In August Morrissey is releasing his new album in Sweden. One of the tracks on the album is going to be deleted from the English edition of the album. The lyrics of the song is considered to include a veiled death threat.

After earlier success with albums like Viva Hate 1988 and Vauxhall and I 1994, Steven Patrick Morrissey is releasing his ninth album - Maladjusted. The album is going to be released in the beginning of August.

The lyrics to the song "Sorrow Will Come In The End" seems to have been too much for the record label Island Records who refuses to release the track on the English edition of the album.

Morrissey sings threatening "You're going to feel the pain".

"I praise the day that brings you pain
so don’t close your eyes
A man who slits throats
has time on his hands
I’m gonna get you
So don’t close your eyes
Don’t ever close your eyes"

This is not enough, the former The Smiths singer Morrissey ends the song with the words: "You think you’ve won? Oh no"

The lyrics has been interpret as a threat against the former members of The Smiths that Morrissey have had legal conflicts with. The Swedish division of Polygram, that are distributing the record in Sweden, recesently received the information that "Sorrow..." will be on all Morrissey’s albums - except for the ones released in Great Britain.

"I don’t have any information about why", says Eva Kovacs from Swedish Polygram.

Island Records is responsible for the British release of the album while the English Mercury US is distributing the records to the rest of Europe. The Island Record version will most likely be edited.

Footnote: On Wednesday evening no one on Island Records was willing to comment on the decision about censoring one of Morrissey songs."

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