"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.
Systematically, I'm in over my head
Situation I find embarassing
Heeding every warning with the battery's dead
Oh No
Systematically, I'm in over my head
The consequences I find disturbing
Fearing every corner where my tired maps lead
Oh No
Imagine a World where every Love Interest failed
put out or get out, put out or get out
Imagine a World where every Love Interest failed
put out or get out, put out or get of here
Systematically, I'm in over my head
Every singe instance unnerving
Braving territory where most others fear to listen
Oh No
Unfortunately, I'm overloaded in the brain
Worthy conversation now boring
Tried and trued experiments with nothing new to gain
Oh No
Imagine a World where every Love Interest failed
put out or get out, put out or get out
Imagine a World where every Love Interest failed
put out or get out, put out or get of here
Charismatticaly, guess I'm weighing in shot
My heady poetry repulsing
Intersellar contact with an obvious denial
Oh No
Gotta get out of here
Situation I find embarassing
Heeding every warning with the battery's dead
Oh No
Systematically, I'm in over my head
The consequences I find disturbing
Fearing every corner where my tired maps lead
Oh No
Imagine a World where every Love Interest failed
put out or get out, put out or get out
Imagine a World where every Love Interest failed
put out or get out, put out or get of here
Systematically, I'm in over my head
Every singe instance unnerving
Braving territory where most others fear to listen
Oh No
Unfortunately, I'm overloaded in the brain
Worthy conversation now boring
Tried and trued experiments with nothing new to gain
Oh No
Imagine a World where every Love Interest failed
put out or get out, put out or get out
Imagine a World where every Love Interest failed
put out or get out, put out or get of here
Charismatticaly, guess I'm weighing in shot
My heady poetry repulsing
Intersellar contact with an obvious denial
Oh No
Gotta get out of here
Lyrics submitted by Mopnugget
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