Views in Verse on marriage.
I have just read the history of Black Sabbath - one of the few truly endearing heavy metal bands from the Seventies. My son gave me the book for Christmas; being myself a refugee from a garage rock band way back then. Some things you just can't leave behind.
Sabbath - never as good in my opinion as Led Zeppelin and Uriah Heep who were from similar roots - but hey they did have that something 'unique'. This isn't a review of the band however... so I won't go there further. Indeed I wouldn't recommend the book (Symptom of the Universe) to most people unless they have a truly broad interest in English rock bands of the period.
Notwithstanding that, this book, very well written by Mick Wall, is a great expose on the evolution of a marriage of Ozzy & Sharon that 'morphed' over the thirty years or more in question. The background being, the hardest part for the band wasn't the five years of initial fame - it was the tortuous decades that followed. To me the relationship of Ozzy & Sharon is the only real survivor of the book; where most of it paints a very sad picture of human destruction by drugs and fame.
Sharon Osbourne, anything but the English rose being the tough daughter of a rock promoter, steadfastly builds a marriage and family with this 'hollow man', whom she not only rescues from himself, but teaches him to live to be 'who he is' - the hardest thing for a recovering addict to accept. And of all the things that Ozzy had to achieve, a long term marriage would always seem his 'hill too far'. And let's be honest, he isn't alone.
I often think as we stand and speak at weddings and try to paint a picture of what is to come in life for newly weds, we very rarely attempt to paint the whole picture. We can only dwell on the romance of it all. It is far too complicated otherwise. Simply because, you haven't lived your life till you have lived it; and every couple's journey is a truly unique one...no other compares. None more colourful and challenging than the intersecting lives of the Osbournes though ...regardless of it all, they seem to have survived the ride.
Well done Ozzy - not bad for a self professed "fucking dummy from the 'black country' who never knew anything about anything"!
Rings around the moon
I give you my solace
You deflect my pain
You rebuff my feelings
Again and again
You look back 'stony'
I revisit my words
You insist upon leading
I shout to be heard
Two steps forward
Then one back
A loud tumultuous dance
It needs intervention
That's for sure
Yet little will happen by chance
Choice is a given
Throughout our lives
The actions our own
For want or for try
To step out of time
A very fine line
Running rings around the moon
Yes ...rings around the moon
We've more chance
To be one day seen
Running rings around the moon
Our best behaviour's
on show a while
It was good last May or June
But going astray
Is not ok
not even in coming Junes
We came together
not by chance
We both came knowingly
a fledgling thing...
a lifetime ring...
a bold ship tossed at sea
some days aren't easy
some days surprise
to hold it together
...to realise
...to give up the dance
...to forfeit the prize
Running rings around the moon
Yes rings around the moon
We've a chance
To be one day seen
Running rings around the moon
As a pair
we are well matched
so people seem to say
I guess this view
Comes right from 'us'
A face we both portray...
I speak your thoughts
You speak mine too
The words come out one way
Two different lives
transformed as one
and gifted to this day
The die is thrown
The thread is hewn
We won't release it
now or soon...
...this vice like grip
...this binding tune
Running rings around the moon
Yes ...rings around the moon
Locked in time
On a one time path
Running rings around the moon
Running rings around the moon
Yes ...rings around the moon
For better or worse
On a one time path
Running rings around the moon
Sent from my I-phone - Grahame J Flynn
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