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Cad is mian leat? what do you want?
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Bi/ i do chodladh liom sleep with me
Ar mhiste leat a insint dom? do you mind telling me?
Cad is mian leat? what do you want?
An dtiocfa/ liom? will you come with me?
Cad is mian leat? what do you want?
An dtiocfa/ liom? will you come with me?

Nuair a leagan mo chrann when my tree falls
An ndeireadh tusa liom? will you tell me?
Cad is mian leat? what do you want?
An bheidh tu/ liom? will you be with me?
Cad is mian leat? what do you want?
An dtiocfa/ liom? will you come with me?

Bi/ i do chodladh liom sleep with me
Ar mhiste leat a insint dom? do you mind telling me?
Cad is mian leat? what do you want?
An dtiocfa/ liom? will you come with me?

An ndeireadh tusa liom? will you tell me?
Cad is mian leat? will you be with me?
Cad is mian leat? what do you want?
An tiocfa/ liom? will you come with me?
Cad is mian leat? what do you want?
An dtiocfa/ liom? will you come with me?


Bi/ i do chodladh liom sleep with me
Ar mhiste leat a insint dom? do you mind telling me?

As i went out walking one fine summer morning
The birds in the bushes did wistle and sing
The lads and the lasses in couples were courting
Going back to the factory their work to begin

He spied one amongst them, she was fairer than any
Her cheeks like the red rose that blooms in the spring
Her hair like a lily that grows in young valley
She was only a hard working factory girl

He stepps up beside her, more closely to be with her
She said "my young man, don't stare me so
I go all in my pocket and silver as well
No more will i answer that factory call"

Written by elton john and bernie taupin
Sung by sinead o'connor as a tribute to
Elton john and bernie taupin
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It's a human sign
When things go wrong
When the scent of her lingers
And temptation's strong

Into the boundaries
Of each married man
Sweet deceit comes callin'
And negativity lands

Cold, cold heart
Hard done by you
Some things look better baby
Just passin' through

And it's no sacrifice
Just a simple word
It's two hearts living
In two seperate worlds
And it's no sacrifice
No sacrifice
No sacrifice at all

Mutual misunderstandings
After the fact
Sensitivity builds a prison
In the final act

We lose direction
No stone unturned
No tears to damn you
When jealousy burns

Cold, cold heart
Hard done by you
Some things look better baby
Just passing through

And it's no sacrifice
Just a simple word
It's two hearts living
In two seperate worlds
But it's no sacrifice
No sacrifice
No sacrifice at all

I gave my heart
I gave my heart
I gave my heart
I gave my heart
I gave my heart
I gave my heart
I gave my heart
I gave my heart

The wretched desert takes its form, the jackal proud and tight
In search of you, i feel my way, though the slowest heaving night
Whatever fear invents, i swear it make no sense
I reach out through the border fence
Come down, come talk to me

In the swirling, curling storm of desire unuttered words hold fast
With reptile tongue, the lightning lashes towers built to last
Darkness creeps in like a thief and offers no relief
Why are you shaking like a leaf
Come on, come talk to me

Ah please talk to me
Won't you please talk to me
We can unlock this misery
Come on, come talk to me
I did not come to steal
This all is so unreal
Can't you show me how you feel now
Come on, come talk to me
Come talk to me
Come talk to me

The earthly power sucks shadowed milk from sleepy tears undone
From nippled skin as smooth as silk the bugles blown as one
You lie there with your eyes half closed like there's no-one there at all
There's a tension pulling on your face
Come on, come talk to me

Won't you please talk to me
If you'd just talk to me
Unblock this misery
If you'd only talk to me
Don't you ever change your mind
Now your future's so defined
And you act so deaf and blind
Come on, come talk to me
Come talk to me
Come talk to me

I can imagine the moment
Breaking out through the silence
All the things that we both might say
And the heart it will not be denied
'til we're both on the same damn side
All the barriers blown away

I said please talk to me
Won't you please come talk to me
Just like it used to be
Come on, come talk to me
I did not come to steal
This all is so unreal
Can you show me how you feel now
Come on, come talk to me
Come talk to me
Come talk to me

I said please talk to me
If you'd just talk to me
Unblock this misery
If you'd only talk to me
Don't you ever change your mind
Now your future's so defined
And you act so deaf and blind
Come on, come talk to me
Come talk to me
Come talk to me

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

A song from bob marley which sinead
Did sing during the well known
"pope-incident" in saterday night live
And a few days later during the
Bob dylan tribute concert.

