• Song:

    Hole In The Sky

  • Artist:

    Black Sabbath

  • Album:

    The Best of Black Sabba...

Black Sabbath - Hole in the Sky

From Black Sabbath's Sabotage - July, 1975

Tuning Info: Tune to C#, Andante, 105 beats/min., 4/4 count 

NOTE: Lyrics written here may not align with the tab due to space constraints.
      Multiple guitar parts may not align due to space constraints.

{inaudiable} Check It!
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I'm looking through, a hole in the sky, I'm seeing nowhere through the eyes of a lie

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I'm getting closer to the end of the line. I'm living easy where the sun doesn't shine.

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I'm living in a room without any view, I'm living free because the rent's never due

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The synonym of all the things that I've said, are just the riddles that are built in my
head

CHOURSE (1:31)

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                                     Hole in the Sky,

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                                    Gateway to Heaven,

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                                    Window in Time,
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  Through which I'll fly!

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I've seen the stars that dissappear in the sun, shooting's easy if you've got the right
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And though I'm sitting here waiting for Mars, I don't believe there's any future in
"Cause"

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                                     Hole in the Sky,

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                                    Gateway to Heaven,

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  Through which I'll fly!  Yeah!!

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I've seen the Dogs of War enjoying their feast, I've seen the Western World go down in
the East
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The Food of Love became the greed of our time, and now we're living on the profits of
crime.

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