Sinéad O’Connor

Released: September 9, 2003

Songwriter: David A. Stewart Brian Eno Sinéad O’Connor

Producer: David A. Stewart Brian Eno Sinéad O’Connor

No matter how hard I try
I can make you recognize me
You can wait and see my face
Though I shut down the place

No matter how hard I cry
You aren't able to try
And your like a broken door
I could cry forever more

No matter how hard I try
I can't make like I don't care that our marriage died
No matter how hard I try

My friends say to me
Darling don't be so unhappy
You just need to know your lovely
But it's not that easy
Well you can't love me
How can I believe I'm lovely
Or not how to begin
I can just take it on the Chan

You don't forgive anything
You forget everything
What about the joy I bring?
No matter how hard I try
You can make like I didn't give birth to your child

All I want to see is you and me raise our baby
It is much peace and harmony
As we've never seen
My man loves me so
And you can't make me make him go
And you don't want me anyway
So it's too late to say
Your jealousy
It can be nothing to me
And one thing I learned
I deserve to be loved not burned

No matter how hard I try
You can make like I'm not a good mother to our child
Our child

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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