The Devil You Know: Heaven & Hell

The Devil You Know is the first studio album from the heavy metal band Heaven & Hell released under the band name “Heaven & Hell”— the members had previously recorded as a group in an earlier line-up of the band Black Sabbath.

The album's cover art. 41+25 = 66

Look at the cover art closely. Some kind of demon if not the devil himself is holding a torch-like pyre of a human body with nails in it laced by a serpent. The cover art shows the numbers 41 and 25 which add to 66.

Tracks and Lyrics

All songs written by Geezer Butler, Ronnie James Dio and Tony Iommi.

1. “Atom and Evil” – 5:15 (Numerology: 11)
2. “Fear”– 4:48 (Numerology: 7)
3. “Bible Black”– 6:29 (Numerology: 8)
4. “Double the Pain”– 5:25 (Numerology: 3)
5. “Rock and Roll Angel”– 6:02 (Numerology: 8)
6. “The Turn of the Screw”– 5:02 (Numerology: 7)
7. “Eating the Cannibals”– 3:37 (Numerology: 4)
8. “Follow the Tears”– 6:12 (Numerology: 9)
9. “Neverwhere”– 4:35 (Numerology: 3)
10. “Breaking into Heaven”– 6:53 (Numerology: 5)
11. “I (live)” (iTunes exclusive Bonus track) – 6:30 (Numerology: 9)
12. “Die Young (live)” (iTunes exclusive Bonus track) – 6:46 (Numerology: 7)

Atom and Evil

Blue skies – Once upon a dream
All highs – never in-between
Then Into the Garden came the slider

I’m here for you
Said the spider to the fly
And when I’m through
You can open up your eyes to see
Your world’s on fire
And the liar won’t let go
Atom and evil

One more promise
We can tame the sun
And then we’ll shine forever

Someday you can cry for everyone
who burned when you were clever

Expand your mind
We’ve got a place for you
Just make believe
That one and one are always two
When into the parlour
Comes the slider
Say no
Atom and evil

Falling’s easy
Rising will never be
So we must rise together

Here are the changes
Power for harmony
But then there’s no forever
Atom and evil

Maybe if we cry together
Maybe if we cry as one
The tears that fall can kill the fire
And keep everyone from
Atom and evil
Atom and evil
Atom and evil
Atom and evil

Fear

If you’ve never heard before
There was once a time when only God had fire
The moon and stars and nothing more
To lead you through the night

If there’s a Hell and Satan had a daughter
He must have sent her here to hide the flame
We’re still afraid, must be he taught her so well
We’ve seen some light, so why’s it all the same

Superstition go away
We wear the mark
Fear

There’s a corner of the mind
With a door that always opens up at sundown
And what’s inside is to remind you
To hide from eyes that shine

We ran until we found we had the power
Illuminate the world and make it burn
We’re still afraid, must be that door in your brain
You’ve seen some light and you pray it will return

Superstition go away
We wear the mark
Fear

If there’s a Hell and Satan sent his daughter
She must have gotten lost and can’t go home
We’re still afraid and he can’t find her again
We’ve seen some light but it will always be the same

Evilution go away
We still share the mark
Fear

Bible Black

At last alone his fire’s dying, burned another day
Now to pretend and make up an ending, somewhere far away

He reached for a book all bound in leather
Something that he knows he’s never read
And the first page says beware you’ve found the answer
The next one says I wish that you were dead
Don’t go on, put it back, you’re reading from the Bible Black

What’s this word I see, who are you and who are me
Maybe I just stumbled in the dark
I must have been out cold, but the way the story’s told
They found me lying naked in the rain, yeah

Let me go, I’ve seen religion, but the light has left me blind
Take me back, I must have the Bible Black

Well here I go again, from the start and to the end
I wish I could remember what I’ve done
Now here’s another spell, it could take me straight to Hell
And I feel I’m getting closer to my home

Let me go, I’ve found the diction, and it makes me feel alive
Take me back, I must have the Bible Black

He locks himself away and tastes the silence
Hungry for another bite of wrong
And just the word, “Oh Lord please take me with you”
Took him to a place we don’t belong
Let him go, he can’t come back, he’s reading from the Bible Black

So if your fire’s dying, and what’s the use of trying
I may know another place that you can go
It’s hiding in the pages, but you may not come back
You’re reading from the Bible Black

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