History
"Lady in Black" has been performed in the form of rock ballads (and not having the traditional verse-chorus), has become one of the most popular concert numbers of Uriah Heep, a great success using in Germany and Russia. In the United Kingdom and United States the song has never been released as a single, but instead was released in Germany and became a major hit in 1977. It stayed on the top of charts 13 weeks, it is prevented to take top position to Paul McCartney and his hit "Mull of Kintyre". For this achievement Uriah Heep got here the award "Golden Lion", the German equivalent Grammy and Brit Awards.
"Lady in Black" is a hero of the story early Sunday morning, her long hair fluttering in the winter wind. He guesses on what grounds she finds him, in the make of destruction that are visible all round, as the result of battle in which he could not win (born...destruction lay around me from the fight I could not win).
Guests are asked to give name of his enemy, and he says, the enemy is this-people living in hunger fight and kill their brothers without thought of love and God (born...the need within some men to fight and kill their brothers without thought of love or God).
He begs the "Lady in Black" to give him horses to "trample enemies" (and I begged her to give me horses to trample down my enemies), but that it turns away from the idea of a battle that reduces man to animals which so easy to begin and yet impossible to end.
After receiving instructions from the woman he now calls "the mother of the human race" (Mother of all men), the hero, in the horror of loneliness, asks her to reach out and stay to being with her,he might be in the world. But "Lady in Black" replies: "Believe in God and believe me" (have faith and trust in me...), and that, his heart was "filed with life again"(born...she said and filled my heart with life..).
"You can not beat the number-she continues.-Do not amuse yourself with this illusion. When you need me,no doubt: I will always be near. Then she turns and walks away, he lost the power of speech, but accompanies her gaze. The narrative ends with words:
My labor is no easier but now I know I'm not alone I find new heart each time I think upon that windy day and if one day she comes to you drink deeply from her words so wise take courage from her as your prize and say hello for me...
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