“No More Tears” by Ozzy Osbourne

"No More Tears" is the title track of Ozzy Osbourne's 1991 album, and it didn't come off a lyric sheet so much as out of a rehearsal-room jam. As Zakk Wylde tells it, Mike Inez got a bass line going, Randy Castillo fell in on drums, a keyboard figure crept in over the top, and the band just followed it until it was a song. Ozzy later called it a gift from God.

What they caught is a prowling, menacing thing, the bass stalking underneath while Wylde's guitar hits like a hammer and Ozzy sings with an eerie calm that turns chilling once you know the story: in the notes to the album's 2002 remaster he said it's a song about a serial killer. Duane Baron and John Purdell produced it for Epic, Michael Wagener mixed it, and a trimmed radio edit later turned up on The Ozzman Cometh.

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