It wasn’t just the rain falling at Ozzy Osbourne’s final resting place — it was grief in its purest, most devastating form, carried by the voice of a daughter saying goodbye to her hero.
As family, friends, and fans gathered under a gray sky to lay the Prince of Darkness to rest, it was Kelly Osbourne who brought the crowd to its knees in tears — not with a speech, but with a song.
Clutching the microphone, standing only feet from her father’s coffin, Kelly — her eyes swollen with tears — began to sing the words that once echoed through stadiums:
“I feel unhappy… I am so sad… I lost the best friend I ever had…”
The lyrics of Black Sabbath’s “Changes”, a song she had once recorded with her father in a tender duet, now took on new, unbearable meaning.
This wasn’t a performance. It was a daughter’s raw heartbreak turned into melody.
A Heart Breaking in Real Time
As Kelly sang, her eyes never left the casket — the same one she had held her father’s hand beside just days earlier. Each word cracked with pain, and by the time she reached the chorus, she could barely stand.
Behind her, Sharon Osbourne stepped forward, wrapping her arms around her daughter. But Kelly didn’t stop singing. She couldn’t. It was the only way she knew to say goodbye.
“When the shovels hit the earth,” said one mourner,
“you could feel her heart break in front of us.
It was like part of her was being buried, too.”
And when the final line drifted into silence — “We’re going through changes…” — the sky opened up, and rain began to fall.
No one moved. No one spoke.
They just let it rain — as if the heavens themselves were mourning.
The Rain Became the Mourning
Guests began to quietly wipe away their tears, many clutching umbrellas, others letting the rain fall freely on their faces — a symbolic washing of sorrow, of farewell, of memory.
“It was as if the world cried with her,” said a close friend of the family.
“That rain wasn’t cold. It was Ozzy’s last encore.”
A Goodbye Carved in Lyrics
For Kelly, who had shared the spotlight and her soul with her father for most of her life, this was not just the end of a chapter — it was the loss of her anchor, her protector, her fellow dreamer.
And while the grave was filled, and flowers were placed gently on the mound of earth, it was her voice, echoing through the rain, that will stay with everyone who was there.