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Until the philosophy,
Which holds one race superior
And another inferior,
Is finally and permanently
Discredited and abandoned,
Everywhere is war.

Until there is no longer first class
Or second class citizens of any nation.
Until the color of a man

It was the third of june, another sleepy, dusty delta day
I was out choppin' cotton and my brother was baling hay
At dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat
And mama hollered out the back door "y'all remember to wipe your feet"
Then she said "i got some news this morning from chocktow ridge
Today billy joe macallister jumped off the tallahachee bridge"

Papa said to mama as he passed around the black eyed peas
"well billy joe never had a lick of sense, pass the biscuits, please
There's five more acres in the lower forty i got to plow"
And mama said it was shame about billy joe, anyhow
Seems like nothing ever comes to no good on chocktow ridge
And now billy joe macallister's jumped off the tallahachee bridge

Mama said to me "child, what's happened to your appetite?
I've been cooking all morning and you haven't touched a single bite
That nice young preacher, brother taylor, dropped by today
Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on sunday, oh, by the way,
He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you on chocktow ridge
And she and billy joe was throwing something off the tallahachee bridge"

A year has come and gone since we heard the news about billy joe
Brother married becky thompson, they bought a store in tupelo
There was a virus going 'round, papa caught it and he died last spring
And now mama doesn't seem to wanna do much of anything
And me, i spend a lot of time picking flowers up on chocktow ridge
And drop them into the muddy water off the tallahachee bridge

Ave maria,
Gr

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

Sin

Snowdrops and daffodils,
Butterflies and bees,
Sailboats and fishermen,
Things of the sea,
Wishing wells and wedding bells,
Early morning dew,
All kinds of everything
Remind me of you.

Seagulls and aeroplanes,
Things of the sky,
Winds that go howling,
Breezes that sigh,
City sight, neon lights,
Grey skies or blue,
All kinds of everything
Remind me of you.

Summer time, winter time,
Spring and autumn too,
Monday, tuesday, everyday,
I think of you.

Dances, romances,
Things of the night,
Sunshine and holidays,
Postcards to write.

Parting trees, autumn leaves,
Snowflake or two,
All kinds of everything
Remind me of you.

Summer time, winter time,
Spring and autumn too,
Seasons will never change
The way that i love you.

Dances, romances,
Things of the night.

Sunshine and holidays,
Postcards to write,
Parting trees, autumn leaves,
A snowflake or two.

All kinds of everything
Remind me of you.

All kinds of everything
Remind me of you.

The city lights flick to display
Bang there goes another day
The believers in the basement
They are singing songs about a way
Reborn and regenerate
But none of this communicates to me

Up here on the second floor
I've forgotten what i'm waiting for
A friend, a brother, mother, woman
Maybe
But i have all these in the sulphate
Emotionless and considerate
To me

And it's a hard sun
A hard sun that
's been beating on my back
It's a hard sun
That shines it's light on me

It's a hard sun
A hard sun that
's been beating on my back
It's a hard sun
That shines it's light on me

The silver clock chimes off again
Reminds me of my childhood pain
And the burden that was lifted
When i made it to the city
Disillusioned and full of hate
But a member of the mother state and free

At empty walls i sit and stare
I sense a feeling in the air
In the throws of thought i wonder
Can i make it on my own
But, deep down in my heart i known
That i ain't never, ever going home

And it's a hard sun
A hard sun that
's been beating on my back
It's a hard sun
That shines it's light on me

It's a hard sun
A hard sun that
's been beating on my back
And it's a hard sun
That shines it's light on me

I used to think the world was flat
Rarely threw my hat into the crowd
I felt i had used up my quota of yearning

Used to look in on the children at night
In the glow of their donald duck light
And i frighten myself with the thought of my little ones burning
But oh, oh, oh, the tide is turning
Oh, oh, oh, the tide is turning

Satellite buzzing through the endless night
Exclusive to moonshots and world title fights
Jesus christ imagine what it must be earning

Who is the strongest, who is the best
Who holds the aces, the east or the west
This is the crap our children are learning
And oh, oh, the tide is turning
Oh, oh, the tide is turning
Oh, oh, oh, yeah, the tide is turning
Oh, the tide is turning

