Gets Me Through

"Gets Me Through"
Single by Ozzy Osbourne
from the album Down to Earth
B-side"No Place for Angels"
Released4 September 2001
Recorded2000
GenreHeavy metal
Length5:04
LabelSony Records
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Tim Palmer
Ozzy Osbourne singles chronology
"Back on Earth"
(1997)
"Gets Me Through"
(2001)
"Dreamer"
(2002)
Music video
"Gets Me Through" on YouTube

"Gets Me Through" is a song by English heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne from his 2001 album Down to Earth. It is both the opening track and lead single from the album. The song opens with the lyrics "I'm not the kind of person you think I am/I'm not the Antichrist or the Iron Man", explaining that Osbourne's stage persona is not his actual personality. The song's lyrics also feature Osbourne telling his fans that their appreciation "gets (him) through", hence the title.

The single peaked at number eighteen on the UK Singles Chart and number two on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.[1] In Metal Edge magazine's 2001 Readers' Choice Awards, it won "Music Video of the Year" and tied with Slipknot's "Left Behind" for "Song of the Year."[2]

  1. ^ "Billboard singles chart history-Ozzy Osbourne". Retrieved February 17, 2009.
  2. ^ Anon. (June 2002). "17th Annual Readers' Choice Awards". Metal Edge. Vol. 48, no. 2. Sterling/Macfadden Partnership. pp. 82–85.