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Aug 14, 2015
This song and "Veteran Of The Psychic Wars" were co-written by "Fantasy" author Michael Moorcock. Black Blade refers to the sword wielded by the normally very weak Prince of Melnibone', Elric, in Moorcock's books about Elric.
He was an albino with red eyes and very weak until he picked up the "Black Blade", Stormbringer. It was a weapon imbued with a VERY evil entity that took control and forced Elric to do tings he would not normally do, including killing friends, to feed the voracious appetite of the sword for SOULS! Stormbringer would literally suck out the souls of it's victims which sent them to the evil god Arioch.
Elric was even forced to kill is beloved. His life was strengthened greatly by the sword but the cost was very high. Usually Elric felt like a slave to Stormbringer, but he was addicted to the health and power the sword gave him and allowed him to be a much stronger ruler of Melnibone'.
When I first heard the song it was only a few months after reading Moorcock's books and I cheered at the fact that someone wrote about Elric and Stormbringer.
Aug 14, 2015
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My cosmic soul it goes on for eternity
This is a reference to the Cosmic Champions always fighting the same evils over and over through eternity.
But what was ACTUALLY SAID in the song is "My Cosmic CYCLES ARE for eternity"!! Listen close and you will see the line spoken and recorded is NOT what they had printed at the time.
There was an article about it long ago and I have forgotten the reason, but it was changed during the recording and they liked it better so it stuck, but it was not the lyrics as originally written, but that was what was printed at the time. This was researched by me and several friends of mine at the time during a stint in the USAF. We had nothing better to do during our spare time! ;-)
But what was ACTUALLY SAID in the song is "My Cosmic CYCLES ARE for eternity"!! Listen close and you will see the line spoken and recorded is NOT what they had printed at the time.
There was an article about it long ago and I have forgotten the reason, but it was changed during the recording and they liked it better so it stuck, but it was not the lyrics as originally written, but that was what was printed at the time. This was researched by me and several friends of mine at the time during a stint in the USAF. We had nothing better to do during our spare time! ;-)