unknown

I'm here in the fields
I fight for my meals
I get back into my living
I don't need to fight
To prove i'm right
I don't need to be forgiven

Don't cry
Don't raise your eye
It's only teenage wastland

Don't cry
Don't raise your eye
It's only teenage wastland

Shall i take my hand
Travel south cross the land
Put out the fire and don't look past my shoulder
The accidents is here
The happy water is here
Let's get together before we get much older

Teenage wastland
It's only teenage wastland
Teenage wastland
It's only teenage wastland
They are all wasting

I'm here in the fields
I fight for my meals
I get back into my living
I don't need to fight
To prove i'm right
I don't need to be forgiven

i can do what i want
I'm in complete control
That's what i tell myself
I've got a mind of my own
I'll be alright alone
Don't need anybody else
I gave myself a good talking to
No more being a fool for you
But i see you
And all i remember
Is how you make me want to surrender

Damn your eyes
For taking my breath away
For making me wanna say
Damn your eyes
For getting my hopes up high
For making me fall in love again
Damn your eyes

It's always the same
You say that you'll change
Somehow you never do
I believe all your lies
But look in your eyes
You make it all seem true
I guess i see what i wanna see
Or is it my heart just deceiving me

My own love said to me
"my mother won't mind.
And my father won't slight you
For your lack of kind".
He went away from me
And this he did say
"it will not be long love,
'till our wedding day"

He went away from me
And he moved through the fair
And slowly i watched him
Move here and move there
He went his way homeward
With one star awake
As the swan in the evening
Moves over the lake

I dreamed last night
That my young love came in
He came in so sweetly
His feet made no din
He stepped upside me
And this he did say
"it will not be long love
Till our wedding day"

In this proud land we grew up strong
We were wanted all along
I was taught to fight, taught to win
I never thought i could fail

No fight left or so it seems
I am a man whose dreams have all deserted
I've changed my face, i've changed my name
But no one wants you when you lose

Don't give up 'cos you have friends
Don't give up you're not beaten yet
Don't give up
I know you can make it good

Though i saw it all around
I never thought that i could be affected
I thought that we would be the last to go
It is so strange the way things turn

Don't give up you still have us
Don't give up we don't need much of anything
Don't give up
'cause somewhere there's a place
There's a place where we belong

'got to walk out of here
I can't take anymore
I'm gonna stand on that bridge
Keep my eyes down below
Whatever may come
And whatever may go
That river's flowing
That river's flowing

Moved on to another town
Tried hard to settle down
For every job, so many men
So many men no-one needs

Don't give up 'cause you have friends
Don't give up now we're proud of who you are
Don't give up you know it's never been easy
Don't give up
'cause i believe there's a place
There's a place where we belong

Black is the color of my true love's hair
Her lips are like some roses fair
She has the sweetest smile the gentlest hands
And i love the ground whereon she stands

I love my love, and well she knows
I love the ground whereon she goes
I wish the day soon would come
When she and i will be as one

And black is the color of my true love's hair
Her lips are like some roses fair
She has the sweetest smile the gentlest hands
And i love the ground whereon she stands

I go to the clyde and mourn and weep
But satisfied i never shall be
I'll write her a letter with a few short lines
And suffer death a thousand times

And black is the color of my true love's hair
Her lips are like some roses fair
She has the sweetest smile the gentlest hands
And i love the ground whereon she stands
I love the ground whereon she stands
I love the ground whereon she stands

(peter gabriel)

In this proud land we grew up strong
We were wanted all along
I was taught to fight, taught to win
I never thought i could fail

No fight left or so it seems
I am a man whose dreams have all deserted
I've changed my face, i've changed my name
But no one wants you when you lose

Don't give up
'cos you have friends
Don't give up
You're not beaten yet
Don't give up
I know you can make it good

Though i saw it all around
I never thought that i could be affected
I thought that we would be the last to go
It is so strange the way things turn

Drove the night toward my home
The place that i was born, on the lakeside
And as daylight broke, i saw the earth
The trees had burned down to the ground

Don't give up
You still have us
Don't give up
We don't need much of anything
Don't give up
'cause somewhere there's a place
There's a place where we belong

'got to walk out of here
I can't take anymore
I'm gonna stand on that bridge
Keep my eyes down below
Whatever may come
And whatever may go
That river's flowing
That river's flowing

Moved on to another town
Tried hard to settle down
For every job, so many men
So many men no-one needs

Don't give up
'cause you have friends
Don't give up
You're not the only one
Don't give up
No reason to be ashamed
Don't give up
You still have us
Don't give up now
We're proud of who you are
Don't give up
You know it's never been easy
Don't give up
'cause i believe there's a place
There's a place where we belong

A van morrison songs sinead did
As a tribute to van morrison
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Some people spend their time
Just running round in circles
Always chasing some exotic bird
I prefer to spend sometime just listening
For that special something
That i've never ever heard
I like a new song to sing, another show
Or somewhere entirely different to be
But baby, you make me feel so free

And so i yearn for mysteries calling me
That's the muse, that's the muse
But we only burn up with the passion
When there's absolutely nothing left to lose
I make it to spring
And it's no bed of roses
It's just more hard work
And bad, bad, bad company
But you make me feel so free

Baby, you make me feel so free

I heard them saying
That you can have your cake and eat it
When all i wanted was just one free lunch
How can i eat it
When the man that's next to me now
He's grabbed the load and beat me to the punch
How can i even talk about freedom
When you know it's sweet mystery
But baby, you make me feel so free

I'm gonna lay my cards right down on the table
And spin the wheel and roll the dice
And whatever way it comes out
And whatever way it turns out
Baby, you know, well that's the price
Well i order again
There's no need to explain
I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity
Baby, you make me feel so free
Baby, you make me feel so free
Free

A song sinead did together with
World party on their album
"private revolution"
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I heard about the trouble they had
Down on the farm
They say they lost all the white horses
And half of the corn
The woman of the house
She came screaming into town
We said sister why go crying
When you can watch it all burn down
And sit here dreaming
Of our hawaiian island world?

