Sinéad O'Connor (64,03 %)
Universal Mother (54,91 %)
In collection
Released: 1994-09-13
Type: Studio
Type: Studio
Ranking:
Artist:
4
Year (1994):
32
Decade (1990's):
339
Overall:
2051
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1.
The Charge of the Goddess
 00:38
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2.
Fire on Babylon
 05:12
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3.
John I Love You
 05:32
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4.
My Darling Child
 03:09
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5.
Am I Human?
 00:24
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6.
Red Football
02:48
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7.
All Apologies
 02:38
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8.
A Perfect Indian
04:23
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9.
Scorn Not His Simplicity
 04:27
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10.
All Babies
04:30
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11.
In This Heart
03:11
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12.
Tiny Grief Song
01:56
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13.
Famine
04:57
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14.
Thank You for Hearing Me
06:26
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Album length:
50:11
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Lyrics |
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1.
The Charge of the Goddess
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I do think that women could make politics irrelevant. By as a kind of spontaneous cooperative action, the like of which we have never seen. Which is so far from people's ideas of state structure and vital social structure that seems to them like total anarchy. And what it really is is very subtle forms of interrellation which do not follow sort of hierachical pattern which is fundamentally patriarchal. The opposite to patriarchy is not matriarchy but fraternity. And I think it's women who are going to have to break this spiral of power and find the trick of cooperation. |
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2.
Fire on Babylon
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She took my father from my life oh Took my sister and brothers oh I watched her torturing my child Feeble I was then but now I'm grown Fire on Babylon Oh yes a change has come Fire on Babylon Fire Fire Fire She's taken everything I liked She's taken every lover oh And all along she gave me lies Just to make me think I loved her Fire on Babylon Oh yes a change has come Look what she did to her son Fire Fire Fire on Life's backwards Life's backwards People turn around The house is burned The house is burned The children are gone Fire Fire Fire on Babylon Oh yes a change has come Fire on Babylon Fire Fire, oh Fire, oh Fire on Babylon Oh yes a change has come Look what she did to her son Look what she did to her son Fire, haha Fire, haha Fire Fire Fire, aha Fire on Babylon Fire on Babylon |
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3.
John I Love You
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John I love you I'm ever so fond of you Will you wait for me 'Til I am heavenly Oh there's much work to do But I love you Oh you're tender Your name's a whisper I let tears fall like rain Apple-sized they were All over her And through all of those times When you could have died This is what you find There's life outside your mother's garden There's life beyond your wildest dreams There hasn't been any explosion We're not spinning like Dorothy If you look now then you'll see why Don't be afraid to cry This time don't let yourself fly Child Pick up those dancing shoes Kick off those wedding blues These are the ways You can choose Child you're tender Your name's a whisper There's life outside your mother's garden There's life beyond your wildest dreams There hasn't been any explosion We're not spinning like Dorothy And if you look now then you'll see why Don't be afraid to cry This time don't let yourself fly Child Pick up those dancing shoes Kick off those wedding blues These are the ways You can choose Child I love you I'm ever so fond of you |
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4.
My Darling Child
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My darling child My darling baby My darling child You gave life to me My darling child My darling baby My darling child You came and saved me My darling child My darling baby My darling child God gave you to me Me little ninja My little dancer Me little streetfighter Me little chancer Me lovely boy Me lovely babby My pride and joy Me little puppy Me little wolf Me little lamby My favourite boy My angel babby Me little ninja Me little dancer Me little streetfighter Me little chancer Me love me boy Me love me babby My pride and joy Me little puppy |
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Am I Human?
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Am I a human It's very good Maybe I am It's very nice The feelings in me And the fire Keeps me warm |
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6.
Red Football
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I'm not no red football To be kicked around the garden No no I'm a red christmas-tree ball And I'm fragile I'm not no animal Though I am to you I'm not no crocodile Like the one in Dublin Zoo Who lived in a cage the length and breadth of his body When a window which people would look through And throw coins on his back to taunt him 'though he couldn't move Even if he wanted to I'm not no animal in the zoo I'm not no whipping boy for you You may not treat me like you do I'm not no animal in the zoo My skin is not a football for you My head is not a football for you My body's not a football for you My womb is not a football for you My heart is not a football for you I'm not no animal in the zoo This animal will jump up and eat you I'm not no animal in the zoo And I've every intention Of leaping up and getting you |
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All Apologies
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What else should I be All apologies What else should I say Everyone is gay What else could I write I don't have the right What else should I be All apologies In the sun In the sun I feel as one In the sun In the sun I'm married Buried Buried I wish I was like you Easily amused Find my nest of salt Everything's my fault I'll take all the blame Aqua sea-foam shame Sunburn with freezer-burn Choking on the ashes of her enemy In the sun In the sun I feel as one In the sun In the sun I'm married Buried Buried All in all is all we all are |
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8.
A Perfect Indian
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A Perfect Indian is he Remembering him life is sweet Like a weeping willow His face on my pillow Comes to me still in my dreams And there I saw a young baby A beautiful daughter was she A face from a painting Red cheeks and teeth aching Her eyes like a wild Irish sea On a table in her yellow dress For a photograph feigned happiness Why in my life is that the only time That any of you will smile at me I'm sailing on this terrible ocean I've come for my self to retrieve Too long have I been feeling like Lir's children And there's only one way to be free He's shy and he speaks quietly He's gentle and he seems to me Like the elf-arrow His face worn and harrowed Is he a daydreamer like me I'm sailing on this terrible ocean I've come for my self to retrieve Too long have I been feeling like Lir's children And there's only one way to be free |
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9.
