Oh my life is changing everyday
In every possible way…

Dolores Mary Eileen O'Riordan [/oʊˈrɪərdən/] (6 September 1971 – 15 January 2018) was an Irish musician and singer-songwriter who led the rock band the Cranberries for 13 years before the band took a break starting in 2003, reuniting in 2009.

Quotes

It's the same old theme
Since nineteen-sixteen
In your head, in your head, they are fighting…

In your head, in your head
Zombie, zombie, zombie-ie-ie.

• Another mother's breaking
  Heart is taking over
  When the violence causes silence
  We must be mistaken.
  • "Zombie" (1993); written after the Warrington bomb attack of 20 March 1993 · Official video on YouTube

• It's the same old theme
  Since nineteen-sixteen
  In your head, in your head, they are fighting
  With their tanks, and their bombs
  And their bombs, and their guns
  In your head, in your head they are crying
  In your head, in your head
  Zombie, zombie, zombie-ie-ie
  What's in your head, in your head
  Zombie, zombie, zombie-ie-ie, oh
  • "Zombie" (1993)

Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? (1993)

And oh my dreams
It's never quite as it seems
'Cause you're a dream to me
Dream to me.

• Oh my life is changing everyday
  In every possible way
  And oh my dreams
  It's never quite as it seems
  Never quite as it seems.
  • "Dreams"; first released as a single (29 September 1992)

• And now I tell you openly
  You have my heart so don't hurt me
  You're what I couldn't find
  A totally amazing mind
  So understanding and so kind
  You're everything to me.
  • "Dreams"

• And oh my dreams
  It's never quite as it seems
  'Cause you're a dream to me
  Dream to me.
  • "Dreams"

Quotes about O'Riordan

• Only yesterday did I discover that her group, or she herself, had composed the song in memory of the event in Warrington.
  My wife came home from the police centre where she worked yesterday and told me the news. I got the song up on the laptop, watched the band singing, saw Dolores and listened to the words.
  The words are both majestic and also very real … The event at Warrington, like the many events that happened all over Ireland and Great Britain, affected families in a very real way and many people have become immune to the pain and suffering that so many people experienced during that armed campaign.
  To read the words written by an Irish band in such compelling way was very, very powerful.
  • Colin Parry, father of a 12 year old child killed in the Warrington bomb attack of 20 March 1993, after learning that her song "Zombie" had been inspired by that event, as quoted in "Dolores O'Riordan thanked by father of IRA bomb victim for 'majestic' lyrics" by Clarisse Loughrey, in The Independent (16 January 2018)

• I’m saddened to hear of the death of Dolores O’Riordan at just 46. Her wonderful band recorded a moving song after the Warrington bomb in memory of two innocent victims, Johnathan Ball and my son Tim. RIP Dolores … I was completely unaware what it was about.
  • Colin Parry, commenting on the song "Zombie" after learning of its meaning, in "Dolores O’Riordan’s ‘majestic’ Zombie lyrics hailed by father of IRA bomb victim" by Nick Reilly in NME (16 January2018); also quoted in "Father of IRA bomb victim thanks Dolores O’Riordan for ‘majestic and very real’ Zombie lyrics" by Rebecca Lewis, in METRO (16 January 2018)

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