The preacher said his church has been empty
Two sundays in a row
I said no father please forgive them
For they do not what they know
Been called on by the devil
Your man from down below
And traded in their free-will
For a part in satan's show
And they don't hear the screaming
Of a dying virgin girl
They just sit there wanting
Their hawaiian island world

The shopkeeper from illinois came round
A freshly fired gun in his hand
He said he'd just shot a young poet
For writing something he didn't understand
Gone were the lines that he loved to forget
Safe were the folk words of truth would upset
With god right behind him
His gun by his side
There was nowhere for these weirdos
To run or to hide
The day of their judgement
It was due to arrive
Get them on the record
Make sure they don't survive
And we can all sit watching
Our hawaiian island world
Don't wake me 'cos i'm dreaming
Of my hawaiian island world
I just made love to my hawaiian island girl

Sometimes i feel so sad
Other times i feel so glad
I can't explain the way you play games
With my mind and soul
I only know i love you and i won't let go

I can wait till summer's end
I can wait to see you again

I can wait for summer's end
I can wait to see you again
I can wait to be your friend
Your lover, oh, once again

Have you set some test to pass
Who shall crawl on broken glass
Yes.

I can wait for summer's end
I can wait to be your friend

I am that woman,
I am that woman,
I am that woman,

It's not hard to understand

You say you miss me too
I do, do, do
I don't want no other love then you
You, you, you, you
You say you need me to
And do, do, do
I want part no other love with you

So, you can do
Anything that you want to, do
I don't want no love then you you
But you know you'd better be true
True, true, true, true,
I'll be making love with you
Soon, soon, soon, soon
I can't wait to
Someday

(original title; my donald)


My donald he works on the sea
On the waves that blow wild and free
He splices the ropes and sets the sails
While southward he rolls to the home of the whale


He ne'er thinks o' me far behind
Or the torments that rage in my mind
He's mine for only half part of the year
Then i'm left all alone wi' nocht but a tear


Ye ladies wha' smell o' wild rose
Think ye for your perfume tae whaur a man goes
Think ye o' the wives and the bairnies wha' yearn
For a man ne'er returning frae hunting the sperm


My donald he works on the sea
On the waves that blow wild and free
He splices the ropes and sets the sails
While southward he rolls to the home of the whale

(schwandt/ andre/ kahn)

Stars shining bright above you
Night breezes seem to whisper i love you
Birds singing in the sickormore tree
Dream a little dream of me

Saying nighty-night and kiss me
Just hold me tight and tell me you

The bells of the angelus
Called us to pray
In sweet tones announcing
The sacred ave
Ave, ave, ave maria
Ave, ave, ave maria

In heaven the blessed
Your glory proclaim
On earth, now, your children
Invoke your fair name

Ave, ave, ave maria
Ave, ave, ave maria

(peter gabriel)

I caught sight of my reflection
I caught it in the window
I saw the darkness in my heart
I saw the signs of my undoing
They had been there from the start
And the darkness still has work to do
The knotted chord's untying
They're heated and they're holy
Oh they're sitting there on high
So secure with everything they're buying

In the blood of eden
Lie the woman and the man
With the man in the woman
And the woman in the man
In the blood of eden
Lie the woman and the man
We wanted the union
Oh the union of the woman
The woman and the man

At my request, you take me in
In that tenderness, i am floating away
No certainty, nothing to rely on
Holding still for a moment
What a moment this is
Oh for a moment of forgetting,
A moment of bliss
Heyyyy

I can hear the distant thunder
Of a million unheard souls
Of a million unheard souls
Watch each one reach for creature comfort
For the filling of their holes

In the blood of eden
Lie the woman and the man
With the man in the woman
And the woman in the man
In the blood of eden
Lie the woman and the man
We wanted the union
Of the woman and the man

In the blood of eden
Lie the woman and the man
I feel the man in the woman
And the woman in the man

In the blood of eden
Lie the woman and the man
I feel the man in the woman
And the woman in the man

In the blood of eden
We've done everything we can
In the blood of eden
Saw the end as we began
With the man in the woman
And the woman in the man
It was all for the union
Oh, the union of the woman,
The woman and the man.

(b.marley)


Old pirates yes they rob i
Sold i to the merchant ships
Minutes after they took i
From the bottomless pit
But my hand was made strong
By the hand of the almighty
We forward in this generation
Triumphantly
All i ever had, is songs of freedom
Won't you help to sing,
These songs of freedom
Cause all i ever had,
Redemption songs
Redemption songs

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds
Have no fear for atomic energy
Cause none of them can stop the time
How long shall they kill our prophets
While we stand aside and look
Some say it's just a part of it
We've got to fullfill the book

Won't you help to sing, these songs of freedom
Cause all i ever had, redemption songs
Redemption songs, redemption songs

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but oursekves can free our minds
Have no fear for atomic energy
Cause none of them can stop the time
How long shall they kill our prophets
While we stand aside and look
Yes some say it's just a part of it
We've got to fullfill the book

Won't you help to sing, these songs of freedom
Cause all i ever had, redemption songs
All i ever had, redemption songs
These songs of freedom

Sing love with me children
Sing love with me children
Sing love with me children
Sing love with me children
Sing love with me children
Sing love with me children
Sing love with me children
Sing love with me children
Sing love with me children
Sing love with me children
Sing love with me children

Sometimes i feel like a motherless child
Sometimes i feel like a motherless child
Sometimes i feel like a motherless child
Long way from my home

Sometimes i wish i could fly
Like a bird up in the sky
Sometimes i wish i could fly
Like a bird up in the sky
Sometimes i wish i could fly
Like a bird up in the sky
Little closer to my home

Motherless children have a real hard time
Motherless children have-a real hard time
Motherless children have such a real hard time
A long way from home

Sometimes i feel like a motherless child
Sometimes i feel like a motherless child
Sometimes i feel like a motherless child
Long way from my home

Sometimes i feel like freedom is near
Oh, sometimes i feel like freedom is here
Sometimes i feel like freedom is near
But we're so far from home

Sometimes i feel like it's close at hand
And sometimes i feel like it's close at hand
Sometimes i feel like the freedom is so near
But we're so far away from home

Motherless children have a real hard time
Motherless children have-a real a hard time
Motherless children have a really hard time
Sometimes, sometimes, sometimes, sometimes, sometimes
So far, so far, so far, so far, so far, so far, so far
Mama, from you
So far

