TONY IOMMI LYRICS

1. Laughing Man (In The Devil Mask)

[featuring Henry Rollins]

Laughing man in the devil mask
Laughing man in the devil mask
Laughing man in the devil mask
Laughing man in the devil mask

You ripped yourself to shreds
While I stood laughing
You'd like to see me pay
For the time you're having

You'll walk that line again
You'll try to die again
You'll waste your nights just thinking of me

As the needle finds the vein
As the bullet goes through the brain
As your city meets the sea
As you're drowning, think of me

Laughing man in the devil mask
Laughing man in the devil mask
Laughing man in the devil mask
Laughing man in the devil mask

I am the lord of crime
The laughing man in a devil mask
I am the birth of crime
The laughing man in a devil mask
Drop to your knees again
The laughing man in a devil mask
Tie off and die again
The laughing man in a devil mask

Push the rock back up the hill
You start to feel like you're standing still
Your life lies broken for all to see
You'll hear the laughter, then you'll see me

Laughing man in the devil mask
Laughing man in the devil mask
Laughing man in the devil mask
Laughing man in the devil mask

Tender flock, led astray
You always knew it would be this way
You just go now, no need to ask
You are the face behind the devil mask

The laughing man in the devil mask
Laughing man in the devil mask
I'm laughing, I'm laughing
You're burning, you're burning
The laughing man in the devil mask
The laughing man in the devil mask
Burn, burn
Burn while I'm laughing

2. Meat

[featuring Skin]

You taste what you want from me
You taste all of the gristle from the bones I need
To stand up to you
To live up to fools
It's too troubling

Can't take what you like from me
Can't take all of the vision that your money thieves
Don't be careless now
Just a pretty babe
A cool covering

You can't hide, no
You can't hide the way you feel
You're just dead inside this meat
That you're smothering

You can't run, no
You just stumble, crash and cry
Without asking questions why
It's all crumbling

Dark eyes, beauty's never cheap
Dark hair, dark lips maybe that I want to cheat
See my sorry face
In this love that fails
It's all good for me

Slick baby that ain't worrying
Slick rage, strong is the ego that I want to test
In your head of lies
Cut me down to size
It's all credible

You can't hide, no
You can't hide the way you feel
You're just dead inside this meat
That you're smothering

You can't run, no
You just stumble, crash and cry
Without asking questions why

Pure fear that you're falling for
These tears, thick in the sadness that was running before
Welling up in dread
For a softer bed
I'm not worrying

You're so sane, all the lines you shed
So cool, so good, the picture for those crazy hoods
Got this gun for keeps
Stick it in this meat
I'm not hurrying

You can't hide, no
You can't hide the way you feel
You're just dead inside this meat
That you're smothering

You can't run, no
You just stumble, crash and cry
Without asking questions why
It's all crumbling

You can't hide, no
You can't hide the way you feel
You're just dead inside this meat
That you're smothering
That you're smothering
That you're smothering

3. Goodbye Lament

[featuring Dave Grohl]

Say a prayer for me
In my memory
Have a taste, another one is through
Damn this place in me
Damn this destiny
I will be the one who cries when you go

Hello misery
You're the best of me
Hey, someone got the best of you
Come and sleep with me
For infinity
We'll spend some time and find the rest of you

Break down, break down
Reeling in your head
Rain down, rain down
Innocence is dead

Goodbye lament, goodbye lament
Goodbye faith, I swear I won't believe

Pray for me
Fading memories
Give me time and I will fade into you
Come and dance with me
I will always be sleeping behind the eyes
That I'm bleeding through

Break down, break down
Reeling in your head
Way down, way down
Innocence is dead

Goodbye lament, goodbye lament
Goodbye faith, I swear I won't believe
Goodbye lament, goodbye lament
Goodbye faith, I swear I won't believe

Break down, break down
Reeling in your head
Way down, way down
Innocence is dead

Break down, break down
Reeling in your head
Way down, way down
Innocence is dead

Goodbye lament, goodbye lament
Goodbye faith, I swear I won't believe

4. Time Is Mine

[featuring Philip Anselmo]

Lift me up
Lift me up
Put me above jail
But put me below skies, below crimson skies

Undress me from these rags
Shake me and watch me glow
Foundations cracking under the wisdom of our steps

Lift me up and shake me low
Shake and glow and life will be saved

Time is mine, ignore the blind
It won't be long till the writing is gone
And time will fly
A burden on life lifted high and precisely through wisdom and war
Wisdom and war

Braided veins
Can turn to gold
Smoke and stone
Will claim the skies and open all whose eyes are blind
The tempter is behind thee, and cowers through the throes
The sands that drank from blood, to rivers that flow beyond

Time is mine, ignore the blind
It won't be long till the writing is gone
And time will fly
The tied hands of man and you will understand through the pains of rebirth
Time is mine, the choking of seas
I won't be wrong when the scriptures are gone
And time will fly
A burden on life lifted high and precisely through wisdom and war

Deplete the eyes
Walk through the skies
In the memories of old
We'll blow it all away

Time is mine, ignore the blind
It won't be long till the writing is gone
And time will fly
The tied hands of man and you will understand through the pains of rebirth
Time is mine, the choking of seas
I won't be wrong when the scriptures are gone
And time will fly
A burden on life lifted high and precisely through wisdom and war

5. Patterns

[featuring Serj Tankian]

Life is a story
Go ahead and find your sight

Life is your glory
Go ahead and live the night

But to live means to be here
In the present now
Do try to bow for the gift of your day
Then you cede to the morning sun

Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive

Life is a story
Go ahead and find your sight

But to live means to be here
In the present now
Do try to bow for the gift of your day
Then you cede to the morning sun

Pretending that we see doesn't give us the sight
Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive

