Watching you react to this song breaks my heart. Nobody as beautiful as you should feel sad. As for the song, it is incredibly moving and emotional at the same time. Thank you. It's always a pleasure to see you and to hear your voice. Next time I want to see you smile.
The Cranberries were on tour in England when the IRA (Irish Republican Army ) put a bomb in a litter bin inthe shopping area of Warrington which killed two young children , Dolores wrote this song in a hotel room after said event
Here’s what Delores said about why she wrote the song. “There were a lot of bombs going off in London and I remember this one time a child was killed when a bomb was put in a rubbish bin -- that's why there's that line in the song, 'A child is slowly taken,'" O'Riordan told Songwriting Magazine. "We were on a tour bus and I was near the location where it happened, so it really struck me hard - I was quite young, but I remember being devastated about the innocent children being pulled into that kind of thing. So I suppose that's why I was saying, 'It's not me' - that even though I'm Irish it wasn't me, I didn't do it. Because being Irish, it was quite hard, especially in the UK when there was so much tension." She told Vox magazine in 1994 that the song was written in part as a mechanism to grapple with her identity as an Irish citizen that did not support the actions of the IRA. "The IRA are not me. I'm not the IRA. The Cranberries are not the IRA. My family are not. ... When it says in the song, 'It's not me, it's not my family,' that's what I'm saying. It's not Ireland".
Bad Wolves did an incredible cover that Dolores was supposed to join the band for the song. She tragically died on the veey day they were to do the video. Bad Wolves donated all the money from the video to her children. Bad Wolves -"Zombie" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9XaS93WMRQQ.htmlsi=anuPMAcNyKVZQ3_B 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Took the words right out of my mouth heavy and I am hurt to spend before but I thought they were in the 60s and 70s I have to start listening to them more . Ola it's OK too cry. Bye. ❤😊
I think few in the day took the time to understand the deep meaning of this song, I know I did not. It is only now seeing reactions and the video that I understand. It is said that they got access into the area with the solders saying they "were doing a documentary". It was written about the young victims of a bombing in Warrington, England, during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, but applies to any conflict. Thanks for sharing your reaction, it is a hard one 😞
This song gives me massive chills as I was in Warrington town centre when the bombs went off and ended the lives of two little angels Johnathan Ball and Timothy parry
The song "Zombie". "Zombie”‘s genesis is traceable to March 20, 1993, when two bombs, planted by the Irish Republican Army, exploded in the northern English town of Warrington. The blast from the second bomb injured dozens of people, but most cruelly claimed the lives of three-year-old Jonathan Ball and 12-year-old Tim Parry: a twin tragedy that shocked and appalled both the UK and Irish public.
If you don’t know you should research “the troubles” a very very long conflict in Ireland. As an American I feel like most of us don’t know the extent and length of the destruction it caused. I love how “Derry girls” on Netflix showed a comedic but serious tone about how it was growing up in Northern Ireland in the early 90s.
This is sad, but when people find out, and it is coming, what has been done to countless children, by people you would never imagine, in our government, entertainment, it will truly be more than most can take. I have learned for years now, so much truth.
It's not that the Bad Wolves cover of this song is bad, it's not, it's O.K., but the Cranberries original version is just so much better. I don't know why I only ever hear the cover version on the radio and never the O.G. version.
More than 13,800 children have been killed in Gaza and 113 in the West Bank, and over 12,009 children have been injured in Gaza and at least 725 children in the West Bank, according to OCHA and the Ministry of Health in Gaza
It is a sad reminder of the "war" in the 80s and 90s involving my relatives in Ireland. This song must have more context. The RUC (British govt arm of the occupying force of Northern Ireland had killed 74 Irish citizens, none of which did anything except be acquainted or relatives of active IRA members. Where is their song? They tried to keep it under wraps but reporters found the trails. So, while I disagree with bombing as a motivational political tactic, I understand the hatred they had for the limeys. Arrogant prickks that changed the RUC's name after the blood stains showed, and are still in control.
In any armed conflict no matter what side of the political divide you are on to deliberately target civilian targets for whatever the reason is not only against the articles of war and the Geneva convention but is in fact murder and nothing else. No side in any conflict can justify such an action and should be held to account and prosecuted for those actions.
I remember back when artists had free speech. It was great. She likely helped end this terrible conflict, but today they would have Delores jailed for speaking against things.
