War Pigs

"War Pigs" is an anti-war song by British heavy metal rockers Black Sabbath from their 1971 album, Paranoid. The song talks about war and the absurdities of those who make war without regard to the powerless people who are sent to die. It's sometimes called a protest song.

Walpurgis Lyrics

"Originally, was called 'Walpurgis', about Satan's Christmas thing,

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but we had to change the lyrics, because all the Satan stuff was going on." - Geezer

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"It was about Vietnam. We knew nothing about Vietnam, it's just an anti-war song." - Ozzy

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"It's about the sad shape that our world is in." (Ronnie James Dio, 1992).

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Lyrics:

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Witches gather at black masses

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Bodies burning in red ashes

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On the hill the church in ruin.

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Is the scene of evil doings

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It's a place for all black sinners

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Watch them eating dead rats' inners.

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I guess it's the same, whereever you may go

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Oh lord yeah

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Carry banners which denounce the lord

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See me rocking in my grave

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See them anoint my head with dead rat's blood

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See them stick the stake through me

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Oh

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Don't hold me back cause I just gotta go

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(Sat'n/They) got a hold of my soul now

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Lords got my brain instinct with blood obscene

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Look in my eyes I'm there enough

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Yeah

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On the scene a priest appears

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Sinners falling at his knees

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Satan sends out funeral pyre

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Casts the priest into the fire

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It's the place for all bad sinners.

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Watch them eating dead rats' inners

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I guess it's the same, whereever you may go

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Oh lord yeah

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