Motherless children have a real hard time
Motherless children have-a real hard time
Motherless children have a real hard time
So far from home

4 my love this night i have
Your baby in my belly
All my life i'll love you for
The life you've given me
So love no longer be frightened
I will never leave you
Sleep safe in the night now love
Sad dreams never come true
You'll always find that one who loves you
You'll always find that one who loves you

Oh my love your love 4 ireland
Will not be in vain
"4 whomsoever god place
No man can take away"
So love no longer be violent
God's children deserve to
Sleep safe in the night now love
And have their dreams come true

Ah come back and find
That one who loves you
Ah climb back inside
The one who loves you
And feel what it's like
To love one who loves you
Ah come back and find that one

This should be played at high volume
Preferably in a residential area


She took my father from my life
Took my sisters and brothers on
I watched her torturing my child
Feeble i was then but now i'm grown

Fire on babylon
Oh yes the change has come
Fire on babylon
Fire, oh

She's taken everything i liked
She's taken every lover on
And all along she gave me lies
Just to make me think i loved her

Fire on babylon
Oh yes the change has come
Fire on babylon
Fire, oh

Life's backwards life backwards
People turn around
The house is burned the house is burned
The children are gone

Fire, fire
Fire on babylon
Oh yes the change has come
Fire on babylon
Fire, fire oh, fire oh
Fire

Move out to babylon rasta man
And leave all the wicked men -yes-
Move out to babylon rasta man
And leave all the wicked men
Now wicked shall not prosper -no-
Only righteous man shell enter
In the kingdom of jaweh the almighty
In the kingdom of jaweh the almighty

So move out to babylon rasta man
And leave all the wicked men

I'm gonna swim in the deep blue
Yes, i am swimming in the deep blue
Yes, i am coming for you jaweh, jaweh

Swimming in the deep blue
Yes, i am swimming in the deep blue
Yes, i am coming for you jaweh, jaweh

Swimming in the deep blue
Yes, i am swimming in the deep blue
I know i am loving for you jaweh, jaweh

Swimming in the deep blue
Yes, i am swimming in the deep blue
Yes, i am coming for you jaweh, jaweh

Swimming in the deep blue
Yes, i am swimming in the deep blue
I know i am loving for you jaweh, jaweh

Have i told you lately that i love you?
Have i told you there's no-one above you, above you?
Fill my heart with gladness,
Take away my sadness,
Ease my troubles that's what you do.

Oh the morning sun in all it's glory,
Greets the day with hope and comfort too,
And you fill my life with laughter.
You can make it better.
Ease my troubles that's what you do.

There's a love that's divine,
And it's yours and it's mine,
It shines like the sun.
At the end of the day.
We should give thanks and pray,
To the one.

And say;
Have i told you lately that i love you?
Have i told you there's no-one above you?
Fill my heart with gladness,
Take away my sadness,
Ease my troubles that's what you do.

There's a love that's divine,
And it's yours and it's mine,
And it shines like the sun.
At the end of the day,
We should give thanks and pray,
To the one.

And say;
Have i told you lately that i love you?
Have i told you there's no-one above you?
Fill my heart with gladness,
Take away my sadness,
Ease my troubles that's what you do.

Fill my heart with gladness,
Take away my sadness,
Ease my troubles that's what you do.

(livingston / evans)


You're near, that moment's here
I'm almost in your arms
Tonight, the mood is right
I'm almost in your arms

One sigh, one word and i
Will rush to your embrase
Say that certain word,
Sigh that certain sigh
And with all my heart,
To your arms i'll fly

It's strange,
How we are changed
By the things that seem so small
One look can write a book
One touch can say it all

We know those nights of love
And now we found our way
I'm almost in your arms
To stay

You're near, that moment's here
I'm almost in your arms
Tonight, the mood is right
I'm almost in your arms

One sigh, one word and i
Will rush to your embrase
Say that certain word,
Sigh that certain sigh
And with all my heart,
To your arms i'll fly

It's strange,
How we are changed
By the things that seem so small
One look can write a book
One touch can say it all

We know those nights of love
And now we found our way
I'm almost in your arms
Almost in your arms
Almost in your arms
To stay

I caught sight of my reflection
I caught it in the window
I saw the darkness in my heart
I saw the signs of my undoing
They had been there from the start
And the darkness still has work to do
The knotted chord's untying
They're heated and they're holy
Oh they're sitting there on high
So secure with everything they're buying

In the blood of eden
Lie the woman and the man
With the man in the woman
And the woman in the man
In the blood of eden
Lie the woman and the man
We wanted the union
Oh the union of the woman
The woman and the man

My grip is surely slipping
I think i've lost my hold
Yes, i think i've lost my hold
I cannot get insurance anymore
They don't take credit, only gold
Is that a dagger or a crucifix i see
You hold so tightly in your hand
And all the while the distance grows between you and me
I do not understand

In the blood of eden
Lie the woman and the man
With the man in the woman
And the woman in the man
In the blood of eden
Lie the woman and the man
We wanted the union
Oh the union of the woman
The woman and the man

At my request, you take me in
In that tenderness, i am floating away
No certainty, nothing to rely on
Holding still for a moment
What a moment this is
Oh for a moment of forgetting, a moment of bliss
Heyyyy

I can hear the distant thunder
Of a million unheard souls
Of a million unheard souls
Watch each one reach for creature comfort
For the filling of their holes

In the blood of eden
Lie the woman and the man
With the man in the woman
And the woman in the man
In the blood of eden
Lie the woman and the man
We wanted the union
Of the woman and the man

In the blood of eden
Lie the woman and the man
I feel the man in the woman
And the woman in the man

In the blood of eden
Lie the woman and the man
I feel the man in the woman
And the woman in the man

In the blood of eden
We've done everything we can
In the blood of eden
Saw the end as we began
With the man in the woman
And the woman in the man
It was all for the union
Oh, the union of the woman, the woman and the man.

(patrick kavanagh)
Performed at some concerts during her tour in 1995

On raglan road on an autumn day
I saw her first and knew,
That her dark hair would weave a snare
That i might one day rue.
I saw the danger yet i walked
Along the enchanted way.
And i said, "let grief be a fallen leaf
At the dawning of the day."

