The Histrionics
Paranoid
Iommi/Ward/Butler/Osbourne/Kesminas (1970/2003)

To DANIUS KESMINAS

 

Finished with art theory
‘Cause it wouldn’t help me with my mind
People think I’m insane
Because I am reading all the time All day long I read the things
But nothing seems to satisfy
Think I’ll lose my mind
Put it on my curriculum vitae

Can theory help me?
Is it for my brain?
Oh yeah

I need someone to show me
The things in art that I can’t find
I can’t see the things
That make great artwork
So I must be blind

When I’m broke and I will sigh
And you will laugh and I will cry
Philosophy is so unreal
It’s criticism that I feel

And so as you hear
These words telling you now all of my state
I say to read less theory
I wish I did but it’s too late

Originally recorded by Black Sabbath
Published by Essex Music