What is it that makes us lose sight
True sight, of what is real and essential
I'll take organized patterns of chaos
Over the chaotic organizations of man, any day

Pretending that we see doesn't give us the sight
Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive
Pretending that we see doesn't give us the sight
Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive

6. Black Oblivion

[featuring Billy Corgan]

You ask me why
I'll tell you die
My head is full of lies
And I am beyond high

You don't know just what I'm waiting for
Acid burns my skull as blind as snow
Black oblivion drags me ever towards
I dream tomorrow till tomorrow is nevermore

Voices tell me strike the match and burn it all to hell
Voices tell me I could watch if I promise not to tell

You don't know just where I want to go
The cross won't save you from your fallen soul

Drive slow motion firewall
Candy apple fuse
Emotions are unattached as demons are amused

Family spins the circle
Nerves are growing cold
Shotgun to the temple
Nausea down below
No more talking backwards
Or fists to the heart
Blacklight tries to capture
One more superstar

No more lines to cross
No more lines, I'm lost

No more lines, I'm lost

You don't know just where I want to go
Acid burns a hole right through my soul
Black oblivion, my long lost friend
Lord forgive me for I have sinned

7. Flame On

[featuring Ian Astbury]

I am one, one that shines
Yeah, I was born of a scorpion's mind
I am one, so alive
Don't try to teach me what your lips can't decide

I'm the sun, so alive
A simple breath's all I need to get by
Words you speak are like dirt in my mind
I'm gonna burn till all the stars die

Flame on
I used to bleed like a suicide mother
Flame on
And now I breathe in this dirty black summer
Flame on
I bought the truth in the mouth of my brother
Flame on
I used to bleed like a suicide motherfucker

As it is, thought divine
A diamond seed in the heart of all mind
All is truth, truth it shines
Don't hesitate for the world it divides

Flame on
I used to bleed like a suicide mother
Flame on
And now I breathe in this dirty black summer
Flame on
I bought the truth in the mouth of my brother
Flame on
I used to bleed like a suicide motherfucker

Flame on
I used to bleed like a suicide mother
Flame on
And now I breathe in this dirty black summer
Flame on
I bought the truth in the mouth of my brother
Flame on
I used to bleed like a suicide motherfucker

Flame on
I used to bleed like a suicide mother
Flame on
And now I breathe in this dirty black summer
Flame on
I bought the truth in the mouth of my brother
Flame on
I used to bleed like a suicide motherfucker

8. Just Say No To Love

[featuring Peter Steele]

Jealous black and envy green
No one died and left you queen
Rotted flesh and broken bones
Place your ass upon the throne

Just say no to love
Just say no to love

Multihued transparency
Of the girl you'd like to be
A special frozen place in hell
Preserved for those who love themselves

Left is right and right is wrong
None for all and all for none
I've had enough, say no to love
No to love

Jon Lord said that you were killed
Not possibly be more thrilled
A party thrown, I'm so excited
Since you're dead, you're not invited
On your grave I made a wish
You beneath me is such bliss
A fitting end for a phony
You dumped me for Tony Iommi

Left is right and right is wrong
None for all and all for none
I've had enough, say no to love
No to love

Left is right and right is wrong
None for all and all for none
I've had enough, say no to love
No to love

Left is right and right is wrong
None for all and all for none
I've had enough, say no to love
No to love

Left is right and right is wrong
None for all and all for none
I've had enough, say no to love
No to love

Just say no to love
Just say no to love

9. Who's Fooling Who

[featuring Ozzy Osbourne]

Is the end beginning
Apocalyptic thoughts of doom
They tell us not to fear
It's far too soon

Addicted to predictions
Were the tarots wrong or right
Will I wake tomorrow
And see the light

Watch your mother die, and then tell us not to fight
Don't you realize, they're just a bunch of fools
Speak the truth and lie, and expect us to believe
Tell me who is fooling who

Watch the soldiers marching
They don't march for you or me
They're just there to kill the enemy

Watch your mother die, and then tell us not to fight
Don't you realize, they're just a bunch of fools
Speak the truth and lie, and expect us to believe
Tell me who is fooling who

Will they ever wake up
Will they ever see the light
Give me one good reason people fight

Watch your mother die, and then tell us not to fight
Don't you realize, they're just a bunch of fools
Speak the truth and lie, and expect us to believe
Tell me who is fooling who

Who's fooling who...

10. Into The Night

[featuring Billy Idol]

And you say you wanna live forever
And you've got all the time to kill
And you're living in the dark forever
In your own little private hell

I wanna rule this world
I wanna walk the night
I wanna bleed this girl
Gonna take it all night till the morning light

I wanna lead this world
I wanna wake the dead
And all the undead souls who walk the night
They can suck my dick

Are you sure you're so clean and pure
As you lie here in front of me now
And you're tempting the lord of darkness
As you see what's forbidden to see

I wanna rule this world
I wanna walk the night
I wanna bleed this girl
Gonna do it all night till the morning light

I wanna rule this world
I wanna wake the dead
And all the undead souls who walk the night
They can suck my dick

Oh yeah, you know it's true
Yeah, you, yeah

When people say I'm from the underworld
Every kind of sin, you best believe it, girl
You come on over here from the other side
Come back to hell, it's so warm inside

I sleep through the day 'cause I'm into the night
I wanna sleep through the day 'cause I live through the night
I sleep through the day 'cause I'm into the night
I wanna sleep through the day 'cause I live through the night

Yeah, you

I wanna rule this world, yeah
I'm gonna walk the night

I wanna rule this world
I wanna rule the night
And all the undead souls
I wanna wake the dead
I wanna get you, girl
I'm gonna rule this world, babe
It's gonna be alright
Oh yeah







TONY IOMMI LYRICS