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This is the debut album of the legendary rock band Black Sabbath, the album is considered the first heavy metal record of all time and the track “Black Sabbath” is also known as the first doom metal song in history. It reached number 8 on the UK Albums Charts and number 23 on the Billboard charts. The album primarily received bad reviews, Rolling Stone’s Lester Bangs described it as:
a shuck – despite the murky song titles and some inane lyrics that sound like Vanilla Fudge paying doggerel tribute to Aleister Crowley, the album has nothing to do with spiritualism, the occult, or anything much except stiff recitations of Cream clichés.
Because of this, Black Sabbath, many years later, received positive ‘retrospective reviews.’
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Society finds it easier to hold back the thoughts and the emotions of people that they know they are stronger than. It gives them a sense of accomplishment knowing that they have power over them.
This line is speaking from the person being held back, knowing that he does not have the ability to defend himself and finds it hard to express himself.
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Or red
See, we all in this box together
Oh yeah, Oh yeah
The world is like a coloring book
To get the whole picture each other it took
So André 3000 – Crayon Song
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He uses the crayon colors not only as colors but as metaphors for people. He is saying whether your black, white, yellow, brown, it doesn’t matter. We were all placed in this world together and we have to deal with everybody we come in contact with, deal with the good traits and the bad ones as well.
The world is where we shine in our own lights, but to create the place we are now, we had to get some help from somebody, whether it be a person giving you a job or your parents giving you the gift of life. It took all the little things to get the BIG picture.
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This is a reference to the NBA team in the city of Phoenix, the Phoenix Suns, and with the song was about throwbacks, the Suns had Charles Barkley at the time.
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This is a subtle reference to the football team in the city of San Diego, the Chargers. Their logo is of a lightning bolt their helmets and shoulders.
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Play on words with the words “rap” and “wrap”. He raps about guns and violence sometimes in his songs. Smith and Wesson is also a brand of gun, so Joey not only kills his competition with his raps, he wraps their lives up with the literal bullets as well as the verbal ones.
its supposed to be a rap but he ´s forced to packa tool cuz “words aint nuff to be defdending us”
Joey has made many references to Smith and Wessons before, but also to his words being a weapon. By taking it as the word “rap”, we can compare it to his line in F A Rap Critic: “Use the mic as my weapon, reload my mind, fire my thoughts and then I recoil these lines”. He is going to use is words as weapons, and make a rap. Smith and Wesson can relate to the microphone as well, as they are both metal instruments, so when he picks the mic up its going to be a rap.