Fee fi fo she smells his body
She smells his body
And it makes her sick to her mind
He has got so much to answer for
To answer for
To ruin a child's mind
How could you touch something
So innocent and pure
Obscure
How could you get satisfaction
From the body of a child
You're ville, sick
Chorus
It's true what people say
God protect the ones who help themselves
In their own way
It's true what people say
God protect the ones who help themselves
In their own way
He was sitting in her bedroom
In her bedroom
And now what should she do
She's got so much insecurity
And his impurity
It was a gathering gloom
How could you touch something
So innocent and pure
Obscure
How could you get satisfaction
From the body of a child
You;re vilem sick
Repeat Chorus twice
Fee fi fo
She smells his body
And it makes her sick to her mind
He has got so much to answer for
To answer for
To ruin a child's mind
How could you touch something
So innocent and pure
Obscure
How could you get satisfaction
From the body of a child
You're ville, sick
Chorus
It's true what people say
God protect the ones who help themselves
In their own way
It's true what people say
God protect the ones who help themselves
In their own way
He was sitting in her bedroom
In her bedroom
And now what should she do
She's got so much insecurity
And his impurity
It was a gathering gloom
How could you touch something
So innocent and pure
Obscure
How could you get satisfaction
From the body of a child
You;re vilem sick
Repeat Chorus twice
Fee fi fo
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Fee Fi Fo Lyrics as written by Noel Hogan Dolores Mary O'riordan
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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"How could you get satisfaction from the body of a child?
You're vile, sick"
Of course it's about child abuse...
"
He was sitting in her bedroom
In her bedroom"
First, it's interesting on literary level. Dolores uses 'fragmentary narration' here, a bit like Joyce used to. So-called 'stream of consciousness'. Short description of what happens, then associations and reflections appear just like that, with no 'bridge' between, next short description etc.
Second, this song is also a statement, and the religious one. 'God helps those who help themselves' is typically Protestant approach. Dylan in 'With God on Our Side' did negate this approach from Jewish point of view, looking at history and politics. Cranberries did the same from Catholics side, and on individual example. Because if God really cared only of those who care of themselves, then what about someone too weak to self-protect (child in this case)? And even worse: if God was always on stronger one's side, then what if a sinner is strong enough to get everything he wants, does sinner 'have God on his side' then? Cranberries seem to believe it doesn't make sense.
Next intriguing issue is the title, that 'Fee Fi Fo' which the song begins and ends with, and which seemingly couldn't fit less with such a serious subject. It sounds like careless whistling, sign of some disrespect. It can be the abuser's approach - he doesn't care at all what he just did to a little girl (destroyed her self-respect, robbed her from dignity, killed her innocence) - which would mean he's a kind of psychopath. Also this can be the approach of other people, who either don't notice at all something wrong has happened, or pretend they didn't notice, or (at the worst) underestimate it, thinkin' it's trifle. Or it can be the victim's attitude, who tries to either hide from herself a real meaning of what's happened, or just forget it, to proctect herself from the mental pain.
Also the sound of car engine on the very end of track sounds meaningful.Maybe it symbolizes that perpetrator has escaped from punishment, avoided it. And notice that the same or very similar sound effect returns on the beginning of 'Dying Inside' (on Cranberries' next album), which's lyric could descript the effect of this abuse: he hurt her very 'self' so hard that now she's dying inside, and he still couldn't care less.
And it makes her sick to her mind”
"She's got so much insecurity
And his impurity It was a gathering gloom"
Male & female, 2 abuse cases.