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Geezer Butler Opens Up About Depression and Its Relation to Black Sabbath Song “Paranoid”
“Unless you’ve experienced true depression, you can’t describe it. It’s like you’re going to this awful black hole. And people would say, like, ‘Oh, just go and have a drink or take the dog for a walk.’ That’s what the doctors used to say. ‘Well, go and watch television or read a book.’ And, of course, you’ve got no interest in anything. So the only way I could express myself was writing the lyrics for [BLACK SABBATH’s classic song] ‘Paranoid’. I mean, I wasn’t depressed all the time, but when I used to get the bouts of depression, you just couldn’t explain it to anyone, and you were terrified that you go to a mental health person, maybe, and they put you in hospital for years, in a mental institution. So you’d never go to doctors or anything like that. And so you just had to get on with it. And the only way I could get it out of my system was to write the lyrics.”
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