"Crucify the Dead" Lyrics Slash and Ozzy Osbourne

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"Crucify the Dead" Lyrics Slash (feat. Ozzy Osbourne)


The Prince of Darkness said yes to Slash's offer of collaboration and the rest is history. Said Slash of Ozzy, “Ozzy was a lot of fun. It was a real honour – he’s so busy with his stuff – and he took the time to stop and really focus on writing the lyrics for this song.

"We recorded the vocals up at Ozzy’s house, and it was funny because I’m sitting here and Ozzy’s here and we’re sitting at the control board and he’s got his microphone, and he’s working on the lyrics and he’s singing them, trying to work out how they should go. It’s such a recognisable voice!


"It was just a trip to hear Ozzy working out the parts for a piece of music that I wrote. Somebody I’d been listening to since I was a kid, all of a sudden right there. He put together a very poignant set of lyrics about a particular subject matter that a lot of us can relate to..."

What does that last line mean? Given the imagery the lyrics refer to in terms of Guns and Roses and thorns etc there has been some speculation that the song is a reference to the fractured relationship between Axl Rose and Slash. It could even be a response to GNR's Sorry which some considered to be Axl refering to Slash. It's pure speculation of course!

"Crucify the Dead" Lyrics

The fire started long ago

The flames burned out, still embers glow

So charred and black

There's nothing left to burn, to burn



We had the same dream

Lived life to extreme

A loaded gun jammed by a rose

The thorns are not around your head

Your ego cursed you till you bled

You cannot crucify the dead

To me you're dead, yeah





The future is unset in stone

Decisions past leave you alone

Betrayed us all with your own selfish greed, your greed, yeah

New soldiers now say

That your beggars collect

Re-crucified and paid by you

The thorns are not around your head

Your ego cursed you till you bled

You cannot crucify the dead

To me you're dead, yeah





We were like brothers with the world in our hands

You always have too much to say

Someday you look back and you wonder why

You let it all slip away, yeah



Crucify the dead

Crucify the dead



The thorns are not around your head

Your ego cursed you till you bled

You cannot crucify the dead

To me you're dead, yeah

Check out the lyrics to the first single off Slash's album, By the Sword or the popular Starlight.

15 comments:

  1. Wow, this couldn't be more clear attack at Axl Rose, I mean come on.
    Rose jammed in a Gun
    New soldiers...

    Jesus, did Slash really had nothing to do with the lyrics, if not then Ozzy apparently also thinks that Axl is a douche

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  2. I find it confusing, Ozzy said to Slash something like "One day you GN'R guys are gonna look back and be like...why did we fuck it up"
    Then he writes this, Slash musta had something to do with this oen song, unless it could be Ozzy about someone he feels like that about :S

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  3. I totally agree. Even if Ozzie wrote the lyrics, the reference was obvious and by allowing them to stay Slash condones their meaning.

    This is presumably slash's intent - to get people talking.

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  4. ja sam mala andrea i volim maka

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  5. If it was written by Ozzy, it may refer to Tony Iommi, who he is currently suing... may be they did actually both contribute to the lyrics...???

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  6. The line "Re-crucified and paid by you" isn't quite correct. I'm not sure that evenI have it right either..but I hear.

    "Recruited, bought and paid by you"

    Which makes more sense context wise.

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  7. Also, the line "The future is unset in stone" is wrong.

    The correct lyric is "The future isn't set in stone"

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  8. What we have here is a song about pain guilt and resentment no matter how you hash it out these lyrics are actually a painful

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  9. *your ego cut you till you bled
    got the slash pack with classic rock
    lyrics included

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  10. A la grannn definitivamente es un ataque directo a AXL actualmente estoy leyendo la biografia de Slash vere que dice mas al respecto pero esta letra lo dice todo y de hecho coincide con los comentarios que se han escuchado sobre la separaciĆ³n de Guns. Si bien es cierto que Ozzy la escribio de plano el sabe pues... no creo que se refiera a BS

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  11. I love the lyrics. It is a blueprint of the former relationship and breakup with my, ex. Except we were not "brothers". She was a fucking liar, and

    "Someday you look back and you wonder why
    You let it all slip away, yeah"

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  12. You are right mate it is "Recruited, bought and paid by you" and the song is definitely about axl

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  13. My soul cries everytime I remember this shit. They were so fucking awesome! But now eager is all that's left. I think that this song is too "definitely about axl".

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  14. no guys this aint about axl or any gnr .....
    my opinion is that he is blaming jesus christ

    The fire started long ago
    The flames burned out, still embers glow
    So charred and black
    There's nothing left to burn, to burn

    just read it
    like fight btw Good and evil has been from a long time .... now its not visible for man kind
    but still thre is evil and thre is good
    they both fight in small scale
    so he says "the flames burnt out but still embers glow"

    "We had the same dream
    Lived life to extreme
    A loaded gun jammed by a rose"

    if you have read bible then the satan offers jesus christ the whole land of earth only if he had bowed to him i guess thats what he means..

    "The thorns are knots around your head
    Your ego cursed you till you bled
    You cannot crucify the dead
    To me you're dead, yeah"

    this is purely about jesus christ
    because he didnt listen to the devil
    he got to suffer
    and jesus always went against the devil in his own way hence he says about his ego
    and because devil had offerd a chance to be his brother now he says that to me your dead
    about the crucification it is about jesus too

    well now i know this much ...... my opinion it even could be for axl rose... hehe... :-)

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  15. Axl "Someday you look back and you wonder why
    You let it all slip away, yeah"
    more that one generation can't enjoy G'N'R.

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