Ozzy Osbourne takes on Jesus' Second Coming on this song, which finds The Prince Of Darkness singing: You're just a self-made messiah, selling brimstone and fire So c'mon Jesus, don't keep us waiting just for you How will I know you Mr. Jesus Christ? Have you already been here once or twice? The son of man or obsolete facade. How will I know that you're the Son of God?
In an interview with Jane Stevenson of the QMI Agency on the Jam! Music site, Osbourne remarked that he has never shied from controversy in his rock 'n' roll career: "That's what I've always done, and why should I change it now?" he said. "What that (song asks) is, 'How bad does it have to get before (Jesus returns)? If he's not coming now, what the f--- have we got to do? A nuclear war every hour? I mean, how many people have died for their religion and how many still are? I'm going to Israel this year. I'm quite interested to go because (there are) Christians and Muslims and Jewish people all in the same area. And if they can't get on, what chance has anybody got? Too many religions but only one God."
Despite his "Prince Of Darkness" image, Osbourne was actually bought up as an Anglican and sometimes went to church as a child. In an interview with Spinner UK, he was asked whether this song is questioning his faith. The ex Black Sabbath frontman replied: "No, when my house is on fire I get religious; when it's cool I don't want to know and that's the truth."
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