Changes

About Changes

"Changes" is a song by English heavy metal band Black Sabbath. A ballad, it first appeared on Vol. 4, which was released in 1972. In 1993, Ozzy Osbourne released a live version as a single from Live & Loud album. In 2003, a version with his daughter, Kelly Osbourne was released as a single.

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The song's piano melody was composed by guitarist Tony Iommi, who was experimenting with the instrument in the studio. The lyrics were by bassist Geezer Butler, and vocalist Ozzy Osbourne has referred to the song as "heartbreaking". Quite different from Sabbath's previous work, the song was described as a "forlornly pretty" ballad by critic Barney Hoskyns. It was inspired mainly by drummer Bill Ward's break-up with his first wife.

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“Whole world's changing, even I see that now. Our time... has pretty much passed. They don't want folk like us no more. It's their rules or be damned with you. But I tried in the end... I did.”
— Arthur Morgan in Red Dead Redemption II (2018)
“When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.”
— Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland, as quoted in Douglas Macleane, Reason, Thought, and Language; Or, The Many and the One : A Revised System of Logical Doctrine in Relation to the Forms of Idiomatic Discourse (1906)
“You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.”
— Heraclitus, Fragment 41, quoted by Plato in Cratylus
“Captain James T. Kirk: But one man can change the present.”
— Star Trek: The Original Series episode Mirror, Mirror (6 October 1967) by [[w:Jerome Bixby|Jerome Bixby
“Let us convert this night we are breathing together to a bright morning.”
— Suman Pokhrel, Let Us Renovate this Night
“When the rate of change increases to the point that real time required to assimilate change exceeds the time in with change must be manifest, the enterprise is going to find itself in deep yohurt.”
— John Zachman (1994); reported in: Ronald G. Ross, Principles of the Business Rule Approach (2003), p. 35

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Cover versions

Ozzy and Kelly Osbourne version

Back to the Beginning version

Charles Bradley version

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