Now the satellite's confused
'cos on saturday night
The airwaves were full of compassion and light
And his silicon heart warmed
To the sight of a billion candles burning

But i'm not saying that the battle is won
But on saturday night all those kids in the sun
Wrested technology's sword from the hand of the war lords
Oh, oh, oh, the tide is turning
Oh, oh, the tide is turning sylvester

Oh, oh, the tide is turning. (repeat many times)

Song by the band max from their album silence running


Away from the snow
Runaway horses
In place of the dawn
Some new shape is breaking.
Jets to the western
Tracks to the eastern
Over the wasteland 24:7

Hold on
Hold on
At the first turn of the second block
Hold on

I would never throw
Love out the window
Well that's how it is yeah yeah
I tell you the story
Of loves we seen twice
I be looking out for you yeah yeah

Won't ya hold on
Hold on
At the first turn of the second block
Go there
Hold on
At the first turn of the second block
Won't you hold on

And one live as two
And two live as three
It's a black and in blue
Kind of a thing love
I've seen you right there
Rain in your hair
I seen you right there
I was calling calling
Over this place
Can't you see me falling

Hold on
Hold on
At the first turn of the second block
Won't you
Hold on

At the last turn at the very last turn
Won't you
Hold on

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Sinead's backing lyrics;
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Away, away, away from the snow,
Away from the snow
There's something drowning
24:7 you took your believe
Runner on the shadows is waiting for me

Somebody might not waiting to the last turn around
.....................comes around
Where you pushing.......away...place to go
In the meantime show me what you're given though

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

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

Homeless
Homeless

Homeless, homeless, moonlight sleeping on a midnight lake.
Homeless, homeless, moonlight sleeping on a midnight lake.
Homeless, homeless, moonlight sleeping on a midnight lake.
Homeless, homeless, moonlight sleeping on a midnight

Somebody say; uhu uhu uhu uhu
Somebody sing; hello hello hello
Somebody say; uhu uhu uhu uhu
Somebody cry; why why why
Somebody say; uhu uhu uhu uhu
Somebody sing; hello hello hello
Somebody say; uhu uhu uhu uhu
Somebody cry; why why why

Well strong wind, strong wind
Many death tonight it could be you

Homeless
Homeless
Homeless
Homeless
I'm homeless

Homeless, homeless, moonlight sleeping on a midnight lake.
Homeless, homeless, moonlight sleeping on a midnight lake.
Homeless, homeless, moonlight sleeping on a midnight lake.

Strong wind, strong wind
Many death tonight it could be you
Strong wind, strong wind
Many death tonight it could be you
Strong wind, strong wind
Many death tonight it could be you

Homeless, homeless, moonlight sleeping on a midnight lake.

(howard)


Fly me to the moon
And let me play
Among the stars
Let me see what
Spring is like
On jupiter and mars
In other words,
Hold my hands
In other words,
Darling kiss me

Fill my heart with song
And let me sing for ever more
You are all i long for
All i worship and adore
In other words please be true
In other words

Fill my heart with song
And let me sing for ever more
You are all i long for
All i worship and adore
In other words please be true
In other words, i love you
I love you
I love you
I love you
I love you
I love you
I love you
Love you

You smile
And there's blood on your lips
Your hands show again
What your mouth has kissed
Now i know something
I did not know before
The thing that you've destroyed
Is a thing you liked me for

All those nights with my arse in your face
And your words in my dreams
Now i know what the value of ignorance means

The pain
In the sordidness
All the more choices
I thought you'd be the best

At least
I know something
About what's good and what hurts
And i'm glad that i loath it
You would have fucked me up worse

All those nights with my arse in your face
And your words in my dreams
Now i know what the value of ignorance means

All those nights with my arse in your face
And your words in my dreams
Now i know what the value of ignorance means

Don't you ever lie to me again
Because if you do
I will not be you friend

September '77
Port elizabeth weather fine
It was business as usual
In police room 619
Oh biko, biko, biko, because
Oh biko, biko, biko, biko
Oh biko, biko, biko, because
Oh biko, biko, biko, biko
Yihla moja, yihla moja
The man is dead, the man is dead

When i try to sleep at night
I can only dream in red
The outside world is black and white
With only one colour dead
Oh biko, biko, biko, because
Oh biko, biko, biko, biko
Oh biko, biko, biko, because
Oh biko, biko, biko, biko
Yihla moja, yihla moja
The man is dead, the man is dead

