Ozzy Osbourne: Mr. Crowley Meaning

Mr. Crowley Lyrics

Mr. Crowley, what went on in your head
Mr. Crowley, did you talk with the dead
Your life style to me seemed so tragic
With the thrill of it all
You fooled all the people with magic
You waited on Satan's call
Mr. Charming, did you think you...

1. anonymous

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   Mar 10th 2012 !⃝

   Won't you ride my white horse" is posed as a question...asking that question is the equivalent to tossing in the towel, waving the white flag, giving up. Surrendering!! that's the Symbolism of it."it's Symbolic of course" asking him to give up his evil ways...
2. anonymous

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   Jan 5th 2012 !⃝

   Research Alistar Crowley, and his influence in music, not to even mention writing the Satanic Bible,and the answer should be abundantly clear. If it is not then you must be of a very sub level intelligence, or high on Satanic drugs. Although there is always the mind control aspect that comes from listening to this type of music. Either way this world is in a state of severe ignorance, and people need to wake up,and show some caution with what they absorb.
3. anonymous

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   Dec 24th 2011 !⃝

   This song is about the British occultist Aleister Crowley. As rumors go , 'Mr.Crowley' believed he was the reincarnation of another occultist. He was born 6 months away from the guy , and if I am correct I believe he was actually born 6 months , 6 days , and 6 hours away from the guy...6-6-6.
   Mr.Crowley also practiced 'sex magik' and wrote several books on it.
   The song is more about Crowley's addiction to drugs , specifically coccaine.
4. anonymous

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   Sep 13th 2011 !⃝

   Ozzy doesn't even write his own lyrics, sillys. He's a performer, and performs songs that frighten and titilate, like an actor in a horror movie. Most of these lyrics are nonsensical, but evolve around phrases that elicit mystery and creepy-ness. Anything more is in your head.
   
   The white horse lyric is in reference to heroin. Crowley was a heroin addict, among other things (satan worshipping occultist).
5. anonymous

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   Aug 24th 2011 !⃝

   I think it was a mix of things. Talking about a Satanist after being accused of Satanism, an obsession other artists had with Aleister Crowley, a reference to the White Horseman or cocaine, or even both at the same time. Perhaps that's why it said blatantly "it's symbolic, of course".
   The point is that I think Ozzie Osbourne had this song written because he was just as curious about the subject of Mr. Crowley as we are about the definite meaning of this song.
6. anonymous

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   May 25th 2011 !⃝

   I feel this song is indeed about aleister crowley no lie there but on the other hand I feel ozzy is dissaproving crowley the words your" lifestyle to me seemed so tragic " I believe to be proof that ozzy did not agree with crowley although intrigued by crowley but I feel he did not agree. The Terrence made I hear that maidens call I feel is the Terrence to the bride of god. The words you fooled all the people with magic then you fell from this earth" I belive is also disagreeing with crowley. The list goes on but that's my two cents on the matter
7. anonymous

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   Apr 18th 2011 !⃝

   I got this from Ozzy himself, he purchased Alestar Crowley's home from Jimmy Page. Ozzy stated that the family never went into alot of the rooms, being the house was too large for their needs. One day Ozzy decides to check out the home and some of the rooms he never even been in. In one of the rooms, there were blood stains in the floor tile and he hired a crew to clean it up. The crew said that it would damage the original flooring and was not a good idea. That he should just cover it up with a rug or furnature ect. Ozzy called Page and aked about the reason the floor had blood stains on it. Page claimed that the room was used by Crowely and his followers in a ritual and the blood just happened to be left on the floor. Supposedly one of the members of the ritual died during the act and there was an investigation, causing Crowley to come to America. They had no evidence Crowley was guilty of murder. Ozzy started to get into the history of Crowely and Page gave him much info and help with reading material. Page owned all the occult bookstores in Eng back then and was interested in the occult. Ozzy thought Crowley was a interesting character and wrote the song about him.
8. leeannINwonderland

