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Throw down your armsSinéad O’Connor

Released: October 4, 2005

Songwriter: Burning Spear

Producer: Sly & Robbie

Throw down your arms and come
Throw down your arms and come
Throw down your arms and come

Two of us have a little fuss
Ev'rything you draw your last
Ev'rything you run for your gun
Ev'rything you fling rock stone
Hear this!

Throw down your arms and come
Throw down your arms and come
Throw down your arms and come
Drop them !

A no ignorance he do it
A no brute force do it
Your weapons can't do it
So hear this !

Throw down your arms and come
Throw down your arms and come
Throw down your arms and come
Drop them
Put them away to stay

Throw down your arms and come
Throw down your arms and come
I long to see you
I long to reason with you
I long to hold your hands in my hands
Can't you see
Can't you see?

Throw down your arms and come
Throw down your arms and come
Throw down your arms and come...

Sinéad O’Connor

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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