On grafton street in november,
We tripped lightly along the ledge
Of a deep ravine where can be seen
The worth of passions pledge.
The queen of hearts still making tarts
And i not making hay.
Oh, i loved too much by such, by such
Is happiness blown away.

I gave her gifts of the mind,
I gave her the secret sign that's known
To the artists who have known the true
Gods of sound and stone.
And word and tint i did not stint
For i gave her poems to say.
With her own name there and her dark hair,
Like clouds over fields of may.

On a quiet street where old ghosts meet
I see her walking now,
Away from me so hurriedly.
My reason must allow,
That i had ruled, not as i should.
A creature made of clay.
When the angel woos the clay,
He'll lose his wings at the dawn of day.

Petit poulet
Tout c'est okay
Maintenant bebe tout c'est okay
The life you left behind won't find you
The love you kept inside will come
And even when your own heart blinds you
Nothing undoes the work you've done

The sun's still in the sky
The moon is there at night
The ground is still underfoot
And still holds you

Petit poulet (little chicken)
Tout ca c'est ok (everything is alright)
Maintenant bebe (now baby)
Tout ca c'est ok (everything is alright)


There isn't any answer to the question
You only learn to live with it
There isn't any answer in religion
Don't believe one who says there is

But... the voices are heard
Off all who cry
I am around you as long in the night
Kissing your plight
Baby child
Kissing your plight
Kissing your plight

I am the sun up in the sky
I am the moon also at night
I am the ground under your foot
I am holding you

Petit poulet (little chicken)
Tout ca c'est ok (everything is alright)
Maintenant bebe (now baby)
Tout ca c'est ok (everything is alright

Sarah mclachlan & sin

A song sinead did on the chieftains
Cd called "the long black veil"
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As down the glen one easter morn
To a city fair rode i,
Their armed lines of marching men
In squadrons passed me by.
No pipe did hum, no battle drum
Did sound its loud tattoo
But the angelus' bells o'er the liffey's wells
Rang out in the foggy dew.

Right proudly high in dublin town
Hung they out a flag of war.
'twas better to die 'neath an irish sky
Than at suvla or sud el bar.
And from the plains of royal meath
Strong men came hurrying through;
While brittania's huns with their long-range guns
Sailed in through the foggy dew.

The bravest fell, and the requiem bell
Rang mournfully and clear
For those who died that easter-tide
In the springing of the year.
While the world did gaze with deep amaze
At those fearless men but few
Who bore the fight that freedom's light
Might shine through the foggy dew.

And back through the glen i rode again
And my heart with grief was sore
For i parted then with valiant men
Whom i never shall see more
But to and fro
In my dreams i go
And i kneel and pray for you
For slavery fled
Oh, glorious dead
When you fell in the foggy dew

There is a house in new orleans,
They call the rising sun.
And it's been the ruin of manys a poor boy,
And god, i know i'm one.

My mother was a tailores
She sewed my new blue jeans
An' my father was a gamblin' man
Down in new orleans.

Now the only thing a gambler needs
Is a suitcase and a trunk.
And the only time that he's satisfied
Is when he's down and drunk.

So mothers tell, tell your children
Not to do what i have done
Not to spend their lives in sin and misery
In the house of the rising sun.

I've got one foot on the platform
And another one on the train.
I'm going home to new orleans
To wear that ball and chain.

There is a house in new orleans,
They call the rising sun.
And it's been the ruin of manys a poor boy,
And god, i know i'm one.

Poor, poor boy
Poor, poor boy
Poor, poor boy
Poor, poor boy
Poor, poor boy
Poor, poor boy
Poor, poor boy
Poor, poor boy
Poor, poor boy
Poor, poor boy

A song by a band called "marxman" containing
Background vocals by sinead.
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A thousand cultures stolen ships that came sailing
Sighted from the shoreline people stood waiting
But armies came invading and raiding to conquer
Understood nothing of a land that stood longer
But might was much stronger than right could ever be
Took away the land planned a new destiny
Butchery and murder and still i say murder
Butchery and murder and still i say murder

Wait! hold up cos phrase will break the mould
Culture growing stronger aging never old
Death accelerating, and i don't want to die
Fish hooked by a ship, lord take me where i lie
Gone where the lucky ones, disease or suicide
The pride of survivors to cry for those that died
To resurrect the status and overcome the ploy
No bells or beads to barter for this young black boy

Ship ahoy
Lord take me where i lie, don't let my children die
Ship ahoy
Lord take me where i lie, don't let my children die

Gone are the days now the ships cease to sail
I don't think so what does a wage entail
Nine of five slavery or a twenty four seven
Most slaves tricked by the promise of a heaven
Controlled by the sound of a whip that goes sack
Mind - forged manacles make sure there's no slack
Think your not a slave, cos no whip marks your back
Now a bureaucrat wields the nine tails of the cat

Ain't nothing changed but the weather the song remains the same
Hollis comes left set up upon the lamebrain
You can't tame the beast, the beast can't be changed
Have to smash the system, wisdom rearranged
Slavery claimed to be histories mystery
Wished it could be....it's still part of we
Search and look around my birthplace is torn
But england has fallen dusk negates dawn

Ship ahoy
Lord take me where i lie, don't let my children die
Ship ahoy
Lord take me where i lie, don't let my children die

Ship ahoy, ship ahoy, now they call it perestroika
Mandela's free but still can't stop the slaughter
Now they call it free trade, free choice for all
But the real freedom is ten per cent small
Freedom is a song which the caged bird sings
They keep the key all we see is the keyring
Fooled by the glisten, but the glisten is not gold
And i will not buy the beads that i'm sold

I stand here stand clear truth be my witness
How many hitlers before you see the litmus
Test i won't rest, slave who won't behave
And no i want not the freedom of the slave
If the east wants the beast let the beast roam
Cos in the east the death of the beast was sown
You can fool the people that they're equal
But you won't fool me with a sequel

Ship ahoy
Lord take me where i lie, don't let my children die.
Ship ahoy
Lord take me where i lie, don't let my children die.


