Sinéad O’Connor

Released: August 3, 2018

Songwriter: Sinéad O’Connor David Holmes

Producer: David Holmes (Producer)

I crawled through the forest of Tennessee
All on my hands and knees
Not seeing the wood for the trees
Till I got to Los Angeles
First thing that I learned at the juncture
Evil is not my true nature
So, even though you drove me to terror
I don't have to be that her
I don't have to be that she
This is where I get to be me
This is where you don't get to make me
This is where you don't get to create me

I slept outside in the dog shed
Because you wouldn't let me keep my ipad
I've had less rights as a woman, then the dog is my eternal form
And it remains the same, yes it remains the same
Let's start with the name
You can shove it where you keep all your pain

I drove through the graveyards of Texas
Of which there are still black and white ones
What a thing to happen in the nation
Even in death, segregation
One day we'll sit with our maker
Discuss over biscuits and soda
Which one of you and me was braver
Which one of us was a true soldier?

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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