The first paragraph is Generals gathered in their masses Just like witches at black masses
Evil minds that plot destruction Sorcerers of death's construction. In this Black Sabbath are likening Generals of war to devil worshippers. He thinks that they are sent by death to kill people by the masses. They are made to cause mass destruction and to bring hardship upon innocent people like you and me. A couple of lines later they say "Politicians hide themselves away, they only started the war, why should they go out to fight? They leave that burden to the poor. The Poor they are speaking of are the economically poor and the poor people that must go out and fight. Keep in mind that they wrote this song in 1970, in the middle of the Vietnam war. Many unfortunate young people were being drafted and not volunteering to go out and fight a hated war that would traumatize many very young people. The Poor may represent the people who were forcefully drafted into the army. In the next lines : "Time will tell on their power minds, making war just for fun, treating people like pawns in chess, wait till their judgement day comes. It makes them look like they have no real emotions. They don't care what happens to the poor soldiers as long as it doesn't happen to them.
I like these lyrics because Black Sabbath is preaching about peace. They are showing that war is bad in their own patented grim style. It's not quite a hippie song but not quite a blood-and-guts-hair-metal-song. It's an interesting mix or hybrid. I think that they have a lot to say and i like them as artists. They have many other songs that i could've done but this was the most interesting one because it's the one thats the most like a hybrid. It has the most to say
Wow the only thing I knew about Black Sabbath was that they did the iron man song. This was a weird but interesting song, because as you stated it highly differs from the other songs on the album. Maybe other albums have one other odball song
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