"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.
There's a pain in my head
and a hole in my bed
where you used to lay
yesterday
there's a cat on our roof
and he howls at the moon
no one hears his plea
sounds a lot like me
how does it feel to wake up
alone every night
with no one to hold you
and tell you everything's alright
go ask the lonely
how it feels to cry
go ask the lonely how it hurts inside
go ask the lonely how it feels to be free
don't ask me
got some time on my hands
got these chains off my feet
oh does it mean
my life's complete
there's a song in my heart
and i keep going on
but that doesn't mean it's
easy to be strong
whatever happened to all our
hopes and dreams
whatever happened to you
and me
you and me
go ask the lonely
how it feels to cry
go ask the lonely how it hurts inside
go ask th elonely how it feels to be free
don't ask me
and a hole in my bed
where you used to lay
yesterday
there's a cat on our roof
and he howls at the moon
no one hears his plea
sounds a lot like me
how does it feel to wake up
alone every night
with no one to hold you
and tell you everything's alright
go ask the lonely
how it feels to cry
go ask the lonely how it hurts inside
go ask the lonely how it feels to be free
don't ask me
got some time on my hands
got these chains off my feet
oh does it mean
my life's complete
there's a song in my heart
and i keep going on
but that doesn't mean it's
easy to be strong
whatever happened to all our
hopes and dreams
whatever happened to you
and me
you and me
go ask the lonely
how it feels to cry
go ask the lonely how it hurts inside
go ask th elonely how it feels to be free
don't ask me
Lyrics submitted by numb
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