Black Sabbath - A National Acrobat

"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile) 03/27/2019 at 10:58 • Filed to: musiclopnik

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CalzoneGolem > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/27/2019 at 11:11

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I’ve never understood the title to this song.

jimz > CalzoneGolem 03/27/2019 at 11:16

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they were pretty much constantly wasted back then. 

Snuze: Needs another Swede > CalzoneGolem 03/27/2019 at 11:19

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From the pedia of wikis:

“’A National Acrobat’ was just me thinking about who selects what sperm gets through to the egg”, Butler explained in the liner notes to Reunion in 1998.

ETA: I never even really knew what the song was about.  Now I at least get the acrobat part.  Still not sure on the National part.  I’m going to go with a combination of JimZ and RamblinRovers responses.  

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > CalzoneGolem 03/27/2019 at 11:19

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“’A National Acrobat’ was just me thinking about who selects what sperm gets through to the egg”, Butler explained in the liner notes to Reunion in 1998.

I would assume “national” in the sense of a national champion, or e.g. an Olympian. The one sperm that somehow makes it through out of millions - something special ... or something.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Snuze: Needs another Swede 03/27/2019 at 11:36

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The collapse of all those natal possibilities into the only embryo that really ends up existing, possible futures that never exist , and whether reincarnation makes that even more interesting: things that sound awesome while on drugs .