Sinead O'Connor

Fire On Babylon

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She took my father from my life oh
Took my sister and brothers oh
I watched her torturing my child
Feeble I was then but now I'm grown
Fire on Babylon
Oh yes a change has come
Fire on Babylon
Fire
Fire
Fire
She's taken everything I liked
She's taken every lover oh
And all along she gave me lies
Just to make me think I loved her
Fire on Babylon
Oh yes a change has come
Look what she did to her son
Fire
Fire
Fire on
Life's backwards
Life's backwards
People turn around
The house is burned
The house is burned
The children are gone
Fire
Fire
Fire on Babylon
Oh yes a change has come
Fire on Babylon
Fire
Fire, oh
Fire, oh
Fire on Babylon
Oh yes a change has come
Look what she did to her son
Look what she did to her son
Fire, haha
Fire, haha
Fire
Fire
Fire, aha
Fire on Babylon
Fire on Babylon

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jordywordy On Aug 03, 2005

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by MyGrannyIsATranny

19y ago

She said on Behind the Music it's about her mother and the abuse she put her and her siblings though.

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by hey brown bear

19y ago

I think Sinead is talking about England in this, England is the mother. I think she's also speaking of the Irish Famine that caused thousands of people to starve to death. Maybe the "change" is that many Irish people are learning their language and their history... and they're doing something to make their country their own. Who knows though, that's just my opinion.

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by dado507

18y ago

i saw it on wikipedia too. after her parents divorce, she went with her mother and there they were physically abused.

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