Black Sabbath - Mob Rules


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1. Turn Up the Night

A rumble of thunder, I'm suddenly younger, it´s your spell

No rhyme or reason, a turn of the season, know it full well

The tongue can´t deliver, I shake and I shiver down your soul

You know what you cover, I see for another it's a story told

So get a good hold, yeah

 

A whistle of voodoo, you thought that you knew who you are

A sep'rate equation, a pencil relation, but the past gone too far

A time of suspicion, a special condition that we all know

So let it all go, yeah

 

Turn up the night

Turn up the night

Turn up the night, it feels so right

 

Night time sorrow, taken like the plane

Black will never come out, lies for the same

Evil lurks in twilight, dances in the dark

Makes you need the movement, like a fire needs a spark to burn

 

A rumble of thunder, I'm suddenly younger, it´s your spell

No rhyme or reason, or time of the season, but oh well

The tongue can´t deliver, I shake and I shiver down your soul

So get a good hold, yeah

 

Turn up the night

Turn up the night

Turn up the night, it feels so right

Gotta turn up the night

Turn up the night

Turn up the night, it feels so right

Turn up the night

Turn up the night

Turn up the night

Turn up the night

If it feels right

Turn off the light

If it feels right

Shut up the light

Turn up the night

 

2. Voodoo

Say you don't love me, you burn

You can´t refuse, but you lose, it's by me

Say you don't want me, you'll learn

Nothing you do will renew till time´s trough

 

Call me a liar, you knew

You were a fool, but that's cool, it's all right

Call me the devil, it's true

Some can't accept, but I crept inside you

 

So if a stranger calls you

Don't let him whisper his name

Cause it's voodoo, oh

 

Fade into shadow, you burn

Your fortune is free, I can see it's no good

Never look back, never turn

It's a question of time till your mine and you learn

 

So if a stranger sees you

Don't look in his eyes

'Cause he's voodoo, oh

 

Say you don't love me, you burn

You can refuse, but you'll lose, it's by me

Say you don't want me, youl learn

Nothing you do will renew, 'till time´strough

Voodoo

 

Right

Bring me your children, they'll burn

Never look back, never turn

Cry me a river, you'll learn

Voodoo

 

3. Sign of the Southern Cross

If there isn't light when no one sees

Then how can I know what you might believe

 

A story told that can't be real

Somehow must reflect the truth we feel, yeah

Fade away, fade away

Vanish into smoke

Fade away, fade away

Break the crystal ball

Oh

 

It's the sign, feels like the time

 

On a small world, west of wonder

Somewhere, nowhere all

There's a rainbow that will shimmer

When the summer falls

 

If an echo doesn't answer

When it hears a searchin' sound

Then the beast is free to wander

But never seen around

 

And it's the sign of the southern cross

It's the sign of the southern cross

All right

Sail away

Today

Ohh

 

From the book the word is spoken

Whispers from forgotten sound

Gather all around the young ones

They will make us strong

Reach above your dreams of pleasure

Give a knife tthose who die

Look beyond your own horizons

Sail the ship of signs

 And it's the sign of the southern cross

It's the sign of the southern cross

 

Fade away, fade away

Break the crystal ball

Fade away, fade away

I can't accept it anymore

 

Ohh

On a real world, west of wonder

Somewhere, nowhere all

There's a rainbow, see it shimmer

When the summer falls

From the book the word is spoken

Whispers from forgotten sound

Gather all around the young ones

They will make us strong

 

It's the sign of the southern cross

It's the sign of the southern cross

 

Don't live for pleasure

Make life your treasure

Fade away

 

Eight miles high, about to fall

And no one there to catch you

Look for the sign, the time

The sign of the southern cross. Play on !

