a middle schooler's creative writing assignment one shots

me just mumbling about black sabbath for an assignment (Paranoid album review)

Black Sabbath is an English rock band formed in 1968. Something you can tell by their lyrics in the album paranoid that they were very anti-war, like if hippies made rock music. Songs that stick out from this anti war narrative include: "fairy's wear boots", "paranoid", and "Earth Caravan", while "rats salad" is just an instrumental. "Iron man" (having nothing to do with the marvel super hero) is about a man who travels to the future and sees horrible things, while traveling back to the present he gets turned to iron. The iron man tries to tell the people about the horrible future ahead but nobody pays attention to him. He gets so upset after being ignored for so long that he decides to enact revenge against the people. I have three theories on what this could be about. One of them is that when you ignore and poorly treat others, they will fight back and you'll get what you deserve back. The second one is that they sent him into the future to prevent bad things from happening but when he came back and turned to iron they ignored him and by trying to prevent bad things and sacrificing the man, they created that future they went out of their way to prevent. My last theory is that by ignoring the problem they only made it worse. They couldn't just ignore him (the man and the fact he was made of iron) so he made himself so obvious after being ignored for so long and now that the people actually wanted to fix anything(because it's finally affecting them) it's too late.

In a game of spot the difference "Planet Caravan" would stand out among the rest of the paranoid album just based on the sheer difference of vibes. The only way I can describe it is the feeling of waking up and getting to go back to sleep. The lyrics themselves don't make much sense, but they don't have too; it's just calm. It also kinda feels like a fever dream, but nice. I've read that it's about smoking weed and that checks out. While at first glance it may seem as if "The Hand of Doom" was promoting drug use the more you look into it it's actually a warning. Basically saying "hey this may feel great in the moment and it may distract you from the whole being in a war thing, but it will kill you if you keep this up". You can tell by the contrasting messages of these lyrics: "you push the needle in from life, you escape reality's black drape colors in your mind satisfy your time." and "head starts spinning 'round you fall down to the ground feel your body to heave Death hands start to weave it's too late to turn you dont wanna learn price of life you hide now, your gonna die". I know that the people this song is addressing are people who fought in the vietnam war because of the line: first it was the bomb vietnam, napalm. In the song "War Pigs" it compares politicians as evil minds that plot destruction. During the very long musical intro sirens start playing indicating that a city is being bombed. "Using people like pawns in chess" I think refers to how the military, instead of thinking of soldiers as people with families, thinks of them as numbers to be sacrificed so the other team has less numbers. It also talks about how it was mostly poor people dying in the war, not the people who originally started it. I think the "making war just for fun" part refers to how wars are started for petty or selfish reasons when things could simply be talked out or completely avoided. At the end of the song it basically says they're all going to go to hell for their sins.