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A.D. 2001, Ozzy ritorna pubblicando quest'album dopo un'assenza durata 6 anni dal precendente, periodo di tempo in cui uscì soltanto la raccolta (ottima tra l'altro) "The Ozzman Cometh".
Un ritorno atteso, desiderato, soprattutto da chi come me aveva molto apprezzato "Ozzmosis". Le aspettative però, devo essere onesto, sono state un po' deluse dalle canzoni presenti in questo CD. In nessuna di esse compare il nome di Zakk come autore, e questo già... vabbè non faccio il processo alle intenzioni, non vuol dire niente, ma la differenza si è sentita, e con questo non voglio dire che l'impressione che ho avuto sia da attribuire a questo fatto.
L'album non si presenta male e alcuni riff tipo la opener "Gets Me Through" oppure "That I Never Had" sono abbastanza orecchiabili, ma non dicono niente di nuovo.
Insopportabile la ballad "Dreamer", troppo scontata, credo che Ozzy non abbia mai scritto una canzone cosi brutta. Delle altre non mi ricordo granché, perchè questo disco l'ho cestinato quasi subito, non lo ascolto da un pezzo, ed è molto raro che lo metta nel lettore del mio stereo.
In generale il disco non è graffiante come lo sono stati "No More Tears" o "No Rest For The Wicked", e va bene, non tutti sono capolavori, ma neache possiede la bellezza e la manifattura di "Ozzmosis".
Insomma, è secondo me (e qui forse aizzerò un po' di polemica...) il classico disco che ti devi aspettare da un grande del passato (cantante o gruppo che sia) nell'era moderna, dominata da altri generi, in cui sembra che il buon vecchio metal si sia un po' spento.
Detto questo concludo dicendo che non mi aspetto certo che Ozzy sforni chissaché, gli anni sono passati e i tempi cambiano, però cavolo, neanche un disco che dopo qualche giorno ti annoi ad ascoltarlo e resta lì solo a fare numero in mezzo alla tua collezione. Voto 3, perché 2,5 non posso metterlo.
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01 Gets Me Through (05:04)
I`m not the kind of person
You think I am
I'm not the antichrist or
The iron man
I have a vision that I
Just can't control
I feel I've lost my spirit
And sold my soul
Got no control
I try to entertain you
The best I can
I wished I started walking
Before I ran
But I still love the feeling
I get from you
I hope you'll never stop cause
It gets me through yeah (2x)
The feelings that I hide behind
Sometime reality's unkind
The nightmares start for me at night
I dread the long and lonely nights
I'm not the kind of person
You think I am
I'm not the antichrist or
The iron man
But I still love the feeling
I get from you
I hope you'll never stop cause
It gets me through yeah
I'm just trying to live yeah
I'm just trying to live yeah
I'm just trying to live yeah
02 Facing Hell (04:25)
You made promise of protection
To a future after life
To the final resurrection
And to eternal paradise
But then I'm blinded with temptation
And to every mortal sin
Is it God that sits there waiting?
Or will the darkness suck me in
Let's wake up the dead
Oh yeah
It's better that never you know
More tears are shed
Oh yeah
I'm praying that you'll never know
That I'm facing hell
Oh the children sit and listen
The belief was in their eyes
In a land without tomorrows
Through the night you hear their cries
But then your eyes just skip the pages
Of a book that never ends
Is it God that sits there waiting?
Do you hear the call again?
Let's wake up the dead
Oh yeah
It's better that never you know
More tears are shed
Oh yeah
I'm praying that you'll never know
That I'm facing hell
It's just crazy world we live in
And I'm out of my mind
You pray tomorrow but your leaving today
Evil one is coming and he's knocking your door
Cause todays the day you'll pay
Let's wake up the dead
Oh yeah
It's better that never you know
More tears are shed
Oh yeah
I'm praying that you'll never know
Let's wake up the dead
Oh yeah
It's better that never you know
More tears are shed
Oh yeah
I'm praying that you'll never know
That I'm facing hell
That I'm facing hell
That I'm facing hell
That I'm facing hell
03 Dreamer (04:44)
Gazing through the window
At the world outside
Wondering will mother
Earth survive
Hoping that mankind will
Stop abusing her, sometime
After all there's only
Just the two of us
And here we are still
Fighting for our lives
Watching all of history
Repeat itself
Time after time
I'm just a dreamer
I dream my life away
I'm just a dreamer
Who dreams of better days
I watch the sun go down
Like everyone of us
I'm hoping that the dawn
Will bring a sign
A better place for those
Who will come after us, this time
I'm just a dreamer
I dream my life away, oh yeah
I'm just a dreamer
Who dreams of better days
Your higher power may be
God or Jesus Christ
It doesn't really
Matter much to me
Without each others help
There ain't no hope for us
I'm living in a dream
A fantasy, oh yeah yeah yeah
-Solo-
If only we could all
Just find serenity
It would be nice if
We could live as one
When will all this anger
Hate and biggotry, be gone?
I'm just a dreamer
I dream my life away
Today
I'm just a dreamer
Who dreams of better days
Oh yeah
I'm just a dreamer
Who's searching for
The way, today
I'm just a dreamer
Dreaming my life away
Oh yeah yeah yeah
04 No Easy Way Out (05:05)
Looking to the mirror
From the other side
Seeing her reflection
And it blows my mind
Trying to deny it
But damage is done
I'll just run as always
But the race is run
You've got to tell me it's over now
I'm trapped inside of a dream
The crushing weight on my shoulders now
Is bearing down and it seems
There's just no easy way out
No easy way out
Read the daily fiction, Superman is dead
Crushing coins of silver, imitating lead (?)