Don't let my children die
Don't let my children die

Lord take me where i lie, don't let my children die.
Don't let my children die
Children
Don't let my children die
Children
Don't let my children die
Children
Etc.....

A song sinead sung together with
Jah wobble on his album
"rising above bedlam"
--------------------------------
I'm not numbed that anymore
Not longer feel the hate and pain
No longer dranched in shame
I'm not numbed that anymore
Now i am the key to the door
The kingdom of heaven lies inside
Makes a cirlce with the turning tide
Now the circle is complete
And the heart and mind they need
The kingdom of heaven lies inside

I love visions of you endlessly
I love visions of you endless

It's a vision for me and for you
Hell can be a circle too
With pentation unbroken <---??
And the truth remains unspoken
A vision for me and for you

I love visions of you endlessly
I love visions of you endlessly
I love visions of you endlessly
I love visions of you endlessly

I love visions of you endlessly
I love visions of you endlessly

I'm not numbed that anymore
No longer feel the hate and pain
No longer dranched in shame
I'm not numbed that anymore
Now i am the key to the door

I love visions of you endlessly
I love visions of you endlessly
I love visions of you endlessly
I love visions of you
I love
Visions of you
I love visions of you endlessly
I love
Visions of you

Her body lies under ashen skies
She travelled far with no guiding star
Deep down inside an angel cries
Suffer the children in quiet despair
Love soon come my only prayer

Refrain:
Josey walsh come back
All is forgiven
Josey walsh come back
No kindness forbidden
Heaven has you again
The angles sing away the pain

You sacred man of the heaven sent
Did not survive to see 35
Deep down inside and angel cries
She was once somebody's baby
Someone's baby

Refrain 2 x

Her body lies under ashen skies
She's travelled far with no guiding star
Deep down inside an angel cries
Dying so lonely
Seem like solitude

Refrain

It only made sense when she was under the influence
And she fell into decline to the soundtrack from patsy cline, patsy cline

Refrain 2x

Have you seen the old man, in the closed-down market
Kicking up the papers, with his worn-out shoes?
In his eyes you see no pride, hands held loosely by his side
Yesterday's papers, telling yesterday's news

So how can you tell me, you're lonely
And say for you the sun won't shine?
Let me take you by the hand,
And lead you through the streets of london
I'll show you something, to make you change your mind

Have you seen the old girl, who walks the streets of london
Dirt in her hair, and her clothes in rags?
She's no time for talking, she just keeps right on walking
Carrying her home, in two carrier bags

So how can you tell me, you're lonely
And say for you the sun won't shine?
Let me take you by the hand,
And lead you through the streets of london
I'll show you something, to make you change your mind

In the all-night cafe, at a quarter past eleven
Same old man sitting there, on his own
Looking at the world, over the rim of his tea-cup
Each day lasts an hour, then he wanders home alone

So how can you tell me, you're lonely
And say for you the sun won't shine?
Let me take you by the hand,
And lead you through the streets of london
I'll show you something, to make you change your mind

Have you seen the old man,
At the seaman's mission,
Memories fading
with the blue ribbon that he wears,
In this winter city, the rain cries a little pity,
For one more forgotten hero
And the world that doesn't care.

So how can you tell me, you're lonely
and say for you the sun won't shine?
Let me take you by the hand
And leads you through the streets of London
I'll show you something,
To make you change your mind...........

My only love
What will happen to me
What will happen to me
When you are gone

I'm frightened love
What will god do to me
What will god do to me
When i am all alone

Child i won't be gone
See i am in your soul
And in your song
The calling of your heart has brought me in

So good morning love
Shall i kiss your face
Shall i give you a taste
Of what i'm dreaming of

Child, i can't be gone
See i am in your soul
And in your song
The calling of your heart has brought me on

So good morning love
Shall i kiss your face
Shall i give you a taste
Of what i'm dreaming of

You're my only love
You're my softest love
My only love
Oh--
Oh--
You're my softest love

Children be still,

Lace curtains drawn,
For self respect
Ripped down and torn
Now the neighbours will never forget
Don't let them forget

Time get hard then get harder still
I will be still

Crack in the pain
The gap between
Those who remain
Those who have been
I'm cracked, i'm scratched
Bloody but one thing
One thing stays the same

Time get hard then get harder still
I will be still
Time get hard then get harder still
I will be still

Children be still
Children be still

Birthday present
From the rag & bone shop
A heart that works to well
A heart that won't stop
Beating
But sometimes i wish it would stop

Time get hard then get harder still
I will be still
Time get hard then get harder still
I will be still
Time get hard then get harder still
I will be still
Time get hard then get harder still
I will be still

Children be still
Children be still
Children be still

There's a woman in erin who'd give me shelter and my fill of ale;
There's a woman in ireland who'd prefer my strains to strings being played;
There's a woman in eirinn and nothing would please her more
Than to see me burning or in a grave lying cold.

There's a woman in eirinn who'd be mad with envy if i was kissed
By another on fair-day, they have strange ways, but i love them all;
There are women i'll always adore, battalions of women and more
And there's this sensuous beauty and she shackled to an ugly boar.

There's a woman who promised if i'd wander with her i'd find some gold
A woman in night dress with a loveliness worth more than the woman
Who vexed ballymoyer and the plain of tyrone;
And the only cure for my pain i'm sure is the ale-house down the road.

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 wall ?
Mother should i run for president ?
Mother should i trust the government ?
Mother will they put me in the firing line ?
Oooh is it just a waste of time ?

Hush now baby, baby don't you cry.
Mama's gonna make all of your nightmares come true.
Mama's gonna put all of her fears into you.
Mama's gonna keep you right here under her wing.
She won't let you fly but she might let you sing.
Mama will keep baby cosy and warm.
Ooooh babe,
Ooooh babe,
Ooooh babe,
Of course mama's gonna help build the wall !

Mother do you think she's good enough,
For me?
Mother do you think she's dangerous,
To me?
Mama will they tear little boy apart?
Oooh,
Mother will she break my heart?

Hush now baby, baby don't you cry.
Mama's gonna check out all your girlfriends for you.
Mama won't let anyone dirty get through.
Mama's gonna wait up untill you get in.
Mama will always find out where you've been.
Mama's gonna keep baby healthy and clean.
Ooooh babe,
Ooooh babe,
Ooooh babe,
You'll always be a baby to me !

