Lyrics to
Hand Of Doom

This version of Hand Of Doom was released by Black Sabbath in 1970.

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What you gonna do? Time’s caught up with you
Now you wait your turn, you know there’s no return
Take your written rules, you join the other fools
Turn to something new, now it’s killing you

First it was the bomb, Vietnam napalm
Disillusioning, you push the needle in
From life you escape, reality’s that way
Colours in your mind satisfy your time

Oh you, you know you must be blind
To do something like this
To take the sleep that you don’t know
You’re giving Death a kiss,
Oh, little fool now

Your mind is full of pleasure
Your body’s looking ill
To you it’s shallow leisure
So drop the acid pill, don’t stop to think now

You’re having a good time baby
But that won’t last
Your mind’s all full of things
You’re living too fast
go out enjoy yourself
Don’t bottle it in
You need someone to help you
To stick the needle in, yeah

Now you know the scene, your skin starts turning green
Your eyes no longer seeing life’s reality
Push the needle in, face death’s sickly grin
Holes are in your skin, caused by deadly pin

Head starts spinning ’round, you fall down to the ground
Feel your body heave, Death’s hands starts to weave
It’s too late to turn, you don’t want to learn
Price of life you cry, now you’re gonna die!

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About Lyrics and Hand Of Doom by Black Sabbath

When you decide to study the lyrics to Hand Of Doom, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1970 song by Black Sabbath. Some of the lyrics to Hand Of Doom have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Black Sabbath and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Hand Of Doom if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Hand Of Doom" means the words set to the music of Hand Of Doom, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Black Sabbath. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Hand Of Doom and the lyrics to Hand Of Doom are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Black Sabbath who came here looking just for the lyrics to Hand Of Doom, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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