Paranoid

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"**Paranoid**" is a song by Type O Negative, included on their second album *The Origin of the Feces*, released in 1992. It is the Black Sabbath cover but arranged in Type O style and was written by Black Sabbath members Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Ozzy Osbourne, Bill Ward. There is a riff based from the sample of "Iron Man" by Black Sabbath that begins at 2:51 and durates for 15 seconds. This bonus track came exclusively with the album reissue released in 1994 and was the first song recorded where Johnny Kelly plays the drums. "Paranoid" is about a man who is unable to cope with paranoia until he gives a woman love.

## Lyrics

Finished with my woman, she couldn't help me with my mind

People think I'm insane, cause I am frowning all the time

All the time

All the time

All day long I think these things, but nothing seems to satisfy

I think I'll lose my mind if I don't find something to pacify

Can you help him feel love

'Cause he's not made of steel

Oh no, no

Can you help him feel love

'Cause he's not made of steel

I need someone to show me the things in life that I can't find

I can't see the things that make true happiness, I must be blind

Make a joke and I will sigh, and she will laugh and I will cry

Happiness I cannot feel and love to me is so unreal

So unreal

So unreal

And so as you hear these words telling you now my state

I tell you to enjoy life, I wish I could but it's too late

Can you help me feel love

Cause I'm not made of steel

Can you help me feel love

Cause I'm not made of steel

Can you help me feel love

Cause I'm not made of steel

Can you help me feel love

Cause I'm not made of steel

## Personnel

**Group performers**

* **Peter Steele** – lead vocals, bass, arrangements
* Kenny Hickey – guitar, additional vocals
* Josh Silver – keyboards, backing vocals
* Johnny Kelly – drums

**Session performers**

* The Bensonhoist Lesbian Choir – choir

**Enginucers**

* Tony Iommi – writing
* Geezer Butler – writing
* Ozzy Osbourne – writing
* Bill Ward – writing
* Mike Marciano – engineering, mixing
* Josh Silver – samples, effects, production
* George Marino – mastering
* P.T. Barnum – production
* **Peter Steele** – production
* Bialishtok – executive production
* Bloom – executive production

## Links to other songs

1. "Unsuccessfully Coping with the Natural Beauty of Infidelity"
2. "Der Untermensch"
3. "Xero Tolerance"
4. "Prelude to Agony"
5. "Glass Walls of Limbo"
6. "The Misinterpretation of Silence and its Disastrous Consequences"
7. "Gravitational Constant: G = 6.67 × 10−8 cm−3 gm−1 sec−2"

2. "Are You Afraid"
3. "Gravity"
4. "Pain"
5. "Kill You Tonight"
6. "Hey Pete"
7. "Kill You Tonight (reprise)"
 ***Bloody Kisses***

1. "Machine Screw"
2. "Christian Woman"
3. "Black No. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All)"
4. "Fay Wray Come Out and Play"
5. "Kill All the White People"
6. "Summer Breeze"
7. "Set Me on Fire"
8. "Dark Side of the Womb"
9. "We Hate Everyone"
10. "Bloody Kisses (A Death in the Family)"
11. "3.0.I.F."
12. "Too Late: Frozen"
13. "Blood & Fire"
14. "Can't Lose You"
15. "Suspended in Dusk" (on special editions only)
16. "Black Sabbath (From the Satanic Perspective)" (on special editions only)
17. "Summer Girl" (unreleased)

1. "Bad Ground"
2. "Intro"
3. "Love You to Death"
4. "Be My Druidess"
5. "Green Man"
6. "Red Water (Christmas Mourning)"
7. "My Girlfriend's Girlfriend"
8. "Die with Me"
9. "Burnt Flowers Fallen"
10. "In Praise of Bacchus"
11. "Cinnamon Girl"
12. "The Glorious Liberation of the People's Technocratic Republic of Vinnland by the Combined Forces of the United Territories of Europa"
13. "Wolf Moon"
14. "Haunted"
15. "Outro"
 ***World Coming Down***

1. "Skip It"
2. "White Slavery"
3. "Sinus"
4. "Everyone I Love Is Dead"
5. "Who Will Save the Sane?"
6. "Liver"
7. "World Coming Down"
8. "Creepy Green Light"
9. "Everything Dies"
10. "Lung"
11. "Pyretta Blaze"
12. "All Hallows Eve"
13. "Day Tripper"

1. "Thir13teen"
2. "I Don't Wanna Be Me"
3. "Less than Zero (<0)"
4. "Todd's Ship Gods (Above All Things)"
5. "I Like Goils"
6. "...A Dish Best Served Coldly"
7. "How Could She?"
8. "Life Is Killing Me"
9. "Nettie"
10. "(We Were) Electrocute"
11. "IYDKMIGTHTKY (Gimme That)"
12. "Angry Inch"
13. "Anesthesia"
14. "Drunk in Paris"
15. "The Dream Is Dead"
16. "Out of the Fire" (bonus track)
 ***Dead Again***

1. "Dead Again"
2. "Tripping a Blind Man"
3. "The Profit of Doom"
4. "September Sun"
5. "Halloween in Heaven"
6. "These Three Things"
7. "She Burned Me Down"
8. "Some Stupid Tomorrow"
9. "An Ode to Locksmiths"
10. "Hail and Farewell to Britain"

* "Pictures of Matchstick Men"
* "On with the Show"
* "In the Flesh"
* "Back in the U.S.S.R."
* "It's Never Enough"
* "12 Black Rainbows"
* "Stay Out of My Dreams"
* "Highway Star"
* "Santana Medley"
* "If She Loved Me"
 **StereoType O Negative songs**

* "In the Name of Love (Pride)"
* "Dolce Vita"
* "Last Christmas"
* "Wicked Game"