You can blow out a candle
But you can't blow out a fire
Once the flame begins to catch
The wind will blow it higher
Oh biko, biko, biko, because
Oh biko, biko, biko, biko
Oh biko, biko, biko, because
Oh biko, biko, biko, biko
Yihla moja, yihla moja
The man is dead, the man is dead
Yihla moja, yihla moja
The man is dead, the man is dead
Yihla moja, yihla moja
The man is dead, the man is dead

Remember tumble weeds on an empty road
That coffee pot on a burnin' stove
The christmas tree in a place a called home
That's what i miss the most

This drifting leaves fall to the ground
I scoop them up and i throw them down
I close my eyes and i start to count
The lonely people leaving town

And i feel like a monkey in winter
And you are a lizard in the sun
Yes i feel like a monkey in winter

Say hello to something new
Is what a friend told me to do
'cos beggars can't be choosers and i can't afford to loose
We never touched we never kissed
We never loved though we thought we did
So i walked away and i called it quits
What the eyes don't see, you know the heart won't miss

But i feel like a monkey in winter
And you are a lizard in the sun
Yes i feel like a monkey in winter
And winter's just began

Remember summer long ago
The sun beats down, the air was clean
It came and went away
Things come and go
But do you, do you remember me?

Remember tumble weeds on an empty road
Coffee pot on a burnin' stove
The christmas tree in a place a called home
That's what i miss the most

We never touched we never kissed
We never loved though we thought we did
So i walked away and i called it quits
What the eyes don't see, you know the heart don't miss

But i feel like a monkey in winter
And you are a lizard in the sun
Yes i feel like a monkey in winter
And it looks like winter's gone

(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.

(wright, moore)

I can take or leave it, won't be the woebegone,
Don't need a model universe to hang your pictures on.
You hide somewhere, you die somewhere
And then this senseless thought,
By hating more you're feeling more
And that's how you get caught.

They're never gonna make it easy
Of this you can be sure.
I greet you from your wilderness,
I'll stay inside your door.
There is no cage or prison,
They have no fence too tall,
You die more times then anyone,
And there's still no place to fall.

They're never gonna keep it simple
This comes down from above.
I have no helm, no secret realm,
I dream to be at the heart of love, a part of love.

I bet you can conceal it,
But that's just a dead-end track,
I'll cover you like the driven snow
And then i'll bring you back.
You'll see! you feel like, you feel like a banner,
Unfurled and gently blown,
And there before your opening eyes
The self you've never known.

They're never gonna make it easy
Of this you can be sure.
You feel untied, beatified
And loved for evermore.

[performed sometimes live at concerts]

There once was a farmer who took a young miss
To the side of his barn where he gave her a lecture
On horses and chickens and eggs
And told her that she had such beautiful manners
That suited the girl of his charms
A girl that he wanted to take him his washing and ironing
And if she did they would be married
And have...

...sweet violets
Sweeter than the roses
Covered all over from head to toe
Sweet violets

That

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Written by morrissey and marr, last couplet
Written by al jolson. sung by sinead during
Some concerts.
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Please don't cry
For the ghost and the storm outside
Will not invade this sacred shrine
Nor infiltrate your mind
My life down i shall lie
If the bogey-man should try
To play tricks on your sacred mind
To tease, torment and tantalise
Wavering shadows loom
A piano plays in an empty room
There'll be blood on the cleaver tonight
When darkness lifts and the room is bright
I'll still be by your side
There never need to be longing in your eyes

As long as the hand that rocks the cradle is mine
As long as the hand that rocks the cradle is mine

Ceiling shadows shimmy by
And when the wardrobe towers like a beast of prey
There's a sadness in your beautiful eyes
Your untouched, unsoiled, wonderous eyes
My life down i shall lie
Should restless spirits try
To play tricks on you sacred mind
I once had a child and he saved my life
But i never even asked his name
I just looked into his wonderous eyes
And said "never never never again"
And all too soon i did return
Just like a moth to a flame
So rattle my bones all over the stones
Because i'm only a beggar-man whom nobody owns
See how words as old as sin
Fit me like a glove
I'm here and here i'll stay
Together we lie and together we pray
There never need be longing in your eyes

As long as the hand that rocks the cradle is mine
As long as the hand that rocks the cradle is mine

Climb upon my knee, sonny boy
Although you're only three, sonny boy
Your mom she just never knew
Oh your mom, your mom...

