Osbourne wrote this song with Randy Rhoads, Bob Daisley and Lee Kerslake, who were his bandmates for his first two albums after leaving Black Sabbath. The project was supposed to be a group, not three guys backing up Osbourne. Conceived as a band called Blizzard of Ozz, it became an Ozzy solo project when their first album was released in 1980 with Osbourne the only one on the cover and his name in large letters. Despite the misappropriation, Rhoads, Daisley and Kerslake hung on for a second album, which was Diary of a Madman.
In our interview with Bob Daisley, he talked about writing this song: "It wasn't called anything for quite a while, because I hadn't written any lyrics and I didn't know what I was going to write it about. So musically it came together when we were rehearsing and writing in London before we went to Ridge Farm to record it. Then I wrote the lyrics at Ridge Farm while we were recording the Diary of a Madman album. I was searching for a while for what it could be about. I don't like your typical cliché love songs, and with the musical approach on that song - the aggressiveness and the heaviness - it couldn't have had light lyrics. It had to be a bit different: a bit philosophical, and a bit cryptic. I didn't come up with the lyrics for that until we were actually recording at Ridge Farm."
This was issued as a single in the UK, but it didn't chart.
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