Released: March 1, 1990
Songwriter: Frank O’Connor Philip King
Producer: Sinéad O’Connor
I am stretched on your grave
And will lie there forever
If your hands were in mine
I'd be sure we'd not sever
My apple tree my brightness
It's time we were together
For I smell of the earth
And am worn by the weather
When my family thinks
That I'm safe in my bed
From night until morning
I am stretched at your head
Calling out to the air
With tears hot and wild
My grief for the girl
That I loved as a child
Do you remember
The night we were lost
In the shade of the blackthorn
And the chill of the frost
Thanks be to Jesus
We did what was right
And your maiden head still
Is your pillar of light
The priests and the friars
Approach me in dread
Because I still love you
My love and you're dead
I still would be your shelter
Through rain and through storm
And with you in your cold grave
I cannot sleep warm
So I'm stretched on your grave
And will lie there forever
If you hands were in mine
I'd be sure we'd not sever
My apple tree my brightness
It's time we were together
For I smell of the earth
And am worn by the weather
And will lie there forever
If your hands were in mine
I'd be sure we'd not sever
My apple tree my brightness
It's time we were together
For I smell of the earth
And am worn by the weather
When my family thinks
That I'm safe in my bed
From night until morning
I am stretched at your head
Calling out to the air
With tears hot and wild
My grief for the girl
That I loved as a child
Do you remember
The night we were lost
In the shade of the blackthorn
And the chill of the frost
Thanks be to Jesus
We did what was right
And your maiden head still
Is your pillar of light
The priests and the friars
Approach me in dread
Because I still love you
My love and you're dead
I still would be your shelter
Through rain and through storm
And with you in your cold grave
I cannot sleep warm
So I'm stretched on your grave
And will lie there forever
If you hands were in mine
I'd be sure we'd not sever
My apple tree my brightness
It's time we were together
For I smell of the earth
And am worn by the weather
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- Nothing Compares 2 U
- Silent Night
- Mind Games
- You Do Something to Me
- Night Nurse
- My Special Child
- Damn Your Eyes
- I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got
- Last Day of Our Acquaintance
- You Cause As Much Sorrow
- Jump in the River
- The Emperor’s New Clothes
- Black Boys on Mopeds
- I Am Stretched on Your Grave
- Three Babies
- Feels So Different
- What Do You Want
- The Lion in the Cage (1990)
- I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got (1990)
- So Far... The Best of Sinéad O’Connor (1997)
- Nothing Compares 2 U
- Black Boys on Mopeds
- Troy
- Mandinka
- Last Day of Our Acquaintance
- The Emperor’s New Clothes
- I Am Stretched on Your Grave
- Mother
- My Darling Child
- It’s All Good
- The Healing Room
- Don’t Cry for Me Argentina
- In This Heart
- I Want Your (Hands on Me)
- Jealous
- Drink Before the War
- The State I’m In
- This Is to Mother You
- O Filii et Filiae
- He Moved Through the Fair
- Success Has Made a Failure of Our Home
- John I Love You
- I’ll Tell Me Ma
- Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered