"Zombie" is about the ethno-political conflict in Ireland. This is obvious if you know anything of the singer (Dolores O'Riordan)'s Irish heritage and understood the "1916" Easter Rising reference.
"Another head hangs lowly
Child is slowly taken
And the violence caused such silence
Who are we mistaken
-
Another mother's breaking
Heart is taking over"
Laments the Warrington bomb attacks in which two children were fatally injured on March 23rd, 1993. Twelve year old Tim Parry was taken off life support with permission from his mother after five days in the hospital, virtually braindead.
"But you see it's not me
It's not my family"
References how people who are not directly involved with the violence feel about it. They are "zombies" without sympathy who refuse to take action while others suffer.
The apartment is quite empty
The ashtray is quite full
And there must be some slight difference
Between myself and loneliness
As I wait over backwards
And move across this floor
I'll be back in half an hour
If you could wait a little more
Scarlet light's a cigarette
Evening closes in around us both
Cause this apartment is dumb and boring
This year the confidence was
Lost on the way down
Lifting fingerprints from old matchbooks
Lost on the way down
To wait and not know what to wait for
To wait this year we tried it's over
Cop cars and taxi cabs
Either move too slow or too fast
This apartment is dumb and broken
This year the confidence was
Lost on the way down
Lifting fingerprints from old matchbooks
Lost on the way down
To wait and not know what to wait for
To wait this year we tried it's over
This time I'll try again before
Once let's try again once more
Once we try to get a feel
This time try again
As the dust settles in
Got lost on the way down
Lifting fingerprints from old matchbooks
Lost on the way down
To wait and not know what to wait for
To wait this year we tried it's over
This time I'll try again before
Once let's try again once more
Once we tried again before
This time tried again
The ashtray is quite full
And there must be some slight difference
Between myself and loneliness
As I wait over backwards
And move across this floor
I'll be back in half an hour
If you could wait a little more
Scarlet light's a cigarette
Evening closes in around us both
Cause this apartment is dumb and boring
This year the confidence was
Lost on the way down
Lifting fingerprints from old matchbooks
Lost on the way down
To wait and not know what to wait for
To wait this year we tried it's over
Cop cars and taxi cabs
Either move too slow or too fast
This apartment is dumb and broken
This year the confidence was
Lost on the way down
Lifting fingerprints from old matchbooks
Lost on the way down
To wait and not know what to wait for
To wait this year we tried it's over
This time I'll try again before
Once let's try again once more
Once we try to get a feel
This time try again
As the dust settles in
Got lost on the way down
Lifting fingerprints from old matchbooks
Lost on the way down
To wait and not know what to wait for
To wait this year we tried it's over
This time I'll try again before
Once let's try again once more
Once we tried again before
This time tried again
Lyrics submitted by cindy
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