Sinéad O’Connor

Songwriter: Andy Rourke Sinéad O’Connor

Producer: Sinéad O’Connor

You smile
And there's blood on your lips
Your hands show again
What your mouth has kissed
Now I know something
I did not know before
The thing that you've destroyed
Is a thing you liked me for

All those nights with my arse in your face
And your words in my dreams
Now I know what the value of ignorance means

The pain
In the sordidness
All the more choices
I thought you'd be the best

At least
I know something
About what's good and what hurts
And I'm glad that I loath it
You would have fucked me up worse

All those nights with my arse in your face
And your words in my dreams
Now I know what the value of ignorance means

All those nights with my arse in your face
And your words in my dreams
Now I know what the value of ignorance means

Don't you ever lie to me again
Because if you do
I will not be your friend

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”.

more tracks from the album

The Lion in the Cage

From the albums

Three Babies - EP (1990)
The Lion in the Cage (1990)

Sinéad O’Connor popular songs

The Value of IgnoranceSinéad O’Connor

Sinéad O’Connor

The Lion in the Cage