Lyrics to
Swinging The Chain

This version of Swinging The Chain was released by Black Sabbath in 1978.

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It’s against my uniform
To be a civil judge
All the songs are history now
`Bout rock stars and their grudge
Let us cast our minds back
To thirty years or more
You took up all the vandals
Will Hitler beat `em all?

And we’re sad and sorry
Really sorry that it happened that way
Yes we’re sad and sorry
But why’d you have to treat us that way?

Compare ourselves with others
And cover them in sin
Oh, God what a terrible
A terrible state we’re in
There must be some way out of here
A comprimise that’s right
If we cannot work it out
We’re gonna have to fight

Yes we’re sad and sorry
Really sorry that it happened that way
Yes we’re sad and sorry
We cannot go on in those days

I’m talking about my brothers
Yeah, I’m talking `bout sisters as well
I wish you good luck
Good luck!

Oh, but the world’s still on fire
Chain the hope you take on, liar
This fire
We’re on fire, we’re on fire, yeah…

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About Lyrics and Swinging The Chain by Black Sabbath

The lyrics for Swinging The Chain are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1978 song by Black Sabbath. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Swinging The Chain have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Swinging The Chain - Black Sabbath and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Swinging The Chain by Black Sabbath in multiple ways. 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 Swinging The Chain" means the words set to the music of Swinging The Chain, 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 Swinging The Chain and the lyrics to Swinging The Chain 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 Swinging The Chain, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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