The Illusion of Power lyrics

What is it that turns you on to the illusion of power

This thing that grabs you by the heart and makes you want to tear things down

There is no reason why I should need all this power, but if you cross me now

I'm gonna tear your whole world down

The illusion of power, things I feel, seem so real

The illusion of power

I can' get the emotional thing straight in my head

Everything I love dies to soon, or is already dead

Don't stand too close I spit and breath fire

Anything I've got now you cannot desire

You want to be my friend I promise you nothing

Nothing I can give you, nothing I can do for you

I'm being chased by the sins of my past and it's killing me now

Killing me now

The illusion of power, things I feel, seem so real

The illusion of power

The illusion of power, it's already set signed and sealed

The illusion of power

Powerful...who are you fooling?

You're caught in a complex cataclysm of your own inadequacies

And pitiful weaknesses

Your souls secretes insecurity

So you live on the reflection side of the mirror

You're terrified of true power...you fear me...

I can tell you stories of my

Shaded past and I can

Drag you down into the

Depths of my soul

The illusion of power, things I feel, seem so real

The illusion of power

The illusion of power, it's already set signed and sealed

The illusion of power

Why don't you come closer, Promise a story I will tell, yeah

I'll save you from your dreams, yeah

I'll save you from your dreams

• Artist:Black Sabbath
• Album:Forbidden (1995)