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
'til 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 a swan in the evening
Moves over the lake.

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

Lonely man
Tired man
Play the blues
Sing while you have nothing to lose
Silver moon
Weeping moon
Cry for me
Show me your soul sympathy

You have done all you can
Live no more
Sigh as you walk through the door

Take my hand
Take my hand
Lie on sand
Rest on sand

Close your eyes
Slowly close
Go to sleep
Sleep while you've dreams to keep

You have meant all you can
Live no more
Sigh as you walk through the door

Take my hand
Take my hand
Lie on sand
Rest on sand

Windy shore
Crying
But don't cry no more

Oh the days are long
'til the baby comes
God will take all fear
If you say this clear

I am enough for myself
I don't need anything else
I am enough for myself

I am in your heart
I only can have that part
I am in your dreams
I only can touch these things
I am who gives the breath
I am your nakedness
I am nothing at all
And i am singing your soul

I am that am i
I am that am i
I am that i am
I am enough for myself

(trad. gospel)

Make me a channel of your peace
Where there is hatred let me bring love
Where there is injury, your pardon lord
And where there is doubt through faith in you

Make ma a channel of your peace
Where there is dispair in life let me bring hope
Where there is darkness or only light
And where there

A song of world party of
Which sinead did the
Background vocals
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I'd give you all my money
Abandon that beautiful girl
Take my books
My choicest looks
And burn them all today
I've got rare '61 beatles
I've got a film of my dreams
But i'd lose them all
Burn em all
Go along without all of it
Give up the chances i see
If you'd take me up
Raise me up
Let me know the heart of it
Give me your sweet soul dream
Give me your sweet soul dream

I don't need a body
A body's nobody to me
It's just a cell
And i'm leaving well
When i get you to give me the key
You can take all my postcards and letters
My loves and my good memories
Well i'd lose them all
Burn them all
Go along without all of it
Give up the changes i see
If you'd raise me up
Take me up
Let me know the heart of it
Give me your sweet soul dream
Give me your sweet soul dream

I'm trying to learn understanding
Against the hell i can win
If you'd hold me up
Grow me up
Let me be a part of it
Give me the chance that i see
I could take me up
Raise me up
Get to know the heart of it
Give me your sweet soul dream
Give me your sweet soul dream
Give me your sweet soul dream

Written by k.t. oslin and jerry gillespie
Performed live by dusty springfield,
Backing vocals by sinead o'connor


Doo-da, doo-da, doo-da day
Doo-da, doo-da, doo-da, doo-da day

Maybe he was wrong,
Maybe i wasn't right
Whatever the reason
I'm on my own tonight

He's gone a his way
And i've gone mine
But i'll bet you
Get that story all the time

Sometimes your friends ain't always available
To pick you up
When you're feelin' down, down, down

But daddy would die if he knew his baby
Is seekin' refuge in a little ol' bar

(o'connor, clayton, simenon, reynolds)

[the extended version of "famine", released in 1995, from the cd-single "famine"]

There is more in us than we know about. the famine, which happened 150 years ago.
It

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.

(sebastian temple)
Taken from the cd: diana, princess of wales tribute (1997)

Make me a channel of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me bring your love
Where there is injury, your pardon lord
And where there's doubt, true faith in you.

Make me a channel of your peace.
Where there's despair in life let me bring hope
Where there is darkness, only light
And where there's sadness, ever joy.

Oh master, grant that i may never seek
So much to be consoled as to console
To be understood as to understand
To be loved, as to love with all my soul.

Make me a channel of your peace.
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
In giving to all men that we receive
And in dying that we are born to eternal life

(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.

A song sinead did together with
Jah wobble on his album
"rising above bedlam"
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I never ever thought i'd say
These words that i say to you
A rapsody in blue
You'll want sense your caress
Leaves me heavenly
Such a renaty

Clean your mind
Clean your day
Clean your soul
A good nation to see
The hungry spirit

Lying back in extasy
Dreams are made of this
A pure bliss
You gave me extasy ultimate reality
Sweet devinity
Fent my name a decent sensuality extasy

Fear the way of your progress
But everytime that there is only one anti-dose
And love coquerst fear in the arena of life

I never ever thought i'd say
These words that i say to you
A rapsody in blue

Love come close fear

Found my mendacity
Sensuality
Extasy
Masclinaty fears caverlaty
Morality
.......

