Released: September 22, 1992
Songwriter: Tim Rice Andrew Lloyd Webber
Producer: Phil Ramone
[Verse 1]
It won't be easy
You'll think it strange
When I try to explain how I feel
That I still need your love
After all that I've done
You won't believe me
All you will see is a girl
You once knew
Although she's dressed up
To the nines
At sixes and sevens with you
[Verse 2]
I had to let it happen
I had to change
Couldn't stay all my life
Down at heel
Looking out of the window
Staying out of the sun
So I chose freedom
Running around trying
Everything new
But nothing impressed me at all
I never expected it to
[Chorus]
Don't cry for me Argentina
The truth is I never left you
All through my wild days
My mad existence
I kept my promise
Don't keep your distance
[Verse 3]
And as for fortune
And as for fame
I never invited them in
Though it seemed to the world
They were all I desired
They are illusions
They are not the solutions
They promised to be
The answer was here all the time
I love you and hope you love me
[Instrumental Chorus]
[Bridge]
Have I said too much?
There's nothing more
I can think of to say to you
But all you have to do is
Look at me
To know that every word is true
[Instrumental Chorus]
[Outro]
I kept my promise
Don't keep your distance
It won't be easy
You'll think it strange
When I try to explain how I feel
That I still need your love
After all that I've done
You won't believe me
All you will see is a girl
You once knew
Although she's dressed up
To the nines
At sixes and sevens with you
[Verse 2]
I had to let it happen
I had to change
Couldn't stay all my life
Down at heel
Looking out of the window
Staying out of the sun
So I chose freedom
Running around trying
Everything new
But nothing impressed me at all
I never expected it to
[Chorus]
Don't cry for me Argentina
The truth is I never left you
All through my wild days
My mad existence
I kept my promise
Don't keep your distance
[Verse 3]
And as for fortune
And as for fame
I never invited them in
Though it seemed to the world
They were all I desired
They are illusions
They are not the solutions
They promised to be
The answer was here all the time
I love you and hope you love me
[Instrumental Chorus]
[Bridge]
Have I said too much?
There's nothing more
I can think of to say to you
But all you have to do is
Look at me
To know that every word is true
[Instrumental Chorus]
[Outro]
I kept my promise
Don't keep your distance
more tracks from the album
Am I Not Your Girl?
- Secret Love
- Don’t Cry for Me Argentina (Instrumental)
- Gloomy Sunday
- Black Coffee
- Almost in Your Arms
- How Insensitive
- I Want to Be Loved by You
- Love Letters
- Scarlet Ribbons
- Fly Me to the Moon
- My Heart Belongs to Daddy
- Why Don’t You Do Right
- Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
- Success Has Made a Failure of Our Home
- Don’t Cry for Me Argentina
- Personal message about pain (Jesus and the Money Changers)
From the albums
- Am I Not Your Girl? (1992)
- So Far... The Best of Sinéad O’Connor (1997)
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- Black Boys on Mopeds
- Troy
- Mandinka
- Last Day of Our Acquaintance
- The Emperor’s New Clothes
- I Am Stretched on Your Grave
- Mother
- Open Letter to Miley Cyrus
- My Darling Child
- It’s All Good
- The Healing Room
- Don’t Cry for Me Argentina
- In This Heart
- I Want Your (Hands on Me)
- Jealous
- Drink Before the War
- The State I’m In
- This Is to Mother You
- O Filii et Filiae
- He Moved Through the Fair
- Success Has Made a Failure of Our Home
- John I Love You
- I’ll Tell Me Ma