Paranoid by Black Sabbath

Paranoid is a song by Black Sabbath that appears on the band's second album Paranoid. Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler to Guitar World magazine, March 2004: "A lot of the Paranoid album was written around the time of our first album, Black Sabbath. We recorded the whole thing in about 2 or 3 days, live in the studio. The song "Paranoid" was written as an afterthought. We basically needed a 3 minute filler for the album, and Tony Iommi came up with the riff. I quickly did the lyrics, and Ozzy was reading them as he was singing. . .