I never ever thought i'd say
These words that i say to you
A rapsody in blue

Behold
Reality

(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,

Locked in misfit hi-tech
It's the high ground rita rita
Making out for all the thrill of it
Six of them all got a reason

And your mouth outlined with fire
Power breaks i've seen you there for sure

I went to sleep last night
And my baby was long gone
Then i marked the blank time
That stares back
And i opened opened wide the distance

And your mouth outlined with fire
Power breaks i've seen you there for sure

Soft words that beguile you
And your eyes are far already
Spirit came out here
To guide you
Very lightly from your sleeping

And your mouth outlined with fire
Power breaks i've seen you there for sure

There for sure
There for sure
There for sure
There for sure

A cristy moore song of which sinead did the
Background vocals, on moore's album "voyage"
Original written by jimmy maccarthy
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Among the walls and ruins
Of the horrid civic stone
I walked without a lover
For my older bones

The sun was strong in going down
It was a dreamlike day
It was there we met the trinity
And there i heard them saying

And she said bye bye mama
Goodbye brother john
Farethee well ye shandon bells
Ring on, ring on

She leaned and leaned much closer
And she hugs them all goodbye
Her mother cried "don't go my love"
We all must bye and bye
A drunken tongue said "leave her off"
She'll drive us all crazy
She turned around and saw my face
And both of us was she

And she said bye bye mama
Goodbye brother john
Farethee well ye shandon bells
Ring on, ring on

Up and to the limestone wall
And down the level steps
She threw herself into the stream
Witha spash and no regrets
Side stroke swimming midstream
Throwing kisses to the crowd
And everything was silent
And the sky had not one cloud

And she said bye bye mama
Goodbye brother john
Farethee well ye shandon bells
Ring on, ring on

We were swimming out in the sunset,
We were swimming out to sea,
Swimming down by the opera house
The mad lady and me.

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
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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...

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.

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.

(george gershwin)

There's a saying old
Says that love is blind
Still we're often told:
"seek and you shall find"
So i'm going to see the certain lad
I have in mind
Looking everywhere
Haven't found him yet
He's the big affair
I can not forget
Only man i ever think of worth regret
I like to add his initials
To my monogram
Tell me, where is the shepherd for this lost lamb?

There's a somebody i'm longing to see
I hope that he
Turns out to be
Someone who watch over me

I'm a little lamb who's lost in the woods
I know i could always be good
To one who watch over me

Although he may not be the man some girls think of
As handsome
To my heart
He carries the key

Won't you tell him please to put on some speed
Follow my lead
Oh how i need
Someone to watch over me
Someone to watch over me

(music by u2, lyrics by bono, performed by u2 and sinead)

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

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

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

Bono: (while sinead sings: feel so good, 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

It's making me do things,
I don't want to do.
It's poisoning me, weakening me,
You can't see.
It's lessening, like you.
I'm still listening.
Still listening.

Rescue me,
Won't you, won't you?
It's getting so late, uhhhh
I can't see
I'm begging you;
I'm still listening

I believed you.
Oh, i wanted to.
And it was wonderful,
So beautiful,
All gave in.
Release me.

Rescue me, won't you? ohhhuuu
It's getting so late, uhhh
I can't see.
I'm telling you;
I'm still listening.

I believed you.
Oh, i wanted to.
But it's poisoning me, weakening me.
You can't see.
It's lessening.

Rescue me, won't you?
It's getting so late,
I can't see.
I'm telling you;
I'm still listening.

I'm still, still, still, still, still
Still, still, still, still, still
Listening, listening, listening
Still, still, still, still, still, still

You're not listening!

(words and music by bob dylan)

They ask me how i feel
And if my love is real
And how i know i'll make it through.
They look at me and frown,
And like to drive me from this town,
They don't want me around
'cause i believe in you.

They show me to the door,
They say "don't come back no more"
'cause i don't be like they'd like me to,
And i, i walk out on my own
A thousand miles from home
But i don't feel alone
'cause i believe in you.

I believe in you even through the tears and the laughter,
I believe in you even though we be apart.
I believe in you even on the morning after.
Oh, when the dawn is nearing
Oh, when the night is disappearing
Oh, this feeling is still here in my heart.

