Chords for Ozzy Osbourne on ISIS, Politics, and Not Knowing How to Play Guitar: Back & Forth (Part 2/3)

What is something about yourself that no one really knows about?
What's your sex life like or whatever?
I don't want to know that. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ [Cm] _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ You [Gm] yourself as a solo artist, you're on a very short list of [Ab] musicians [Cm] that went on to be
_ _ _ arguably more successful [Gm] when they left their original band.
Why do you think that is for you?
When _ I go into a studio, I've [Cm] never gone,
you know what, I really feel like doing a fucking bad album [Dm] now.
_ Sometimes that happens. _
_ _ _ Sometimes you don't. _
Are you your own worst critic in that sense?
Absolutely.
See, when you're in a studio for _ [Gm] months on end,
_ _ _ getting built from it, _ you're kind [Bb] of used to it.
[G] _ _ _
[Ab] _ _ Sometimes you still like to do it, but it's impossible now. _ _ _ _ _
I'd record an album, _ _ leave it for a couple of weeks,
_ _ then listen to [C] it to get it out of my head because _ _ you're too [Cm] attached.
[Gm] Yeah, that's right.
So as _ [G] _ an _ artist and a songwriter, [Cm] would you say your _ strongest point,
your strongest _ _ asset is the [Gm] ability to pull these melodies?
Yeah, _ _ that's the only thing.
[Bb] _ I don't play an instrument, I don't [Cm] understand music,
[B] I'm not great with lyrics, I come up with _ [Gm] melodies.
_ I think you can actually play more music on more instruments [Ab] than you give yourself credit for.
Because I remember you picked up a guitar and you just started playing chords.
No, I can't play.
You _ absolutely_
I watched you play chords on a guitar and I'm like, where did you learn that?
[C] _ _
I mean, after [G] 40 years, if you can't play some chords on a guitar_ I can't.
You can.
All right, you can.
Okay, [B] say [Ab] you can.
Okay.
You can, there you go.
So you're releasing this best of right now, this compilation.
Memoirs of a Madman.
Memoirs of a Madman.
I think the selection is pretty _ [Cm] cool.
Yeah, I mean, because there [Eb] hasn't actually been a complete, _ _
[Gm] a genuine true best of _ compilation.
I mean, do you look at the body of work [C] going, wow, that's kind of crazy?
_ I remember from the very first thing I did, _ the first Black Sabbath album,
it went in the charts.
I remember the manager coming up to me in the club and going,
you've got something to tell you.
And I go, what's that?
He goes, your [G] album's entering the charts at number 17 next week.
_ Oh, you're pulling my leg.
Because I'd got off previously to _ hear that song, the cover song,
with Evil Woman at six o'clock in the morning.
I was like, we're on the radio.
_ [Gm]
And then I remember thinking, _ _ [Bb] _
this is going to be fun for a couple of [Gm] years.
Let me have a _ booze up with my mates and I'll be back to _ this.
And from that moment [Bb] on, my life forever changed.
We all got ripped off by my managers, [Cm] but it was forever changed.
[Fm] I was married to another woman and then she divorced me.
I met your mum and I married your mum and we had [Cm] you guys.
And you couldn't write my script.
It was [C] just _ amazing what my [Gm] life's been like.
I mean, _ _ this is it for the rest of my life.
This is it.
And then [D] all of a sudden, [Cm] from nowhere, you just make a _ _ turn,
which you go somewhere _ completely out of [G] context of where you were before.
Yeah.
So you got your driver's license a couple [Cm] of years ago.
Where was the first place you went when you got your driver's license?
[Bb] They drive on the wrong side of the road here.
_ _ _ We in England drive on the other side.
_ _ You know, _ I've still got a license.
[Ab] I haven't got any points from it because I haven't driven.
_ _ _ [B] Do you have any regrets from when you were younger?
Life's full of regrets, but you can't leave.
You just, _ you know, you regret doing this, you regret doing that.
But you know, _ [G] you either get over it or you don't.
_ A lot of your songs, _ [Cm] Subject Matter, is very political.
But as a, you know, growing up with you,
[Gm] you've never been one of these very _ vocal [Cm] politically around the house.
It seems to kind of get directed a lot into your music.
Are you, do you [Eb] care about politics or anything like that?
[Gm] They all should start playing fucking music.
_ [Cm] What?
I mean, I met Tony Blair one time, the old English prime minister.
_ And he's looking at me and he comes over,
just [C] when the Iraq war started going,
I thought he was going to come up to me and say,
you could do very good for the country by _ doing a song or something for the troops. _
He comes up to [Gm] me and he goes, do you know, I was once in a band.
I'm like, what [Bb] the fuck, you made it?
[Eb] _ And he goes, I couldn't quite get the chords to Iron Man.
I'm like, [Gm] is that all you've got to fucking say?
We vote for these people in.
And they [Cm] never seem to pull off _ all the shit that _ promises to get in.
_ In Sabbath, so Giza was the main lyricist.
So I used to sing, he could give me some phenomenal lyrics. _
_ Yeah.
And [Ab] I have to craft them into a song.
_ But even post Sabbath though, you've done very kind of,
you know, whether [C] it's songs about _ war on drugs or _ just wars in general,
you know, it does seem to be something that [Cm] resonates with you.
Well, you know, my latest thing,
you see these people on TV talking about this ISIS thing.
_ And then we're going to go, yes, we should send _ _ [Gm] troops there.
And I go, [Fm] _ how [Cm] can they talk politely?
You can't have a polite war.
Excuse me, I'm just going to [Bb] shout you and you.
_ It must be the [A] scariest fucking place _ ever.
When, you know, when all [E] those kind of religious
zealots were coming after you back in the [A] day.
We were, we give them a job.
Yeah.
[C] I remember one time they _ [Gm] were going out picketing the gig. _
And I got _ a [C] _ _ _
broomstick and a staple gun, have a nice day.
And [Ab] I followed them around.
[G] They didn't even know who I was.
But that's something that has followed you your entire career, this [D] kind of.
[Ab] Yeah, but you know, at the poor Ronnie James Dales funeral,
they _ were out there going, I'm like, you _ fucking ignorant assholes.
The guy's got a gun and you want to send him a book.
Jesus could have saved you. _ _
_ I mean, you've got nothing else better to fucking do.
Yeah.
You know, and they condemn that.
But they won't _ _ do anything good for someone, you know.
Yeah.
[Bb] It's just wrong.
_ _ But you can't see how freedom of [Eb] speech.
_ [C] Because in this world we live in, no matter how good the idea is,
there will always be someone who will go, [G] no, I don't think that's a good idea.
_ [Bb] _ Other countries, you go, oh yeah, even if it _ _ is a bad idea, you go, [Ab] yeah, yeah.
Because you go, you don't [C] like it?
In that [Gm] fucking van. _ _ _
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