Ozzy Osbourne – Crazy Train lyrics

Ozzy Osbourne – Crazy Train lyrics

All aboard! Ha ha ha ha ha ha haaaa!

Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay

Crazy, but that's how it goes
Millions of people living as foes
Maybe it's not too late
To learn how to love
And forget how to hate

Mental wounds not healing
Life's a bitter shame
I'm going off the rails on a crazy train
I'm going off the rails on a crazy train

Let's Go!

I've listened to preachers
I've listened to fools
I've watched all the dropouts
Who make their own rules
One person conditioned to rule and control
The media sells it and you live the role

Mental wounds still screaming
Driving me insane
I'm going off the rails on a crazy train
I'm going off the rails on a crazy train

I know that things are going wrong for me
You gotta listen to my words
Yeah

Heirs of a cold war
That's what we've become
Inheriting troubles I'm mentally numb
Crazy, I just cannot bear
I'm living with something' that just isn't fair

Mental wounds not healing
Who and what's to blame
I'm going off the rails on a crazy train
I'm going off the rails on a crazy train

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Songwriters: John Osbourne, Randy Rhoads, Robert Daisley

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Unregistered 2012-05-21 06:16:56

It's about all the haters in the world, all the teens dropping out of school, the media telling us who we should vote for, all the stressors and ptsds and other mental disorders now that we have to deal and live with. All because of how the world is. It's crazy and it's not going to get better! Life is a crazy train and we're all riding the rails! It's going to be a long ride too!

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Unregistered 2015-04-17 02:39:46

This song is about Ozzy and his trouble through his life. To Ozzy life was tough, he was treated as a devil worshipper but he is truly a Christian (you gotta listen to my words), because of his song Mr. Crowley. He had also had drug addictions (mental wounds not healing)and went off the wall crazy. He figured out his life might as well like he was going off the rails crazy train (even crazier. It's just a sum up oh the issues he had in a song version.

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chuckletto 2009-12-10 04:30:09

This song has withstood being completely over played. Such strong stuff, I would like to hear more of his songs are hitting the air waves though. Diary of a madman, bark at the moon, no more tears, road to nowhere, mr crowley. These are all songs that the ozzy fan knows but most average people don't. Such a shame! Randy rhoads was a amazingly talented guitarist, deserving of more respect on the radio and in other forums.

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JNKMAIL 2018-11-10 18:49:00

Seems like multiple perspective - chicken or egg.
I have watched as a family member went off the rails on a CRAZY TRAIN due to the death of a child.
Went to church and alienated self until asked to leave. EXPECTED THE PREACHER TO HEAL - MAKE HER STOP HURTING - BECOME SANE.
A psychiatrist was no good because he was supposed to tell her to make the pain stop.

Now she is an expert at why everything is bad. Why the world is in total ruin because everything that our parents and their parents (figuratively-prior generations actually) did to screw up the world and leave us in this terrible mess.

It is impossible to be happy because the scum of the past screwed it all up and left it to us.

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Unregistered 2015-01-13 17:53:36

I really think many of you have never really listened to Black Sabbath (from the beginning in 1968). Listen to War Pigs, a political protest song. This too is extremely political. We can't listen to preachers for political direction, they wish to live in yesterday. The fools are the political talking heads. The dropouts that make their own rules are in my opinion, Ozzy foreseeing the 'TeaParty'. ROCK ON OZZY!

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randyrhoadsguy 2009-03-30 21:58:32

I think it's about the cold war. I think it's just what Xxdark angel mattxx said: I think it says that a lot of people these days fight and start anarci and either just kill for fun but it also means that we shoudent do these thing we shoud help each other and love one a nother and if ur the typ of person who dos all thos things join the milatary at least there you help kill people who want to destyor our cuntry.

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fireinthesky 2008-12-16 20:54:25

I believe the song is about the trials and tribulations of hard drug use and addiction. Ozzy liked his drugs and would do pretty much anything. I am sure during his career he probably tried to clean his use up but would always fall of the wagon. In the song the rails represent a straight and clean way of living like normal society but going off the rails on a crazy train represents a drug induced state of mind.

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