I think she is singing about her childhood - the young girl, inside, who is dead. To Sinead this girl has "buried", but is still alive and waiting for the older girl/the woman to return. Sinead is attached and in love with herself as a girl and returns there even as others shun here (the priests, etc.) As the dead girl rests, the older woman will be her shelter - keeping the girl alive in her heart and mind.
For the woman the girl is HER pillar of light and brightness. The woman is tired and surrendering, she is choosing to perhaps "return" to the girl soon (death - suicide, madness or old age - but she is happy the end approaches). Any comments around this notion ???
this would make a lot of sense. if you've heard the CD Sinead released next--"Universal Mother"--she returns to the theme of grieving for her lost childhood, again and again. "A Perfect Indian" being a good example.
this would make a lot of sense. if you've heard the CD Sinead released next--"Universal Mother"--she returns to the theme of grieving for her lost childhood, again and again. "A Perfect Indian" being a good example.
this melody is a dirge. the visual image of the second verse: it's so morbid, one tends to shrink from comprehending it. "stretched at your head," as if the living girl is suspended above the dead one (in the same position). hot & wild tears raising clouds of mist in the night.
this melody is a dirge. the visual image of the second verse: it's so morbid, one tends to shrink from comprehending it. "stretched at your head," as if the living girl is suspended above the dead one (in the same position). hot & wild tears raising clouds of mist in the night.
@InfiniteHeart I like this interpretation the best. I’m not sure what the song is actually about, being an old ballad going back centuries, but in thinking of Sinead, it feels right that the girl she loved as a child is herself a grown woman because her relationship with her own mom was not a positive one, from what I gather.
@InfiniteHeart I like this interpretation the best. I’m not sure what the song is actually about, being an old ballad going back centuries, but in thinking of Sinead, it feels right that the girl she loved as a child is herself a grown woman because her relationship with her own mom was not a positive one, from what I gather.
I think she is singing about her childhood - the young girl, inside, who is dead. To Sinead this girl has "buried", but is still alive and waiting for the older girl/the woman to return. Sinead is attached and in love with herself as a girl and returns there even as others shun here (the priests, etc.) As the dead girl rests, the older woman will be her shelter - keeping the girl alive in her heart and mind.
For the woman the girl is HER pillar of light and brightness. The woman is tired and surrendering, she is choosing to perhaps "return" to the girl soon (death - suicide, madness or old age - but she is happy the end approaches). Any comments around this notion ???
this would make a lot of sense. if you've heard the CD Sinead released next--"Universal Mother"--she returns to the theme of grieving for her lost childhood, again and again. "A Perfect Indian" being a good example.
this would make a lot of sense. if you've heard the CD Sinead released next--"Universal Mother"--she returns to the theme of grieving for her lost childhood, again and again. "A Perfect Indian" being a good example.
this melody is a dirge. the visual image of the second verse: it's so morbid, one tends to shrink from comprehending it. "stretched at your head," as if the living girl is suspended above the dead one (in the same position). hot & wild tears raising clouds of mist in the night.
this melody is a dirge. the visual image of the second verse: it's so morbid, one tends to shrink from comprehending it. "stretched at your head," as if the living girl is suspended above the dead one (in the same position). hot & wild tears raising clouds of mist in the night.
@InfiniteHeart I like this interpretation the best. I’m not sure what the song is actually about, being an old ballad going back centuries, but in thinking of Sinead, it feels right that the girl she loved as a child is herself a grown woman because her relationship with her own mom was not a positive one, from what I gather.
@InfiniteHeart I like this interpretation the best. I’m not sure what the song is actually about, being an old ballad going back centuries, but in thinking of Sinead, it feels right that the girl she loved as a child is herself a grown woman because her relationship with her own mom was not a positive one, from what I gather.