Mother, did it need to be so high ?

(trad. arr: paddy moloney)
From the cd: long journey home


O, father dear, i oft times heard you talk of erin's isle,
Her lofty scene, her valleys green, her mountains rude and wild
They say it is a pretty place where in a prince might dwell,
Oh why did you abandon it, the reason to me tell?

Oh son i loved my native land with energy and pride
'til a blight came over on my crops, my sheep and cattle died,
The rent and taxes were so high, i could not them redeem,
And that's the cruel reason why i left old skibbereen.

Oh, it's well i do remember that bleak december day,
The landlord and the sheriff came to drive us all away
They set my roof on fire with their demon yellow spleen
And that's another reason why i left old skibbereen.

Your mother too, god rest her soul, fell on the snowy ground,
She fainted in her anguish seeing the desolation round.
She never rose but passed away from life to mortal dream,
She found a quiet grave, my boy, in dear old skibbereen.

And you were only two years old and feeble was your frame,
I could not leave you with your friends, you bore your father's name,
I wrapped you in my c

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

This is to be with you
To hold you and to kiss you too
For when you need me i will do
What your own mother didn't do
Which is to mother you

All the pain that you have known
All the violence in your soul
All the 'wrong' things you have done
I will take from you when i come
All mistakes made in distress
All your unhappiness
I will take away with my kiss, yes
I will give you tenderness

For child i am so glad i've found you
Although my arms have always been around you
Sweet bird although you did not see me
I saw you

And i'm here 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

(traditional scottish song)

[performed sometimes live at concerts]

Harking is bonny and there lives my love
My heart lies on him and will not remove
It will not remove ohh for all that i have done
Ohh i never will forget me love anachie
For anachie gordon he's bonny and he's rough
He'd entice any woman that ever he saw
He'd entice any woman and so he has done me
O i never will forget me love anachie

Down came her father and he's standing by the door
Saying jeannie your trying the tricks of a whore
You care nothing for a man who cares so very much for thee
You must marry lord sultan and leave anachie
For anachie gordon he's barely but a man
Although he may be pretty but where are his lands
O the sultan's lands are broad and his towers they are high
You must marry lord sultan and leave anachie

With anachie gordon i'd beg for my bread
And before i'll marry sultan it's gold to my head
With gold to my head and gowns fringed to the knee
And i'll die if i don't get me love anachie
And you that are my parents to church you may me bring
But unto lord sultan i'll never bear a son
To a son or a daughter i'll never bow my knee
And i'll die if i don't get me love anachie

Jeannie was married and from church she was brought home
And when she and her maidens so merry should have been
When she and her maidens so merry should have been
She went into her chamber, she cried all alone

Come to bed now jeannie me honey and my sweet
For the style you my mistress it would be so sweet
Being mistress or jeannie it's all the same to me
But in your bed lord sultan i never will lie
And down came her father and he's spoken with reknown
Saying you that are her maidens go loosen off her gowns
But she fell down to the floor so close down by his knee
Saying father look i'm dying for me love anachie

The day jeannie married was the day that jeannie died
And the day that young anachie came home on the tide
And down came her maidens all wringing of their hands
Saying lord it's been so long you've spent so long on the sands
Ohh so long on the sands, o so long upon the flood
They have married your jeannie and now she lies dead.

You that are her maidens come take me by the hand
And take me to the chamber that me love she lies in
And he's kissed her cold lips 'til his heart has turned to stone
And he's died in the chamber that his love she lies in.

In dublin town
Where i did dwell
A butcher boy
I loved so well
He courted me
My life away
And now with me
He will not stay

I wish i wish
But i wish in vain
I wish i was
A maid again
But a maid again
I ne'er can be
Till apples grow
On an ivy tree

She went upstairs
To go to bed
And calling to
Her mother said
Bring me a chair
Till i sit down
And a pen and ink
Till i write down

I wish i wish
But i wish in vain
I wish i was
A maid again
But a maid again
I ne'er can be
Till apples grow
On an ivy tree

He went upstairs
And the door he broke
And found her hanging
From her rope
He took his knife
And cut her down
And in her pocket
These words he found:

"oh, make my grave
Large, white and deep
Put a marble stone
At my head and feet
And in the middle
A turtle dove
So the world may know
I died of love".

(this song is never released thus far)

"which is a song of mine, which i made to sooth hurt babies"
- sinead o'connor

Petit poulet,
Tout sans, c'est ok,
Maintenant bebe,
Tout sans, c'est ok,

The life you left behind won't find you,
The love you kept inside will come,
And even when your own heart blinds you,
Nothing undoes the work you've done,
The sun is still in the sky,
The moon is there at night,
The ground is still underfoot,
And still holds you,

Petit poulet,
Tout sans, c'est ok,
Maintenant bebe,
Tout sans, c'est ok,

(music by u2, lyrics by bono, performed by u2 and sinead)
From the cd the end of violence


It's a beautiful day today
Everything is going my way
Even the words doing what i say
Oh babe...got to get away
To be impossible isn't that difficult
In the city you're invisible
When you come from a small town
Everything is alright
Everything is alright
I'm not your baby please

A tourist in a traffic jam
Babysham handycam
I'm not your mother you're not my man
I'm not your baby
Don't treat me like i'm a trick
I won't treat you like you're a prick
Don't need no doctor i'm not ill
I'm not your baby
Everything is alright
Everything is alright
I'm not your baby please

Cut out the poetry
Let's hit the main artery
No time for a tournequay
Let the colours all run out on me
You brought me all kinds of goods
Now my heart is so full up it hurts
It's heavy as a shopping bag
It's full of things i should give back
Everything is alright
Everything is alright
I'm not your baby please

I'm not your baby
I'm not your baby

Don't want you to cover me
Smother me or mother me
I like to feel this incomplete
I'm not your baby
Everything is alright
Everything is alright
I'm not your baby please

Bono: (while sinead sings: feels so good, feels so good)
Feel not dizzie just busy
Didn't drink nothing fizzy
No pills to feel easy
Don't know what got in to me
Daylight is a kinda robbery
The night is your geography
So you're not white, you're pink and rosy
You could be right but you're way above me
Me i'm in recovery a star of pornography
I'm a tourist there's a lot to see
You don't like the photographs of me
So you've got a lot to say
You don't sleep around but sometimes you stray
You don't belief oftentimes you pray
For something...what is it babe?

