Geezer Butler’s 11 Best Black Sabbath Lyrics

There are many reasons why Geezer Butler is one of rock’s greatest legends. His bass work in Black Sabbath, as so finely demonstrated in the opening minute of N.I.B., would help lay the sonic foundation for generations to come. But it was also his lyrics, being the band’s principal wordsmith during the Ozzy Osbourne-fronted years, that would so menacingly furnace satanic imagery into their game-changing apocalyptic blues. Here’s a look at his greatest lyrics through those ground-breaking years… 'What is This That Stands Before Me? Figure In Black Which Points At Me...' (Black Sabbath, 1970) Whatever it was that visited a young Geezer Butler tucked up in bed that fateful night, the world is in its debt. “I was sleeping and got woken up by a weird presence in the room,” h...

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