Sinéad O’Connor

Released: June 13, 2000

Songwriter: Sinéad O’Connor

Producer: Skip McDonald Adrian Sherwood

The memories u bring
Make my eyes both sting
I can't help that pain that's tearing
At my throat and my chest
Where everything is kept
When I start remembering
How the clothes that u wore
Made my heart so sore
I just couldn't think anymore
Of u once u were gone
And it's been so long
I've been carrying on
And if u ever come home in the night
Darling I'd treat u right
Oh darling I'd treat u right
U got into your car and drove as far
As u could and even further
And no matter how I sang
I just never can
Stop needing your hand
Though got into my own car and drove as far
As I could so that I might forget u
I never could, does that I'm no good?
If it doesn't it should
But if u ever came home in the night
Darling I'd treat u right
Oh darling I'd treat u right
If u ever came home in the night
Darling I'd treat u right
Darling I'd treat u right
And I'd treat u right

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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