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(Sinead O'Connor)

this is the last day of our acquaintance

I will meet you later in somebody's office

I'll talk but you won't listen to me

I know what your answer will be

I know you don't love me anymore

You used to hold my hand when the plane took off

Two years ago there just seemed so much more

And I don't know what happened to our love

Today's the day

Our friendship has been stale

And we will meet later to finalize the fucking details

Two years ago the seed was planted

And since then you have taken me for granted

But this is the last day of our acquaintance

I will meet you later in somebody's office

I'll talk but you won't listen to me

I know your answer already

But this is the last day of our acquaintance

I will meet you later in somebody's office

I'll talk but you won't listen to me

I know your answer already

I know your answer already

I know your answer already

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I AM STRETCHED ON YOUR GRAVE

(Phillip King/Frank O'Connor)

I am stretched on your grave

And will lie there forever

If your hands were in mine

I'd be sure we'd not sever

My apple tree my brightness

It's time we were together

For I smell of the earth

And am worn by the weather

When my family thinks

That I'm safe in my bed

From night until morning

I am stretched at your head

Calling out to the air

With tears hot and wild

My grief for the girl

That I loved as a child

Do you remember

The night we were lost

In the shade of the blackthorn

And the chill of the frost

Thanks be to Jesus

We did what was right

And your maiden head still

Is your pillar of light

The priests and the friars

Approach me in dread

Because I still love you

My love and you're dead

I still would be your shelter

Through rain and through storm

And with you in your cold grave

I cannot sleep warm

So I'm stretched on your grave

And will lie there forever

If you hands were in mine

I'd be sure we'd not sever

My apple tree my brightness

It's time we were together

For I smell of the earth

And am worn by the weather

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He moved through the fair
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My own love said to me

"My mother won't mind.

And my daughters won't slight you

for your lack of kind".

He went away from me

and this he did say

"It will not be long, Love,

till our wedding day"

He went away from me

And he moved through the fair

And slowly I watched him

Move here and move there

He went his way homeward

with one star awake

As this swan in the evening

moves over the lake

I dreamed last night

that my own love came in

He came in so sweetly

his feet made no din

He came close beside me

And this he did say

"It will not be long Love

till our wedding day"

It will not be long love

long love

long love

love

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You make me feel so free
A Van Morrison songs Sinead did as a tribute to Van Morrison
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Some people spend their time

just running round in circles

always chasing some exotic bird

I prefer to spend sometime just listening

for that special something

that I've never ever heard

I like a new song to sing, another show

or somewhere entirely different to be

but baby, you make me feel so free

and so I yearn for mysteries calling me

that's the muse, that's the muse

but we only burn up with the passion

when there's absolutely nothing left to lose

I make it to spring

and it's no bed of roses

it's just more hard work

and bad, bad, bad company

but you make me feel so free

baby, you make me feel so free

I heard them saying

that you can have your cake and eat it

when all I wanted was just one free lunch

how can I eat it

when the man that's next to me now

he's grabbed the load and beat me to the punch

how can I even talk about freedom

when you know it's sweet mystery

but baby, you make me feel so free

I'm gonna lay my cards right down on the table

and spin the wheel and roll the dice

and whatever way it comes out

and whatever way it turns out

baby, you know, well that's the price

Well I order again

There's no need to explain

I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity

baby, you make me feel so free

baby, you make me feel so free

free