Then if you will fix the children of the past (?)
I guess their's isn't welcome, doesn't time move fast (?)
You've got to tell me it's over now
I'm trapped inside of a dream
The crushing weight on my shoulders now
Is bearing down and it seems
There's just no easy way out
No easy way out
Night in the shadow of man
This is the dawn of the dead
Don't let it live in your head
And then now as the sabbath begins
It wakes your nightmare again
So run away if you can
So just run
Run as fast as you can
You've got to tell me it's over now
I'm trapped inside of a dream
The crushing weight on my shoulders now
Is bearing down and it seems
There's just no easy way out
Too late too tell me it's over now
Falling apart at the seams
No angel sits on my shoulders now
I hold my head and it screams
There's just no easy way out
No easy way out
07 Junkie (04:28)
You're coming down badly
You're crippled inside
A rat in your sewer
You've no place to hide
A gut wrenching fever
Addicted to death
You don't give a fuck
If it meaans your last breath
You try so hard to quit
But you'll never admit
You're the junkie
There's no reasoning why
Cause the mirror don't lie
Your the junkie
You crave for the needle to stick in your vein
Can't wait for the poison to kill all the pain
You buy your cheap ticket to take a short ride
That beautiful flower is eating your mind
You try so hard to quit
But you'll never admit
You're the junkie
There's no reasoning why
Cause the mirror don't lie
Your the junkie
Your name means nothing
You don't know the score
Body is aching you still crave for more
Sometimes you wish that you'd never been born
Tormenting came with a crown full of thorns
You're chasing the dragon
You're chasing the high
A bird with one wing
Who's still trying to fly
You're all out of spirit
A dead man alive
A born again junkie
You'll never survive
You try so hard to quit
But you'll never admit
You're the junkie
There's no reasoning why
Cause the mirror don't lie
Your the junkie
Junkie
Junkie
Junkie
Junkie
10 Alive (04:54)
A child of a broken mind
The fear that I hide behind
I hate rejection
It's the worst
It gravely hurts me
Living inside my head
I feel like the living dead
I need your affection
It's the best
It greatly helps me
With my back against the wall
Trying so hard not to fall
I'm so tired of sleeping around
Hopeless, in despair
Don't know if I'm here or there
Feeling like I'm up and I'm down
But I'm still alive
I don't have any plans
To go anywhere
You know I'm alive
I know I'm crazy but
I still like it here
But I'm still alive
I don't have any plans
To go anywhere
I don't want to die
A head full of
Tragic schemes
what keeps me
Alive is dreams
I dream that someday
I'll find the key that
Sets my mind free
You may think
I've lost control
The man with
The broken soul
I'm not here to try
And make excuses
Just believe me
With my back against the wall
Trying so hard not to fall
I'm so tired of sleeping around
Hopeless, in despair
Don't know if I'm here or there
Feeling like I'm up and I'm down
But I'm still alive
I don't have any plans
To go anywhere
You know I'm alive
I know I'm crazy but
I still like it here
I don't have any plans
To go anywhere
I don't want to die
yeah
But I'm still alive
I don't have any plans
To go anywhere
You know I'm alive
I know I'm crazy but
I still like it here
But I'm still alive
I don't have any plans
To go anywhere
You know I'm alive
I know I'm crazy but
I still like it here
But I'm still alive
I don't have any plans
To go anywhere
You know I'm alive
I know I'm crazy but
I still like it here
But I'm still alive
I don't have any plans
To go anywhere
You know I'm alive
I know I'm crazy but
I still like it here
I don't want to die
You know I'm alive
You know I'm alive
11 Can You Hear Them? (05:00)
So sick and tired of living
And so afraid to die
I've lived so many lives
And still I wonder why
The way the world perceives me
Is not the way I am
The one half thinks I'm crazy
The other thinks I'm mad
I spent a long long time
Alone in my room
I need your help to get me
Out of this gloom
Can you hear them
All the voices in my head
They freak me out
Can you hear them
They won't be happy 'till I'm dead
They freak me out
Ten thousand million nightmares
Temptation by the score
I used to get so high
And still I wanted more
You think my time is wasted
In search of who I am
I tried to so hard to kill
The boy inside the man
I spent a thousand years
One night in my room
I've lived so many lives
And that is my doom
Can you hear them
All the voices in my head
They freak me out
Can you hear them
They won't be happy
'Till I'm dead
They freak me out
Can you hear them
All the voices in my head
They freak me out
Can you hear them
They won't be happy
'Till I'm dead
They freak me out
I never thought I'd smile again
Always thought I'd
Be here on my own
Sometimes when I'm down
You come and save me again
And again
And again
And again
I'll never understand it
It makes no sense at all
Just look at what I've done
It's time to count the score
I've spent a long long time
Alone in my room
I need your help to get me
Out of this gloom
Can you hear them
All the voices in my head
They freak me out
Can you hear them
They won't be happy
'Till I'm dead
They freak me out
Can you hear them
All the voices in my head
They freak me out
Can you hear them
They won't be happy
'Till I'm dead
They freak me out
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