Sinéad O’Connor

Released: February 20, 2012

Songwriter: Sinéad O’Connor

Producer: John Reynolds

I don't know where I go
When I go
I only know it's very far from home

And I don't know where you are
Either
But I know you're very far from home

I long for you; I see you in my dreams
So clearly
But when I wake up, I'm alone and I don't know where you've gone
But I know it's very far from home

No one knows where I go
When I go
Oh, they don't know I'm so far from home

And it's my fault
That you got lost
Oh, let me create something
Other than trouble

Oh, let me find you
Let me mind you
Even if it has to be
Very far from home

I long for you; I see you in my dreams
So clearly
But when I wake up, I'm alone and I don't know where you've gone
But I know it's very far from home
(Oooh)
It's very far from home
(Oooh)
(Oooh)
(Oooh)

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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