Sinéad O’Connor

Released: August 11, 2014

Songwriter: Graham Kearns Sinéad O’Connor John Reynolds

Producer: John Reynolds

She is a harbour
And has not harbour
She is only 'she' in inverted commas

She's not well aware
In certain areas
Lost girl in there
Building stupid castles in the stupid air

She lost a boy she loved
Because he was Maya
Always Maya

Harbour, harbour
No man is her father

She fought for something holy
Found only the dreams of Don Quixote
Fumbling to get back what's stolen
Thinking pain could be plastered over

Harbour, harbour
No man is her father

She lost all else she loved
Same time she lost that boy she loved
And they said, call it Maya
Go ahead, call it Maya

But it's not all Maya, well
A broken fourteen year old girl
Hasn't been allowed to tell
What actually happened in hell
What happened in hell

Harbour
No man is her father
Harbour, harbour
No man is her father

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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