I am iron man
Has he lost his mind?
Can he see or is he blind?
Can he walk at all,
Or if he moves will he fall?
Is he alive or dead?
Has he thoughts within his head?
We'll just pass him there
Why should we even care?

He was turned to steel
In the great magnetic field
Where he traveled time
For the future of mankind

Nobody wants him
He just stares at the world
Planning his vengeance
That he will soon unfold

Now the time is here
For Iron Man to spread fear
Vengeance from the grave
Kills the people he once saved

Nobody wants him
They just turn their heads
Nobody helps him
Now he has his revenge

Heavy boots of lead
Fills his victims full of dread
Running as fast as they can
Iron Man lives again!



Lyrics submitted by dsfire, edited by aydian23

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"Iron Man" as written by W. Ward F. Iommi

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    General Comment:You fellas got it all wrong. Watch the movie about Ozzy Osbourne and you'll see what he means by iron man. He has survived every drug he used an he used a lot, he's done a lot of stuff in his life that could have killed him. That's what the song is about, his survival of everything.
    Flag Reprieweon February 16, 2013   Link
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    My Interpretation:The meaning of this song is that a man traveled into the future and saw a future of destruction and death and went back in time to warn people of the coming destruction but in his travel back to the past he got turned to steel in the magnetic field and no one would listen to him because he was a freak, so he turned on the people and killed them and he caused the future that he tried to divert away from...
    Flagged ManofIronon July 12, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:i knoee wat diss means....its not related to any movie...
    it describess the wayy a person iss..manyy people wont understand..but seriously..
    feeling like an iron man is like the worstt dat could happen to u..
    in other words....some one who feels dat doesnt belongss and actss in confusion..while every bodyss like...wtf..
    yuppppp...
    Flagged claaaclaaon July 07, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:ok, i made an accocunt just to comment on this. i dont know if anyone knows but this song is about ozzy osbournes drug addicting, because he did so many drugs that scientifically he shouldent be alive.
    Flagged amberx0on May 25, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:Has he lost his mind?
    Can he see or is he blind?
    Can he walk at all,
    Or if he moves will he fall?

    Is he alive or dead?
    Has he thoughts within his head?
    We'll just pass him there
    Why should we even care?

    i think it is described as a man getting hit by a car, and the guys in the car get out to help him but instead get back in the car and drive off, and then i guess years later he gets revenge
    Flagged ajax3232on April 02, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:The Iron Man is very similar to The Golem.
    Flagged SisterRagson April 30, 2010   Link
  • -1
    General Comment:idiots....
    This is about a man who travels through time and sees the end of the world. On his way back to Earth to warn the human race, he goes through a magnetic storm and is turned to iron. Nobody believes him about the end of the world and he gets mad, taking his rage out on the human race, thus bringing about the end of the world that he saw.

    If you don't understand the song, then don't listen to it.....Oh and the songs not about the Hero Iron Man.....any one who thinks that isn't a Metal Fan.
    Flagged Jirouon April 12, 2010   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:i think this song is about a boy going to the army
    he goes into a coma and no one really cares about it
    then it talks about him having to mature to become a soldier ("He was turned to steel
    In the great magnetic field")
    i also think the magnetic field is the battlefield
    then when he wakes up...he kills everyone in a rage because no one cared about him in his coma state
    Flagged itomunozon March 12, 2010   Link
  • +1
    General Comment:seems like a homeless person who becomes mad that no one is helping him and then starts killing everyone
    Flagged jackDripperon March 07, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:I think the song is about a terminator type world where robots have had an uprising against humans
    I think
    Has he lost his mind?
    Can he see or is he blind?
    Can he walk at all,
    Or if he moves will he fall?

    Is he alive or dead?
    Has he thoughts within his head?
    We'll just pass him there
    Why should we even care?

    Is the age old question of will we get to a stage where machines become beings? Gain intelligence learn about emotion, passion, living their own life joy sadness and learn they are just our slaves and rise against us or are they just electrodes in an empty shell the lyrics listed support this. "Why should we even care" is humans ignorance of creating these advanced machines without realising what they could do if they had an evil thinking leader computer

    A brilliant scientist from the future who saved the last remaining members of mankind through some technology or cloaking device to hide from the robots or like a pill that feeds people for years or some kind of invention in the future that saved man kind
    "The people he once saved" lyrics
    He travels back in time to prevent this robotic uprising from happening , in travelling back in time he becomes deformed tries to enlist the help of the worlds scientists but they think he is mad and has lost his mind and refuse to stop building advanced machines so he tries to get his revenge by destroying these machines with a super weapon when they finally uprise.

    This brilliant scientist tries by himself to create a super weapon back in the past but something goes terribly wrong (such as a nuclear meltdown accident on creating this technology or like the Hadron Collider, a black hole swallows the earth or even a signal jammer for this robot jams all human technology for food and kills the whole human race) in the process of creating this super weapon to counter the robotic uprising and destroys all mankind which he in the future saved through some kind of vital invention, so In the end he didnt change the future where the robots would have wiped out humans anyway he killed them this time.

    Lyrics support my idea alright, the Iron man bits and Robots having thoughts is why I think its like this, from the opening lyrics and the lyrics support a lot of my story

    But its just a bit of a far out there interpretation really
    Flagged megabenderon January 24, 2010   Link

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