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It’s almost a preach to any young person in the world. Don’t worry about death or problems or anything because that will only hinder you later on in life. You have to live in the right now, not in the past, because what if there is no tomorrow or no next time? You’re stuck knowing you wasted your life on trivial subjects.
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This refers to how most things in life start from nothing and you have to build it from the ground up, whether it’s a relationship, a business, or just anything in life such as an idea. It all starts as a dream, but with the work ethic it ends in reality.
You get to keep the gold that falls Black Sabbath – Heaven and Hell
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Golden halls are the halls you walk through on your way to heaven.
This illustrates perfectly the past 2 verses: you live your whole life thinking that the bad you did was actually good, but when the time comes for you to go to heaven, you realize that the walls are crumbling, “the gold that falls”, that you were living an illusion.
She's a magical, mystical woman
Lady Evil, evil in my mind
She's the queen of the night Black Sabbath – Lady Evil
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She is a very cruel lady who will love you in the beginning but will only set out to hurt you, and succeeds in the end. The person is trying to warn men about her evil ways and how she may seem like the women of the night, she isn’t the women off your life.
Look out! The world is spinning round and round and round!
Look out! The sun is going black, black!
Look out! It's never never never coming back, look out! Black Sabbath – Children of the Sea
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Can't remember when we came so close to love before
Hold on, good things never last
Nothing's in the past, it always seems to come again
Again and again, again and again, and again Black Sabbath – Neon Knights
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On a nation so brave and so proud Black Sabbath – Headless Cross
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The plague that ravaged the village in England which the song talks about had people that believed all of it happened because people in the village were believing in Satanic beliefs. Everybody in the town died hence “no escaping from the power of Satan”.
At the headless cross
Look to the headless cross Black Sabbath – Headless Cross
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This song is based on an old story of a plague in England back in the Middle Ages. Everybody got sick and the people believed it was happening because people were worshiping the Devil and were practicing his beliefs. Everyone in the town ended up dead, hence “where will you run to”, because you cannot escape death.
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This could mean they are a great duo, as power and pain can ruin anybody’s life. It could be deeper saying with all the power he has, she has to deal with the pain of her father’s past and his current job in the world.
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It seems as if the line backs the quote. Money can’t buy everything, especially true love. A real woman will love you because you have a personality and can love her no matter what happens. It’s even said when you marry each other in a way that money doesn’t buy love:
Nice one