LYRICS 01. Something Beautiful {O'Connor} ---------------------------------------------------------------- I wanna make Something beautiful For U and from U To show U To show U I adore U Oh U And your journey Toward me Which I see And I see All U push through Mad for U And because of U I couldn't thank U in ten thousand years If I cried ten thousand rivers of tears Ah but U know the soul and U know what makes it gold U who give life through blood Oh I wanna make something So lovely for U 'Cos I promised that's what I'd do for U With the bible I stole I know U forgave my soul Because such was my need on a chronic Christmas Eve And I think we're agreed that it should have been free And U sang to me They dress the wounds of my poor people As though they're nothing Saying "peace, peace" When there's no peace (x2) Now can a bride forget her jewels? Or a maid her ornaments? Yet my people forgotten me Days without number Days without number And in their want Oh in there want And in their want Who'll dress their wounds? Who'll dress their wounds? 02. We People Who Are Darker Than Blue (Curtis Mayfield) ---------------------------------------------------------------- We people who are darker than blue Don't let us hang around this town And let what others say come true We're just good for nothing they all figure A boyish grown up shiftless jizzer Now we can't hardly stand for that Or is that really where it's at? We people who are darker than blue We've got no time for segregating I'm talking about brown and yellow too I a white girl can't U tell I'm just the surface of our dark deep well If your mind could really see You'd know your colour's same as me Pardon me brother As U stand in your glory I know U won't mind If I tell the whole story Now I know we have great respect For the sister and the mother It's even better yet But there's the joker in the street Loving one brother and killing the other When the time comes and we are really free There'll be no brothers left to see We people who are darker than blue Don't let us hang around this town And let what others say come true We're just good for nothing they all figure A boyish grown up shiftless jizzer Now we can't hardly stand for that Or is that really where its at? 03. Out Of The Depths {O'Connor} ---------------------------------------------------------------- Out of the depths I cry to U oh lord Don't let my cries for mercy be ignored If U keep account of sins oh who would stand? But U have forgiveness in your hands And I've heard religion say you're to be feared But I don't buy into everything I hear And it seems to me you're hostage to those rules That were made by religion and not by U And I'm wondering will u ever get yourself free Is it bad to think U might like help from me? Is there anything my little heart can do To help religion share us with U? For oh you're like a ghost in your own home Nobody hears U crying all alone Oh U are the one true really voiceless one They have their backs turned to you for worship of Gold and stone And to see U prisoner oh makes me weep Nobody hears U screaming in the streets And it's sad but true how the old saying goes If God lived on earth people would break his windows I long for U as watchmen long for the end of night 04. Dark I Am Yet Lovely {O'Connor} ---------------------------------------------------------------- Dark I am yet lovely as tents of Kedar As the pavilions of Solomon either Don't hate me because the sun has darkened me All my mother's sons were so angry with me They made me watch the vineyards My own things I did not guard On my bed at night I sought whom my soul loves Oh I sought I sought but I found him not So I ask U daughters of Jerusalem Where is my love? Oh tell me have U seen him? Majestic as Lebanon stately as cedars His mouth so delicious his fragrance so pleases Such is my beloved such is my darling And if U see him say my heart is pining For the kisses of his mouth and his flavours Oh the king had brought me into his chambers Say I delight in his love Say he's the one my soul was Vast floods can't quench love no matter what love did Rivers can't drown love no matter where love's hid So when U do find him out Bring him to my mother's house And into the chamber of her who conceived me Then will he know me and then will he see me Tell him that love isn't done Tell him don't leave me alone 05. If You Had A Vineyard {O'Connor} ---------------------------------------------------------------- If U had a vineyard On a fruitful hill And U fenced it and cleared it Of all stones until U planted it With the choicest of vine And U even built a tower And a press to make wine And U looked that it would bring forth sweet grapes And it gave only wild grapes What would U say? Jerusalem and Judah U be the judges I pray Between me and my vineyard This is what God says What more could I have done in it That I did not do in it? Why when I ask it for sweetness It brings only bitterness For the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts Is the house of Israel And the men of Judah His pleasant plant And he looks for justice but beholds oppression And he hopes for equality but hears a cry Jerusalem and Judah This is God's reply Sadness will come to those who build house to house And lay field to field 'til there's room For none but U to dwell in the land Oh in the land And sadness will come to those who call evil good And good evil Who present darkness as light and light as darkness Who present as sweetness only the things which are bitterness For the vineyard of The Lord of Hosts Is the house of Israel And the men of Judah his pleasant plant Oh that my eyes were a fountain of tears That I might weep for my poor people For every boot stamped with fierceness For every cloak rolled in blood Jerusalem and Judah I'd cry if I could 06. 