 

4. E5150 (EVIL) (Instrumental )

 

5. Mob Rules

Close the city and tell the people that something's coming to call

Death and darkness are rushing forward to stamp light from the wall, oh

 

You've nothing to say

They'll drag you away

If you listen to fools

The mob rules

The mob rules

 

Kill the spirit and you'll be blinded, the end is always the same

Play with fire, you burn your fingers and you´ll get hold of a flame, oh

 

It's over, it's done

The end has begun

If you listen to fools

The mob rules

 

You've nothing to say

Oh, they're breaking away

If you listen to fools

 

Break the circle and stop the movement, the wheel is thrown to the ground

Just remember it might stop rolling and take you right back around

 

You're all fools, fools, fools, fools

The mob rules

 

6. Country Girl

Fell in love with a country girl, morning sunshine

She was up from a nether world,

Just to bust another soul

Her eyes were an endless flame, unholy lady

Desire with a special name, made to snatch your soul away, yeah. Ooh, yeah

 

We sailed away on a crimson tide, down the river

Left my heart on the other side, all to break it into bits

Her smile was a winter song, a sabbath ending

Don't sleep or you'll find me gone, just an image in the air. Oh yeah

 

In dreams I think of you

I don't know what to do with myself

Time has let me down

She brings broken dreams, falling stars

The endless search for where you are

So wrong, so wrong, so wrong, so wrong

 

I fell in love with a country girl, morning sunshine

She was up from a nether world, just to bust another soul

Her eyes were an endless flame, unholy lady

Desire with a special name, made to snatch your soul away, oh

 

Don't sail away on a crimson tide

Don't leave your heart on another side

She rides on an endless flame

Desire wanna scratch your name

Don't ever fall in love

Don't give your heart away

Don´t ever, never fall in love,

with a Country Girl

 

7. Slipping Away

Oh, Slipping away, just a heartbeat from disaster

Nothing to make me stay, close your eyes and I'll be gone

Turn the page, go to start another story

Slipping away, slipping away, time to move along

 

No reason to stay

Not when I'm slipping away

 

Said now look at yourself, you've been running me in circles

Round and round you go, you're a song without an end

Can you alight, yeah, from the city of the gypsies

Running away, slipping away, right behind the plow

 

Slipping away

Slipping away

Nobody to pay

Look out, 'cause I'm slipping away

 

Droppin' the glass, I won't leave you my reflection

I´ll kiss you without a fact, no more road to turn me bad

Tell me you will, yeah, just don't question my direction

Breaking away, slipping away, waiting to find yourself...

 

Slipping away

Slipping away

Got nobody to pay

So, and you're slippin' away

 

No more running in a circle

It's time to move along

Round, round, round we go

Stuck without an inch

So I'm slipping away

Slipping away

 

8. Falling off the Edge of the World

I think about closing the door

And lately I think of it more

I'm living well out of my time

I feel like I'm losing my mind

 I should be at the table round

A servant of the crown

The keeper of the sign

To sparkle and to shine

 

Never, no never again

Listen to me and believe what I say if you can

Never, this is the end

You know I've seen the faces of doom and I'm only a man

 

Help me, tell me I'm sane

I feel a change in the earth, in the wind and the rain

Save me, by turning away

You know I've seen some visions of hell, and I've heard what they say

 

I've got to be strong, oh oh

I'm falling off the edge of the world, mmm

Think you're safe, but you're wrong

We are falling off the edge of the world

 

Look up in danger

Nowhere to run

It seems like desperate measures but sometimes it's gotta be done

Over, it's over at last

And the message's inside is we build a new life from the past

 

We're falling off the edge of the world

Yes, the edge of the world

It's the end of the world

 

9. Over and Over

Sometimes I feel like I'm dying at dawn

And sometimes I'm warm as fire

But lately I feel like I'm just gone away

And it goes over, and over, and over again, yeah, yeah

 

Too many flames, with too much to burn

And life's only made of paper

Oh, how I need to be free of this pain

But it goes over, and over, and over, and over again

 

Sometimes I cry for the lost and alone

And for their dreams that will all be ashes

But lately I feel like I'm just gone away

And it goes over, and over, and over, and over again

 

Over, and over, and over again

Over, and over again...