Snowblind Lyrics
What you get and what you see
Things that don’t come easily
Feeling happy in my pain
Icicles within my brain (Cocaine)
[Verse 2]
Something blowing in my head
Winds of ice that soon will spread
Down to freeze my very soul
Makes me happy, makes me cold
[Bridge]
My eyes are blind, but I can see
The snowflakes glisten on the trees
The sun no longer sets me free
I feel the snowflakes freezing me
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 3]
Let the winter sun shine on
Let me feel the frost of dawn
Build my dreams on flakes of snow
Soon I’ll feel the chilling glow
About
This song is about cocaine, “Snowblind” refers to being high on the drug. The members of Black Sabbath used a lot of cocaine during this period. They originally wanted the album to be called Snowblind, but the record company refused. In the album’s liner notes, Sabbath thanks “the great COKE-cola,” also a reference to the drug.
The song has been by covered by System of a Down, Black Label Society, Converge and Sleep.
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You don’t really have… that across-the-board smash hit. “Snowblind” may be my favorite track on the record because it’s just got that great groove and slams in with that killer riff, and they’re singing about something that, at the time, was very near and dear to their heart.
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