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   Apr 4th 2011 !⃝

   Don't try to figure this one out on your own. The lyrics can be interpreted, but don't go researching Aleister Crowley because it will suck you in, and you'll never know the secrets. You'll only know less than when you started. It just leaves you curious and hungry for more. Which is probably the reason Ozzy wrote this song... Although he says he doesn't remember writing it because, basically, he was fucked the shit up. :)
9. leeannINwonderland

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   Apr 4th 2011 !⃝

   Actually, I just found something pretty useful!
   Mr. Crowley was an actual person, named Aleister Crowley.
   "and they scattered the afterbirth"
   refers to the fact that when Aleister was born, they actually did scatter his mother's afterbirth, because he was born with a birthmark that was considered a "bad omen".
   
   I'm assuming that since horse usually referes to heroin, the "won't you ride my WHITE horse" Ozzy refers to is opium, Aleister's drug of choice. [I'm not so sure about this one!]
   
   "i wanna know what you meant" refers to the fact that Crowley was a devout user of the Kabbalah in his writings and one could spend an eternity "decoding" them. [or this!]
10. leeannINwonderland

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    Apr 4th 2011 !⃝

    I believe, after reading all the other interpretations, that the song was in fact about Aleister Crowley. I do not know if Ozzy did not write the song, nor does it matter. The white horse is probably symbolic of cocaine and maybe the "pale horse" that is stated in the Bible as well.
    The whole song is very easy to understand after you research Aleister Crowley. :) Look him up on wikipedia. :D
    
    AND...
    I honestly don't think that Stairway to Heaven backwards is actually satanic. I believe it is just the works of overactive imaginations...
11. anonymous

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    Jan 18th 2011 !⃝

    Mr. Crowley is simply a song about what Ozzy thinks about Crowley, probably mostly from reading books about him, pushed to him by Plant or not.
    
    It's just his opinion on him in a song, his "tragic ways", "whats going on in his head".
    
    It's a song about never really understanding a persons mentality no matter how much you read about them, and wanting to do a line with them as a result.
    
    Ozzy probably believes the best way you can understand another person is by doing some coke with em.
    
    We've all been there, someone we meet seems far too crazy for our own mentality to handle, and we become semi-obsessed with understanding them.
    
    Sorry for pretty much anything, my keyboard is broken.
    
    http://anothersunnydayinhell.wordpress.com
12. anonymous

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    Sep 22nd 2010 !⃝

    As mentioned, Ozzy never wrote a word on Blizzard of Ozz; Bob Daisley did, as well as Geezer Butler did Sabbath. Bob Daisley
    is the one to ask...
13. atm07

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    Jul 25th 2010 !⃝

    I read an article that stated that Ozzy received a note from Jimmy Page of Led Zepplin fame that ended with the salutation of, "polemically sent". Ozzy having no clue what polemically means wrote back to Page and asked him. In response Page sent him Alieter Crowley's book entitled MAGICK. The book is full of witchcraft. Anyway,Ozzy became intrigued with Crowley and thus you end up with the song. I have also read that Page went on to buy one of Crowley's old houses. By the way the term polemically comes from the Greek word polemikos which means out of war or with controversy.
14. anonymous

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    Sep 14th 2009 !⃝

    "Diary of a Madman-Ozzy Osbourne-The stories behind the songs" This book will tell you all you need to know about all his songs, no point speculating here^_^
15. anonymous

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    Aug 16th 2009 !⃝

    Without Bob Daisley's lyric writing abilities and Randy's awesome guitar work, the first two Ozzy albums would have tanked. Google Bob Daisley and see for yourself that he is the author of both albums. Ozzy couldn't write during his Sabbath years (Terry "Geezer" Butler) wrote all of the lyrics for Sabbath, and still can't write today. He puts his name as co-writer for all or most of his songs, but it's not true.
    
    Now, I'm not an Ozzy hater. I have all of Black Sabbath's and Ozzy's solo albums in my collection. I'm just stating some facts here for those who don't know. Bob Daisley and Randy Rhodes created Ozzy's first two records which were his best by far. Peace!

    This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway

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