This track is a favorite amongst Black Sabbath fans and one of the best songs on the album, it's been performed in concert numerous times and on rare occasions on "The End" tour. Butler wrote the song after the band has observed a increasing amount of US soldiers arriving in England in the late 1960s after the Vietnam War with severe drug addictions. It's about them taking heroine to forget the atrocites of war, only for them to meet Death itself.