33 {O'Connor/Tomlinson} ---------------------------------------------------------------- Sing oh U righteous to the lord It's right that the upright should acclaim him Sing to Jah with your guitar Turn up yer bass amp Whack it up all the way to 'save him' By the word of Jah heaven was made By the breath of his mouth all its hosts He gathers up the oceans like a mound And stores the deep Stores the deep in vaults Sing him a new song Sing sweet with shouts of joy For the word of Jah is right And he sees what is right And he loves what is right And the earth is full of his care Jah spoke and it was He commanded and it endured He frustrates the plans of nations And brings to nothing The designs of people 07. Watcher Of Men {O'Connor/Tomlinson} ---------------------------------------------------------------- Why did I not die at birth? Expire as I came from the womb? Why were there knees to receive me? Or breasts to feed me? Why was I not like babies Who never saw the light? Who lie with kings and counsellors Who rebuild ruins for themselves And where rest Those whose strength is spent where small and great are alike and the slave is free of his master Oh watcher of men Do U have eyes of flesh? Is your vision like man? Are your years the years of man? U know that I'm not guilty And that none can deliver from your hand. Also u know that u have deeply wronged me oh And u have fenced me in You made it so nobody knows me And I'm an outsider to them When I accused U, U wouldn't speak I said U tore up my hope like a tree But I spoke without understanding Of things beyond me which I did not know And now I've heard U with my ears And I've seen U with my eyes Therefore I recant and relent Being but dust and ashes 08. The Glory Of Jah {O'Connor/Tomlinson} ---------------------------------------------------------------- There is no holy one like U U install kings and take them down Truly there is no one beside U U made all of creation with wisdom May the glory of Jah endure forever The boughs of the mighty are broken And the weak are clothed with strength There is the sea, vast and wide With all its creatures beyond number There go the ships, they all look to U U lift up the poor into a place of honour May the glory of Jah endure forever The boughs of the mighty are broken And the weak are clothed with strength The lord makes poor or he makes rich The pillars of the earth belong to him And he has set his world upon them To raise us up from the dunghill May the glory of Jah endure forever The boughs of the mighty are broken And the weak are clothed with strength. 09. Whomsoever Dwells {O'Connor/Tomlinson} ---------------------------------------------------------------- Whomsoever dwells In the shelter Of the most high Lives under the protection of the Shaddai I say of my lord That he is my fortress That he is my own love In whom I trust That he will save u From the fowler's trap And he will save U From any Babylon crap And he will lift U All up in his wings And you'll find refuge Oh underneath those things And his truth will be your Shield and rampart So u need not fear What comes looking for U in the dark And U need not fear What comes looking for U in the day And U need not fear What takes everybody else away Ten thousand may fall at your side Ten thousand at your right But it can't come near U 'Cos you're dealing with the most high And he will send his angels to mind U And they will lift u all up so that U Won't strike your foot against no stone 10. The Rivers Of Babylon {Trad. Arr Sinead O'Connor, extra lyrics by Sinead O'Connor} ---------------------------------------------------------------- By the rivers of Babylon Where I sat down There I wept When I remembered Zion There on the poplars I broke my guitar Because my tormentors required songs Songs of where I'm from Songs of where I'm from Oh songs of Zion If I forget U oh Jah May both my hands wither And may my mouth freeze If I forget how I knelt at your feet. 11. I Don't Know How To Love Him {Andrew Lloyd Webber / Tim Rice} ---------------------------------------------------------------- I don't know how to love him What to do how to move him I've been changed Yes really changed In these last few days When I've seen myself I seem like someone else And I don't know how to take this I don't see why he moves me He's a man He's just a man And I've had so many men before In very many ways He's just one more Should I bring him down Should I scream and shout Should I speak of love Let my feelings out I never thought Id come to this What's it all about Yet if he said he loved me I'd be lost I'd be frightened I couldn't cope Just couldn't cope I'd turn my head I'd back away I wouldn't want to know He scares me so.