Sinéad O’Connor

Released: September 9, 2003

Songwriter: Neil Davidge Robert “3D” del Naja Sinéad O’Connor

Producer: Neil Davidge Robert “3D” del Naja

Your gentle love
Is everything I dreamed of
Since I first heard of love
So long ago, so long ago
When there was only fear
And it still lives inside me here
Like a good friend I don't want near

Who wears the scars of the war between me and the stars?
The mother and the father of all wars
Look in my heart
My raging heart
The one that's still smashed all apart
My raging heart
Is just like yours

But if the truth be told
It's time for all those things to get old
And time to let go

All the pain and fear
And anything that don't keep happiness near
For love is ours
God knows we earned it with our hearts

Will you love my heart
The one that's still smashed all apart
My raging heart
Will you love my heart
Like I love your heart
Your tender, gentle heart
Your heart that's still so soft

Let love be ours, ours, ours
Let love be ours
My aching heart
My aching heart

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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