Genius Lyrics
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Sinéad O'Connor – Nothing Compares 2 U
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Originally written and composed by Prince for one of his side projects, The Family. It was later made famous by Irish recording artist Sinéad O'Connor, whose arrangement was
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Sinéad O'Connor – Troy
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The song uses the story of the ancient city of Troy as a metaphor. The lyric “Being what you are, there is no other Troy for you to burn” is a reference to the poem “No Second Troy
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Sinéad O'Connor – Black Boys on Mopeds
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[Verse 1] / Margaret Thatcher on TV / Shocked by the deaths that took place in Beijing / It seems strange that she should be offended / The same orders are given by her / [Verse 2
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Sinéad O'Connor – Silent Night
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Silent night, holy night / All is calm, we sing, all is bright / Round yon virgin mother and child / Holy infant so tender and mild, we sing / Sleep in heavenly peace / Sleep in
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Sinéad O'Connor – Famine
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Extrapolating from her childhood experiences, O’Connor’s song ‘Famine’ blames the Great Hunger on patriarchal power structures and the colonial oppression of the British. A result
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Sinéad O'Connor – Sacrifice
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[Verse 1] / It's a human sign / When things go wrong / When the scent of her lingers / And temptation's strong / Into the boundary / Of each married man / Sweet deceit comes
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Sinéad O'Connor – Downpressor Man
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[Chorus] / Downpressor man, where you gonna run to? / Tell me, downpressor man, where you gonna run to? / Downpressor man, where you gonna run to? / Oh, on that day / [Verse 1
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Sinéad O'Connor – The Emperor's New Clothes
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[Verse 1] / It seems years since you held the baby / While I wrecked the bedroom / You said it was dangerous after Sunday / And I knew you loved me / He thinks I just became famous
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Sinéad O'Connor – This Is to Mother You
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[Verse 1] / This is to mother you / To comfort you and get you through / Through when your nights are lonely / Through when your dreams are only blue / This is to mother you / [
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Sinéad O'Connor (Ft. The Band & Roger Waters) – Mother
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Mother, do you think they'll drop the bomb? / Mother, do you think they'll like this song? / Mother, do you think they'll try to break my balls? / Ooooh, mother should I build a
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Sinéad O'Connor – Last Day of Our Acquaintance
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This is the last day of our acquaintance / I will meet you later in somebody's office / I'll talk but you won't listen to me / I know what your answer will be / I know you don't
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Sinéad O'Connor – Jump in the River
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[Verse 1] / The phone calls always left me unsure / They'd never say things of their own accord / I am preoccupied / I can't get them out of my mind / They are terrified / [Chorus
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Sinéad O'Connor – Milestones (demo)
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Magda Davitt (formerly known as Sinead O'Connor) released a demo debut song under her new name on the Irish Sun. Speaking to the Irish Sun, she said:
David wrote the music. I
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Sinéad O'Connor – Her Mantle So Green
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[Verse 1] / As I went out walking, one morning in June / To view the fair fields, and the valleys in bloom; / I spied a pretty fair maid, she appeared like a queen / With her
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Sinéad O'Connor – Drink Before the War
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A song presumably written with the Irish Republican Army in mind and included on Sinéad O’Connor’s debut album “The Lion and the Cobra”. Not released as a single from the album
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Sinéad O'Connor – Mandinka
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The song is about the entrapments of coming of age and the problems that come associated with it.