Don't let me drift too far,
Keep me where you are
Where i will always be renewed.
And that which you've given me today
Is worth more than i could pay
And no matter what they say
I believe in you.

I believe in you when a winter turn to the summer,
I believe in you when white turns to black,
I believe in you even though i be outnumbered.
Oh, though the earth may shake me
Oh, though my friends forsake me
Oh, even that couldn't make me go back.

Don't let me change my heart,
Keep me set apart
From all the plans they do pursue.
And i, i don't mind the pain
Don't mind the driving rain
I know i will sustain
'cause i believe in you.

A song sinead did together
With cristy moore on cristy's
Album "voyage"
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Everybody knew, nobody said
A week ago last tuesday
She was just fifteen years
When she reached her full therm
She went to a grotto
In just a field
In the middle of the island
To deliver herself
Her baby died
She died
A week ago last tuesday
It was a sad slow stupid death for them both
Everybody knew, nobody said
At a grotto
In a field
In the middle of the island

It was a sad slow stupid death for them both
Everybody knew, nobody said

.......devil in his eyes

He's such a delicate thing
But when he starts in the squeeze
You'd be surprised

He doesn't look very strong
But when you sit on his knee.......

(i'm sorry can we go back again
I was thinking)

He doesn't........

And when he starts to grab
I said a taxi cab!
You would be surprised
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Transcribed by marcel bobbink
Send corrections to: bobbink@chello.nl
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You'd be surprised (full lyrics)
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He's not so good in a crowd
But when you get him alone
You'd be surprised

He isn't much at a dance
But then when he takes you home
You'd be surprised

(refrain)
He doesn't look like much of a lover
Don't judge a book by its cover
He's got the face of an angel
But there's a devil in his eyes

He's such a delicate thing
Bu when he starts in the squeeze
You'd be surprised

He doesn't look very strong
But when you sit on his knee
You'd be surprised

At a party or at a bar
I've got to admit he's nothing at all

But in a morris chair
You'd be surprised

Refrain

He's not so good at the start
But at the end of the week
You would be surprised

On a streetcar or in a train
You'd think he was born without any brain
But in a taxi cab
And when he starts to grab
I said a taxi cab!
You would be surprised

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Transcribed by missjamiel
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(sinead o'connor/marco pirroni)

Sinead;
-------
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

And if you said jump in the river i would
Because it would probably be a good idea
You're not supposed to be here at all now
It's all been a gorgeous mistake
Sick one or clean one
The best one
That god ever made

When i kissed you
You didn't mind
I thought i tasted of too many cigarettes
But you tasted like wine
And i'm not going to change my mind
Just because of what they said
The worm has laid eggs in their hearts
But not in my head

And if you said jump in the river i would
Because it would probably be a good idea
You're not supposed to be here at all now
It's all been a gorgeous mistake
Sick one or clean one
The best one
That god ever made

There's been days like this before you know
And i liked it all
Like the times we did it so hard
There was blood on the wall

And if you said jump in the river i would
Because it would probably be a good idea

And if you said jump in the river i would
Because it would probably be a good idea

And if you said jump...
And if you said jump...
Jump
Jump

Karen finley;
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Brother, do you have a prick?
Yes i do, just like cows do
Brother, do you have a prick?
Yes i do, just like cows do

After my mother washed me
Powdered me
I insisted that she'd masturbate me
You wonder why i've got panic attacks
You dream you ate me through my silken panties

But baby you've got it wrong
I don't smile when i cum

Jump start me
Jump start me
Jump, jump, jump, jump

Ain't got a leg, but i got a stump
Ain't got a dick baby, but i got a pump
Ain't got a titty, but i got a lump

Never knew how to walk
So i gotta jump
Jump start me
Jump start me
Jump in my heart
Jump from the start

Well, he loves to wear silk knotted scarves around his neck, baby
Finger them, finger the scarves
He twist the scarf around my neck, baby
I wish he was twisting it around my clit
I mean my dick
I mean my cock
Baby, twist it
Twist it good
Twist that silky scarf

Well you sell those ties at madison avenue
Work me
Work me good
And you perform that magic trick good
By taking that silk tie
Oiled
Knotted
Pull it out of my asshole
Let me cum
Let me cum