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Have you ever thought about your soul - can it be saved?
Or perhaps you think that when you're dead you just stay in your grave
Is God just a thought within your head or is he a part of you?
Is Christ just a name that you read in a book when you were in school?
When you think about death do you lose your breath or do you keep your cool?
Would you like to see the Pope on the end of a rope - do you think he's a fool?
Well I have seen the truth, yes I've seen the light and I've changed my ways
And I'll be prepared when you're lonely and scared at the end of our days
Could it be you're afraid of what your friends might say
If they knew you believe in God above?
They should realize before they criticize
that God is the only way to love
Is your mind so small that you have to fall
In with the pack wherever they run
Will you still sneer when death is near
And say they may as well worship the sun?
I think it was true it was people like you that crucified Christ
I think it is sad the opinion you had was the only one voiced
Will you be so sure when your day is near, say you don't believe?
You had the chance but you turned it down, now you can't retrieve
Perhaps you'll think before you say that God is dead and gone
Open your eyes, just realize that he's the one
The only one who can save you now from all this sin and hate
Or will you still jeer at all you hear? Yes! I think it's too late.
Or perhaps you think that when you're dead you just stay in your grave
Is God just a thought within your head or is he a part of you?
Is Christ just a name that you read in a book when you were in school?
When you think about death do you lose your breath or do you keep your cool?
Would you like to see the Pope on the end of a rope - do you think he's a fool?
Well I have seen the truth, yes I've seen the light and I've changed my ways
And I'll be prepared when you're lonely and scared at the end of our days
Could it be you're afraid of what your friends might say
If they knew you believe in God above?
They should realize before they criticize
that God is the only way to love
Is your mind so small that you have to fall
In with the pack wherever they run
Will you still sneer when death is near
And say they may as well worship the sun?
I think it was true it was people like you that crucified Christ
I think it is sad the opinion you had was the only one voiced
Will you be so sure when your day is near, say you don't believe?
You had the chance but you turned it down, now you can't retrieve
Perhaps you'll think before you say that God is dead and gone
Open your eyes, just realize that he's the one
The only one who can save you now from all this sin and hate
Or will you still jeer at all you hear? Yes! I think it's too late.
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Track duration: 05:24
"After Forever" as written by Ward Iommi
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RIGHT....system wants them bad! Only the system is good.....
This song reminds me the ancient theatre of aristofanis. It called Ornithes (birds)!
but it is history....5th century BC.
That song has to do with the road to post-christianity era! Before that we have to get out of the dedaly loop of heaven and hell...
Its a hard road(key)
Connecto to...national acrobat to see the point of view more clear.
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Actually Geezer Butler is the one who wrote these lyrics. I agree with most of the comments on here that say they aren't telling you to be pro christian or pro satan, they're telling you to be open minded, i don't believe it's pro christian because the same album has the song Lord Of This World, the whole concept of the album is to be open minded and to be independent
And this song doesn't deal with Christianity in particular, but with any thoughts that believe the Jesus story and he wasn't just a myth that represented the sun, as some said, like Jordan Maxwell, God existence and so on. Great song, it appeals to anyone who believes in God and Jesus (Christians & Muslims)
On the meaning of the song. I personally believe that its sung from a other perspective.
Raised in a christian culture wasn't easy those days in England.
I think it shaked ozzy a little bit, since what ive heard ozzy was very "scared" person who thought death stood on the next corner all the time.
Also the lyrics has some thoughts of us people who call ourself "atheists"
"When you think about death do you lose your breath or
do you keep your cool?" -I would call myself an atheist but i still have wish and hope for a life after this, and yes, death scares me.
"Could it be you're afraid of what your friends might say
WHEN you believe in God above?" - I also can related to that, and i think you do too.
The only Sabbath songs that even mention Satan is N.I.B and Black Sabbath (the song)
but they could easily be interpreted into anti-satan songs..
personally, i think "The Wizard" is about Jesus too, although it doesnt use his name.
"Under the Sun" isn't an attack on God, but rather an attack on religious hypocrites (particularly in the US where they first encountered them) who kept saying the band were evil and telling them they were going to Hell. Butler found that to be an extremely un-Christian stance for so-called Christians to take. And he was also surprised to find that when he did speak to some of them, he knew the Bible better they did.
Hence the lines: "I don't want no Jesus freak to tell me what it's all about" (which he adds, in case there's any confusion, "no black magician telling me to cut my soul out"). Then "I don't want no preacher telling me about the God in the sky; no, I don't want no one to tell me where I'm gonna go when I die."
That's a stance born of frustration against people refusing to stop judging or to see what was obvious from the lyrics. The irony, after Sabbath printed the lyrics to After Forever on the back of the album, was that neither the Satanists, nor the religious community paid one of iota of attention, and continued to believe they were a force of evil. And many of the fans haven't helped either.
Sabbath have many songs that tell the listeners that they're christians ( what about war pigs )