Don't treat me like i'm a trick
Won't treat you like you're a prick
Don't need no doctor i'm not sick
I'm not your baby
Everything is alright
Everything is alright
I'm not your baby please

I'm not your baby
I'm not your baby
I'm not your baby
I'm not your baby
I'm not your baby
I'm not your baby
I'm not your baby

(waterboys/ jagger-richards)
Live version recorded on 11 april 1986, sinead was doing the backing
Vocals on this song which included a piece of satisfaction from
The rolling stones.


Ooh!
...let me see the savage
I want to see the savage
Coming crashing through your face
I want to be there
When the savage comes
I want to be there
When the savage comes
When your savage earth heart
Cuts through
I wan be a witness
Send you respect into your ear that i'll be back
Trust in the shadows

I want to be there
When the savage comes
I want to be there
When the savage comes
When your savage earth heart
Cuts through!

Will you lay all of your deepest wildest secrets bare?
Will you let all of those rumbling old gods take rage?

I want to be there
When the savage comes
I want to be there
When the savage comes
When your savage earth heart
Cuts through!

Then i was taken smoothly by the vulture of the soul
That hideous strength
That numbs my tongue
And he led me like a born sinner
Through the fields of hell
To doubt my friends and to hate myself
But when the savage earth heart
...cuts through
When my savage earth heart
...cuts through
Then my savage earth heart
...cuts through!
And the culture of the soul laid waste.
The hate, the hate, the hate, the hate, the hate

I can't get any satisfaction
I can't get any satisfaction
When i'm driving in my car
And a man comes on the radio
He's telling me more and more
About some useless information
Supposed to drive my imagination
But he can't be a man 'cause he doesn't smoke
Six cigarettes, six cigarettes
Six cigarettes, six cigarettes

I can't get no
I can't get any satisfaction
I can't get any satisfaction
When i'm driving around the world
And i'm trying to please some girl
Saying baby baby come back
Maybe next week
'cause you see i'm on a losers street
I can't get no
I can't get any satisfaction
No satisfaction
No satisfaction
No satisfaction

A song sinead did together with the the on
Their album called "mind bomb"
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Tell me what you're thinking baby
You heart's beating faster than mine
And i know something's going on
In your life
Your life
Your life

You were the girl i wanted to cry with
You were the girl i wanted to die with

And you were the boy who turned in to the man
Broke my heart & let go of my hand
Our bed is empty
The fire is out
And all the love we've got to give
Has all spurted out
There's no more blood and no more pain
In our kingdom of rain

You think you know about life
You think you know about love
But when you put your hands inside me
It doesn't even feel like i'm being touched

You were the boy i wanted to cry with
You were the boy i wanted to die with
You've moved further from my side
Year by year
While still making love
Dutifully sincere
But as silent as the car lights
That move across this room
As cold as our bodies silhouetted by the moon
And i would lie awake & wonder
Is it just me
Or is this the way that love is supposed to be?

Tell me what you told him baby
My heart's beating out of time in my mind
And i know something's going wrong
In our lives

I just wanted somebody to caress, this damsel in distress.
I just wanted somebody to undress, this damsel in distress.
I just wanted somebody to bless, this damsel in distress.
I just wanted somebody to possess, this young girl

Our bed is empty
The fire is out
And all the love we've got to give
Has all spurted out
Our bed is empty
The fire is out
And all the love we've got to give
Has all spurted out
Our bed is empty
The fire is out
And all the love we've got to give
Has all spurted out

There's no more blood and no more pain
In our kingdom of rain...

This gerswin song is sung by sinead
As a tribute to george gerswin
-----------------------------------
My man's gone now, ain't no use a listening
For his tired footsteps, climbing up the stairs.
Ah, oh, old man sorrow's come to keep me company
Whispering beside me when i say my prayers.

Ain't that a mine working
Working i and i travellers
Journeying together to the promised land
But old man sorrow's marching all the way with me,
Telling me i'm old now since i lost my man
Since i lost my man.

Old man sorrow's sitting by the fireside,
Lying all night long by me in the bed.
Telling me the same thing morning, noon and evening,
That i'm all alone now since my man is dead.
Ah, since my man is dead.
Ooohhhhooo...

Traditional song
Sung by shane mcgowan and sinead o'connor
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I've been a wild rover for many's the year
And i spent all me money on whiskey and beer
But now i'm returning with gold in great store
And i promise to play the wild rover no more

And it's no nay never
No nay never no more
Will i play the wild rover
No never no more

But i went to an ale house i used to frequent
And i told the landlady me money's all spent
But i asked her for credit she answered me nay
Sure a custom like yours i can have any day

And it's no nay never
No nay never no more
Will i play the wild rover
No never no more

I lent from my pocket i took sovereigns bright
And the landlady's legs opened wide with delight
She says i have whiskey and wines of the best
And the words that i spoke were to ya only in jest

And it's no nay never
No nay never no more
Will i play the wild rover
No never no more
But i'll go home to my parents confess what i've done
And i'll ask them to pardon their prodigal son
And if they'll embraced me as oft times before
I promise to play the wild rover no more

And it's no nay never
No nay never no more
Will i play the wild rover
No never no more

And it's no nay never
No nay never no more
Will i play the wild rover
No never no more..

Once upon a time there were
Irish ways and irish laws
Villages of irish blood
Waking to the morning
Waking to the morning

Then the vikings came around (1)
Turned us up and turned us down
Started building boats and towns
They tried to change our living
Tried to change our living

Cromwell and his soldiers came (2)
Started centuries of shame
But they could not make us turn (3)
We are a river flowing
We're a river flowing

Again, again the soldiers came
Burnt our houses stole our grain
Shot the farmers in their fields
Working for livings
Working for a living

800 years we have been down (4)
The secret of the water sound
Has kept the spirit of a man
Above the pain descending
Above the pain descending

Today the struggle carries on
I wonder will i live so long
To see the gates being opened up (5)
To a people and their freedom
A people and their freedom

Once upon a time there was
Irish ways and irish laws
Villages of irish blood
Waking to the morning
Waking to the morning


Notes

(1)
The first documented viking landing took place in 795. until the
Anglo-norman invasion in 1170 the vikings would play an important
Role in ireland, both politically and economically. they created trade
Routes, founded kingdoms, and built the first towns in ireland,
Including dublin, cork and limerick.

