Snowblind

The song is about cocaine.

Everyone should stop covering Sabbath, because no one can match the primal force and raw energy of these motherfuckers!

THIS ISNT ABOUT HOW SYSTEM OF A DOWN SUCKS!!!!!(Which they don't). This is supposed to be interpretations.

This song is about the ecstacy of a cocaine high, and being in denial of it's decadent effects.

The solo at the end is trance inducing.

Well, as someone who's done his share of coke (if you get the opportunity, pass on that), I can tell you that there's almost a literal translation here. After a long night of partying and doing coke, smoking Marlboros and weed, and drinking, by dawn your nose and eyes are kind of burning...really irritated. Your eyes are irritated like you've been staring at a computer screen all day and your nose is burning like you've been breathing lots of cold, dry air (what the coke is cut with can have a lot to do with it, but I'm pretty sure it's mainly a result of the highly damaging drug you've been snorting into your brain all night).

Anyways, it's one of my favorite Sabbath songs. I don't care much for SOAD's cover, and Zakk Wylde's cover, although awesome, isn't close to as good as Sabbath's (it sounds the same, yet different, but it's very good as far as covers are concerned...you can find it on the bonus disc of Live Brewtality album and I think it's on the Kings of Damnation compilation).

When someone is "snowblind", it means that they're really fucked on coke.

actually being snowblind is what happens to people who spent a long time around snow and the sun reflects off it causing eventual sight problems from the glare. allwords.com/word-snow-blind.html as far as i know it does not mean being fucked on coke they just use it as a metaphor.

Once again as with many Sabbath songs the meaning isn't just conveyed by the lyrics it's also the sounds of the instruments. Notice how it slows down on the third verse and then speeds up faster than normal for the fifth I think the changes in tempo are supposed to indicate the feelings of a cocaine addict. The depression and the anger.

this song has a deeper point than just cocaine, as duz all Sabbaths songs thats why its called "heavy metal" consisting of reality of everything and dealing with it with drugs Sabbaths been trying to get people to think about whats real we all live in a "wheel of Confusion" drugs not being the only illusion but most everything we do in life is also there tryin to expand are minds make us realize the truth thus resulting in the Supernaut because of everyone elses ignorance we try what is explained in cornucopia which is made from frustration of people that refuse to see

Afe of these lyrics are wrong as well.

  What you get and what you see Things that don't come easily Feeling happy in my PAIN Icicles within my brain (cocaine)

Something blowing in my head WINDS OF ice, it soon will spread Death would LEAVE my very soul Makes me happy, makes me cold

My eyes are blind but I can see. The snow flakes glisten on the tree The Sun no longer sets me free. I feel THE SNOW FLAKES freezing me

Let the Winter Sun shine on Let me feel the frost of dawn Fill my dreams with flakes of snow Soon I'll feel the chilling glow

Don't you think I know what I'm doing Don't tell me that it's doing me wrong You're the one who's really THE loser This is where I feel I belong

Crystal world with Winter flowers TURN MY DAYS to frozen hours Lying Snowblind in the Sun Will my ice age ever come?

(this last line also sounds a bit like "Feel my Ice Age, ever calm". which better fits poetically with the rest of the verse)

yup. cocaine. actually i thought SOAD did a horrible version on it. atleast it wasnt as bad as (hed)pe's cover of sabbra cadabra... shudders