This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
I'm looking through a hole in the sky
I'm seeing nowhere through the eyes of a lie
I'm getting closer to the end of the line
I'm living easy where the sun doesn't shine
I'm living in a room without any view
I'm living free because the rent's never due
The synonyms of all the things that I've said
Are just the riddles that are built in my head
Hole in the sky, take me to heaven
Window in time, through it I fly
I've seen the stars disappear in the sun
The shooting's easy if you've got the right gun
And even though I'm sitting waiting for Mars
I don't believe there's any future in cause
Hole in the sky, take me to heaven
Window in time, through it I fly
Yeah
I've watched the dogs of war enjoying their feast
I've seen the western world go down in the east
The food of love became the greed of our time
But now I'm living on the profits of pride
I'm seeing nowhere through the eyes of a lie
I'm getting closer to the end of the line
I'm living easy where the sun doesn't shine
I'm living in a room without any view
I'm living free because the rent's never due
The synonyms of all the things that I've said
Are just the riddles that are built in my head
Hole in the sky, take me to heaven
Window in time, through it I fly
I've seen the stars disappear in the sun
The shooting's easy if you've got the right gun
And even though I'm sitting waiting for Mars
I don't believe there's any future in cause
Hole in the sky, take me to heaven
Window in time, through it I fly
Yeah
I've watched the dogs of war enjoying their feast
I've seen the western world go down in the east
The food of love became the greed of our time
But now I'm living on the profits of pride
Lyrics submitted by carlos_avdas, edited by kevink8566, Extremis1
Hole In The Sky Lyrics as written by Tony Iommi Michael Butler
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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To me, it's about the afterlife. I mean, if you look at things like Hinduism, they view ascending to the afterlife through a portal, which to me is what the "hole" represents.
Prison or apocalypse seem most likely, it wouldn't exactly be out of character for Sabb to do another apocalypse song.
I like the line about the food...and choking on it.
I got something for you to choke on. Choke, gag, same difference.
I think this song is about watching T.V. and the different things you see on it. Television is being described here as a "hole in the sky that you fly through" or how you seem to fly through it to the parts of the world you are viewing on it. Re-read the lyrics with this in mind and see if it doesn't make more sense. Sitting in a room without any view. Seeing nowhere through the eyes of a lie. Get It ?
i agree that in the first stanza he might be referring to a tv as type of shamanistic hole in the sky
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Umm...I think what was meant by that line was that the western world's influence has strongly spread to the east in modern times - 'go down' as in 'happening'
I interpret that line is that he's seen the Western World lose a war(go down) in the east, aka Vietnam.
this song is about people who dont believe in god. "I'm seeing nowhere through the eyes of a lie" that line means to me that someone is seeing life through what appears to be not true- and in someone who doesnt believe in god, that can be true. The person in the song seems to also be old because he says "im getting closer to the end of the line"
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@Bashe for dramatic effect, the hard hitting full throttle maxed out feel and suddenly it's turned off.
I agree with the first post. Life in prison makes alot of sense with this song. (I'm living free because the rent's never due) The Hole could be a T.V that he's watching. (Seen the western world go down in the east) He's just kinda sitting there watching T.v or looking out of the "hole" Cause there's not much else to do. Ozzy Himself was in Prison for 8 Weeks for stealing Womens clothing to sell at a bar. Ozzy himself was so bored in prison it was where he gave himself his famous "Ozzy" tattoo.
your all wrong its about mans destruction on there enviorment and how we made a hole in the ozone layer and how the world is eventually going to fall to shit
It may be, but the hole in the ozone layer was discovered years after this song was recorded.