(2)
Oliver cromwell landed in ireland in august 1649 at the head of a
Huge army, by may 1650 he had crushed opposition in all but the west.
(by 1652 the irish population had fallen to .7 m. in 1641 it had
Been 1.5 m. by 1660 .5 m cattle were being exported annually to
England.)

(3)
Both cromwell's and subsequent colonisation campaigns used the twin
Techniques of "planting" english and scotish settlers and forcing
Some locals to change or "turn" their religion to the protestant
Faith. so here he uses the ambiguity of the term "turn" to echo both
The image of the unbowed irish peasant and a metaphor for irish
History flowing like a un-turnable river.

(4)
Since the first english invasion in 1170

(5)
"gates" here evokes both images of the be-sieged walled cities of the
17th century and also of the present day prison camps in the north
Of ireland which at the time the song was being written (in the late
1970's early 1980's) were the subject of much political campaigning
Including hunger strikes by the inmates.

Silent night,
Holy night,
All is calm,
We see,
All is bright

Round young virgin mother and child,
Holy infant so tender and mild
We say
Sleep in heavenly peace,
Sleep in heavenly peace.

Silent night,
Holy night,
Shepherds first saw the sight
Glorious streaming from heaven afar,
Heav'nly host sing allelluia
Christ the savior is born,
Christ the savior is born.

Silent night, holy night
Son of god in h'vn, love's pure light
Radiance beaming from thy holy face
With the dawning of redeeming grace
Jesus lord at thy birth,
Jesus lord at thy birth

Silent night,
Holy night,
All is calm,
We see,
All in bright

Round young virgin mother and child,
Holy infant so tender and mild
We say
Sleep in heavenly peace,
Sleep in heavenly peace.

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

This is to be with you
To hold you and to kiss you too
For when you need me i will do
What your own mother didn't do
Which is to mother you

All the pain that you have known, ohh
All the violence in your soul, ohh
All the wrong things that you have done, ohh
I will take from you when i come

For i am 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

Nine years ago i fell in love
With a lady proud and fair
So passionate were she & i
We made fire in the air
I loved her more than life itself
She loved me just the same
And it broke my heart
To think we'd part if she ended the affair
But i was brutal, i was ignorant,
I was cruel, i was brash
I never gave a damn about
The beauty that i smashed
No sadist i, i found delight in
Making my love cry

Now i'd pray for a single kiss from her
To be lashed & crucified

And now i fear this lady fair
Can never more be mine
Long gone are nights in my lonely bed
All suffering and crying
And though i fear that thru this life
She'll call me only friend
'til i'm dead and buried in my grave
My love will never end

I love you my hard englishman
Your rage is like a fist in my womb
Can't you forgive what you think i've done
And love me - i'm your woman
And i desire you my hard englishman
And there is no more natural thing
So why should i not get loving
Don't be cold englishman

How come you've never said you love me
In all the time you've known me
How come you never say you're sorry
And i do

Ah, please talk to me englishman
What good will shutting me out get done
Meanwhile crazies are killing our sons
Oh listen - englishman
I've honoured you - hard englishman
Now i am calling your heart to my own
Oh let glorious love be done
Be truthful - englishman

How come you've never said you love me
In all the time you've known me
How come you never say you're sorry
And i do
I do

(cole porter)


While tearing off
A game of golf
I may make a play for the caddy
But if i do
I don't follow through
Cause my heart
Belongs to daddy

If i invite a boy some night
To dine on my fine
Finnan haddie
I just adore his
Asking for more
But my heart belongs to daddy

Yes my heart belongs to daddy
So i simply couldn't be bad
Yes my heart belongs to daddy
Lalala, lalala, lalala

So i want to warn you, laddie
Tho' i know you perfectly swell
That my heart belongs to daddy
Cause my daddy, he treats me so well

While tearing off
A game of golf
I may make a play for the caddy
But if i do
I don't follow through
Cause my heart belongs to daddy

And if i invite a boy some night
To dine on my fine
Finnan heddie
I just adore
His asking for more
But my heart belongs to daddy

Yes my heart belongs to daddy
So i simply couldn't be bad
Yes my heart belongs to daddy
Lalala, aauuhhhoo

So i want to warn you, laddie
Tho' i know you perfectly swell
That my heart belongs to daddy
And my daddy, he treats me so well
He treats me so well

(wright, moore)

I'm ill with a fever, i feel like a child
I lay in the dark 'til morning came.
And it's so unoriginal
But i feel it worse at night
And i know it's not terminal
But i'm near half dead with fright
And freezing cold.

But sooner than wake up
To find it all unchanged
I'll sleep through the day till the daylight ends.
'cos it's so familiar
As it comes around again
The same taste to everything
The same unbroken chain
That still remains.

With morning i rise,
In dream that won't leave me,
You're sad, naked and pale

And you're reaching for the rail

You took a look inside, how could you peel away
Or braek the shell, the hurt you've hidden so well
For all your days.

And you're going down
As you slip beneath the waves,
Won't make a sound
Won't even leave a trace before you.

I hear an appalling sigh from the street below
And it's creeping fear congealed in stone
That paves the crazy road.
And all are succumbing and they look so hopelessly
At the heartbreak, it's easy to deal with,
Just take these and you'll really never feel it.

My own love said to me
"my mother won't mind.
And my daughters won't slight you
For your lack of kind".
He went away from me
And this he did say
"it will not be long, love,
Till our wedding day"

He went away from me
And he moved through the fair
And slowly i watched him
Move here and move there
He went his way homeward
With one star awake
As this swan in the evening
Moves over the lake

I dreamed last night
That my own love came in
He came in so sweetly
His feet made no din
He came close beside me
And this he did say
"it will not be long love
Till our wedding day"

It will not be long love
Long love
Long love
Love