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Paranoid {Black Sabbath}

from Air Strike For Cover by Ryan O'Donovan

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Since I wasn't recording covers of bands/songs that many people knew of, I felt I needed to go for something more popular. And by that logic as well as my own musicality, I guess I couldn't leave out Black Sabbath's Paranoid from their 1970 album of the same name. It's perhaps the most popular song by one of the bands who invented metal music, and so it made sense for me to include it.

If you notice that this cover's a bit faster than the original, it's because I kind of preferred that speed when I heard Megadeth's cover. But what made this cover amazing to me is that I didn't need to record any bass for it as my guitar alone was so heavy. I guess that's the most powerful my guitar's ever been...

lyrics

Finished with my woman 'cause she couldn't help me with my mind
People think I'm insane because I am frowning all the time

All day long I think of things but nothing seems to satisfy
Think I'll lose my mind if I don't find something to pacify

Can you help me occupy my brain?
Oh yeah

I need someone to show me the things in life that I can't find
I can't see the things that make true happiness, I must be blind

Make a joke and I will sigh and you will laugh and I will cry
Happiness I cannot feel and love to me is so unreal

And so as you hear these words telling you now of my state
I tell you to enjoy life I wish I could but it's too late

It's too late
It's too late

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from Air Strike For Cover, released April 30, 2016
Song owned by Vertigo Records
Written by Geezer Butler, Toni Iommi, Ozzy Osbourne and Bill Ward
Produced by Rodger Bain

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Ryan O'Donovan Uckfield, UK

I am Ryan O'Donovan, a guitarist and vocalist based in Uckfield, East Sussex in England who is always out... to rock out.

Although I'm known primarily by the bands I play in, here is where I share/sell my solo work. Hope you like what you hear, and should you have anything to talk about, please contact me. I like interaction. ... more

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