Scorn Not His Simplicity
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See the child With the golden hair Yet eyes that show the emptiness inside Do we know Can we understand just how he feels Or have we really tried See him now As he stands alone And watches children play a children's game Simple child He looks almost like the others Yet they know he's not the same Scorn not his simplicity But rather try to love him all the more Scorn not his simplicity Oh no Oh no See him stare Not recognizing the kind face That only yesterday he loved The loving face Of a mother who can't understand what she's been guilty of How she cried, tears of happiness the day the doctor told her it's a boy Now she cries tears of helplessness and thinks of all the things he can't enjoy Scorn not his simplicity But rather try to love him all the more Scorn not his simplicity Oh no Oh no Only he knows how to face the future hopefully Surrounded by despair He won't ask for your pity or your sympathy But surely you should care Scorn not his simplicity But rather try to love him all the more Scorn not his simplicity Oh no Oh no Oh no |
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10.
All Babies
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All babies are born saying God's name Over and over, All born singing God's name All babies are flown from the Universe From there they're lifted by the hands of angels God gives them the stars to use as ladders She hears their calls She is mother and father All babies are born out of great pain Over and over All born into great pain All babies are crying For no-one remembers God's name All babies are born saying God's name Over and over, All born singing God's name All babies are flown from the Universe From there they're lifted by the hands of angels God gives them the stars to use as ladders She hears their calls She is mother and father All babies are born out of great pain Over and over All born into great pain All babies are crying For no-one remembers God's name There's only love There's only love There's only love in this world There's only love There's only love There's only love in this world |
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11.
In This Heart
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In this heart lies for you A lark born only for you Who sings only to you My love My love My love I am waiting for you For only to adore you My heart is for you My love My love My love This is my grief for you For only the loss of you The hurting of you My love My love My love There are rays on the weather Soon these tears will have cried All loneliness have died My love My love My love I will have you with me In my arms only For you are only My love My love My love |
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12.
Tiny Grief Song
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I'd a terrible broken heart I'd a terrible broken heart I'd a terrible broken heart I'd a terrible broken heart You were born on the day my mother was buried. My grief, my grief, my grief, my grief, my grief. You were born on the day my mother was buried. My grief, my grief, my grief, my grief, my grief. |
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13.
Famine
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OK, I want to talk about Ireland Specifically I want to talk about the "famine" About the fact that there never really was one There was no "famine" See Irish people were only allowed to eat potatoes All of the other food Meat, fish, vegetables Were shipped out of the country under armed guard To England while the Irish people starved And then in the middle of all this They gave us money not to teach our children Irish And so we lost our history And this is what I think is still hurting me See we're like a child that's been battered Has to drive itself out of it's head because it's frightened Still feels all the painful feelings But they lose contact with the memory And this leads to massive self-destruction alcoholism, drug adiction All desperate attempts at running And in it's worst form Becomes actual killing And if there ever is gonna be healing There has to be remembering And then grieving So that there then can be forgiving There has to be knowledge and understanding All the lonely people where do they all come from An American army regulation Says you mustn't kill more than 10% of a nation 'Cos to do so causes permanent "psychological damage" It's not permanent but they didn't know that Anyway during the supposed "famine" We lost a lot more than 10% of our nation Through deaths on land or on ships of emigration But what finally broke us was not starvation but it's use in the controlling of our education School go on about "Black 47" On and on about "The terrible famine" But what they don't say is in truth There really never was one (Excuse me) All the lonely people (I'm sorry, excuse me) Where do they all come from (that I can tell you in one word) All the lonely people where do they all belong So let's take a look shall we The highest statistics of child abuse in the EEC And we say we're a Christian country But we've lost contact with our history See we used to worship God as a mother We're sufferin from post traumatic stress disorder Look at all our old men in the pubs Look at all our young people on drugs We used to worship God as a mother Now look at what we're doing to each other We've even made killers of ourselves The most child-like trusting people in the Universe And this is what's wrong with us Our history books the parent figures lied to us I see the Irish As a race like a child That got itself bashed in the face And if there ever is gonna be healing There has to be remembering And then grieving So that there then can be forgiving There has to be knowledge and understanding All the lonely people Where do they all come from All the lonely people Where do they all come from We stand on the brink of a great achievement In this Ireland there is no solution to be found to our disagreements by shooting each other There is no real invader here We are all Irish in all our different kinds of ways We must not, now or ever in the future, show anything to each other exept tolerance, forbearance and neighbourly love Because of our tradition everyone here knows how he is and what God expects him to do |
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14.
Thank You for Hearing Me
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Thank you for hearing me Thank you for hearing me Thank you for hearing me Thank you for hearing me Thank you for loving me Thank you for loving me Thank you for loving me Thank you for loving me Thank you for seeing me Thank you for seeing me Thank you for seeing me Thank you for seeing me And for not leaving me And for not leaving me And for not leaving me And for not leaving me Thank you for staying with me Thank you for staying with me Thank you for staying with me Thank you for staying with me Thanks for not hurting me Thanks for not hurting me Thanks for not hurting me Thanks for not hurting me You are gentle with me You are gentle with me You are gentle with me You are gentle with me Thanks for silence with me Thanks for silence with me Thanks for silence with me Thanks for silence with me Thank you for holding me And saying "I could be" Thank you for saying "Baby" Thank you for holding me Thank you for helping me Thank you for helping me Thank you for helping me Thank you, thank you for helping me Thank you for breaking my heart Thank you for tearing me apart Now I've a strong, strong heart Thank you for breaking my heart |