps even a poetic description of the “living death” of addiction and rebirth of kicking. It’s basically a vague dissertation on opium and its derivatives - the “flower” lyric could denote weed, but since weed has never killed anyone, and since Sabbath have never been shy about sharing the specifics of their debaucheries, it is quite safe to narrow down the drug in question for this song. This gift was not reliable (koffCHANGESkoff), but when their lyrics are good, they are fantastic: My opinion on the funkiness of this beat was borne out by its use in this.Ĭontinuing the theme of Sabbath emerging fully formed, Behind the Wall of Sleep, besides being the slightly modified title of an otherwise-unrelated Lovecraft story, embodies the band’s capacity for truly poetic lyrics. The drumming in this song, like The Wizard, also warrants mention, this time for its funkiness - indeed, the whole song is syncopated as hell, though I didn’t question it while I inexplicably felt like dancing in my bus seat while this tune played on my walkman it remains heavy as fuck. ![]() According to Popoff, there is nothing more to it than that. The answer, as it turns out, is financial: There was some sort of arrangement where somebody made a little more money or a little less money if the album had x number of tracks on it, so names were given to sections of songs for bookkeeping purposes. Black Sabbath - Wasp/Behind the Wall of Sleepįirst, a note on song titles: The track lists on the Sabbath cassettes and CDs that I owned were always confusing to me - what is Wasp? A Bit of Finger? They put these titles on the thing, but there’s no musical passage that you can clearly identify as being its own separate song here. ![]()
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