Sinéad O’Connor

Songwriter: Ira Gershwin George Gershwin

Producer: Sinéad O’Connor Phil Ramone

There's a saying old
Says that love is blind
Still we're often told:
"Seek and you shall find"
So I'm going to see the certain light
I have in mind
Looking everywhere
Haven't found him yet
He's the big affair
I can not forget
Only man I ever think of worth regret
I like to add his initials
To my monogram
Tell me, where is the shepherd for this lost lamb?

There's a somebody I'm longing to see
I hope that he
Turns out to be
Someone who watch over me

I'm a little lamb who's lost in the woods
I know I could always be good
To one who watch over me

Although he may not be the man some girls think of
As handsome
But to my heart
He carries the key

Won't you tell him please to put on some speed
Follow my lead
Oh how I need
Someone to watch over me
Someone to watch over me

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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