OZZY OSBOURNE Album Features Track Inspired By LATIMER Mercy Killing

May 22, 2010

Sandra McCulloch of the Canwest News Service reports that Ozzy Osbourne's new album, "Scream", features a track inspired by Saskatchewan farmer Robert Latimer, convicted of second-degree murder in the 1993 death of his disabled daughter.

The 10th track on "Scream", due out June 22, is "Latimer's Mercy", which describes what Latimer may have felt in putting his daughter to death. The lyrics are poetic yet brutally graphic.

"The sun shines on this deadly new mourning/The church bells ring an early warning/Your eyes shine as I turn on the motor/The tears fall as the mercy gets closer."

This refrain is repeated: "Another day and another full seizure/Another pill, you spiral down deeper/Another cut by a surgical butcher/It's just a way of prolonging the torture."

Osbourne was in Toronto Wednesday (May 19) to preview the new album. During a media conference, he singled out "Latimer's Mercy" as particularly interesting: "It must be a very difficult thing when you give birth to a child that is so messed up, she doesn't have any quality of life . . . seeing her go through pain and agony," he told a reporter from Canwest News Service.

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