Sinéad O’Connor

Released: September 22, 1992

Songwriter: Antônio Carlos Jobim Norman Vinícius de Moraes

Producer: Sinéad O’Connor Phil Ramone

How insensitive
I must have seemed
When he told me
That he loved me
How unmoved and cold
I must have seemed
When he said it
So sincerely

Why, he must have asked
Did I just turn and
Stare in icy silence?
What was I to do?
What can you do?
When a love affair is over?

Now he's gone away
And I'm alone with
The memory of
His last look
Vague and drawn
And sad, I see it still
All the heartbreak
Of his last look

Why, he must have asked
Would I just turn
And stare in icy silence?
What was I to say?
What can you say?
When a love affair is over?

Why, he must have asked
Did I just turn
And stare in icy silence?
What was I to say?
What can you say?
When a love affair is over?
Over
Over

Sinéad O'Connor (who goes by Shuhada' Sadaqat in her private life) is an Irish singer-songwriter who rose to fame in the late 80s with her album The Lion and the Cobra and achieved worldwide success with her cover of Prince’s “Nothing Compares to You” in 1990.

O'Connor was discovered in 1985 when Nigel Grainge of Ensign Records saw her band Ton Ton Macoute perform. Although he was not fond of the band’s music, he was impressed by O'Connor’s ‘amazing voice’. Grainge had O'Connor record four songs with Karl Wallinger (World Party) and signed her to his label. O'Connor’s first single was the song “Heroine” which she co-wrote with U2’s guitarist The Edge for the film Captive.

Her debut album The Lion and the Cobra was a sensation when it was released in 1987, reaching gold record status and earning a Best Female Rock Vocal Performance Grammy nomination. O'Connor’s debut single “Troy” charted in The Netherlands and Belgium, and “Mandinka”, released in late 1987, cracked the top 20 in the UK and top 30 in three other European countries, helping her album chart well in Europe. Spin Magazine described the album as a “remarkable, still-spine-tingling first record”.

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