In an interview in The Tech, 12 April 1988, O'Connor said:
“Mandinkas are an
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Sinéad O'Connor – All Apologies
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[Verse 1] / What else should I be? All apologies / What else could I say? Everyone is gay / What else could I write? I don't have the right / What else should I be? All apologies
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Sinéad O'Connor (Ft. Seun Kuti) – James Brown
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[Intro] / I want you to take me out / I want you to bring me downtown / I want you to, oh show me around / I want you to take me out / I want you to bring me downtown / I want you
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Sinéad O'Connor – Jealous
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[Verse 1] / You're jealous / You just can't stand to see me get along without you / Like I do, you told me to / Now you're jealous / You don't know how hard it was to be alone
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Sinéad O'Connor (Ft. Christy Moore) – Lord Baker
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[Verse 1: Sinéad O’Connor] / There was a Lord who lived in this land / He being a Lord of high degree / He left his foot down a ship's board / And swore strange countries he would
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Sinéad O'Connor – No Man's Woman
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[Verse 1] / I don't wanna be no man's woman / It don't make me happy this mantrolling / Thing that you got for me so I become / No man's woman / I don't wanna be no man's woman / I
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Sinéad O'Connor – The Moorlough Shore
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Your hills and dales and flowery vales / That lie near the Moorlough Shore / Your vines that blow by borden's grove / Will I ever see you more / Where the primrose blows / And the
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Sinéad O'Connor – Three Babies
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O'Connor shared that “Three Babies” was written about
three miscarriages that I experienced. It is also about the four children I have, though the song is perhaps a prophecy of
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Sinéad O'Connor – In This Heart
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[Verse 1] / In this heart lies for you / A lark born only for you / Who sings only to you / My love, my love, my love / [Verse 2] / I am waiting for you / For only to adore you
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Sinéad O'Connor – VIP
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[Preacher:] / Someone say, "Boldness" / [Congregation:] / Boldness / [Preacher:] / The Bible says in Proverbs 28 verse 1 "The righteous shall be bold like a lion." Bold like a lion
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Sinéad O'Connor – Harbour
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[Verse 1] / She is a harbour / And has not harbour / She is only 'she' in inverted commas / She's not well aware / In certain areas / Lost girl in there / Building stupid castles
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Sinéad O'Connor – Jackie
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[Verse 1] / Jackie left on a cold, dark night / Telling me he'd be home / Sailed the seas for a hundred years / Leaving me all alone / And I've been dead for twenty years / I've
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Alice Donut – Sinead O'Connor On TV
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I think you're pretty and you even / Look like you've thought things out / But you're so disappointing / With your shaved head and those mystery eyes / You smile embarrassed, like
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Sinéad O'Connor – Marcus Garvey
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[Verse 1] / Marcus Garvey's words come to pass / Marcus Garvey's words come to pass / Ain't got no food to eat / Ain't got no money to spend, oh-oh-oh / Ain't got no food to eat
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Sinéad O'Connor – Queen of Denmark
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[Verse 1] / I wanted to change the world / But I could not even change my underwear / And when the shit got really really out of hand / I had it all the way up to my hairline
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Sinéad O'Connor – Thank You for Hearing Me
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According to O'Connor, this song was written as an expression of her feelings following the then-recent termination of a brief romantic relationship with English art pop musician
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Sinéad O'Connor – Take Me to Church
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[Verse 1] / I don't wanna love the way I loved before / I don't wanna love that way no more / What have I been writing love songs for / I don't want to write them anymore / I don't
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Sinéad O'Connor – Jah Nuh Dead
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They tried to fool the black population / By telling them that jah jah dead / And they tried to fool the black population / By telling them that jah jah dead.. / I & i knows jah
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Sinéad O'Connor – Curly Locks
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Curly Locks, now that I'm a dreadlocks / Your daddy don't want you dealing with me / Curly Locks, now that I'm a dreadlocks / Your mammy don't want you dealing with me / The sun is
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Sinéad O'Connor – War
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O'Connor’s version of Bob Marley’s song “War” is best remembered now for what she did on the October 3, 1992 Saturday Night Live show. She altered the wording of the sixth and
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Sinéad O'Connor – Red Football
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[Verse 1] / I'm not no red football / To be kicked around the garden / No, no / I'm a red Christmas-tree ball / And I'm fragile / I'm not no animal / Though I am to you / I'm not
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