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17 Jan 2018, 7:58 pm

Something about their third album gives me these strange feelings, as if I must have known Dolores very well in a previous life, and my soul is struggling to remember it all. I know it sounds crazy, but it was almost like an awakening, and since then I'll catch brief glimpses of other memories, which has really been fueling my songwriting.

Needless to say, awfully sad to hear the news.

Just this morning, I picked up my guitar, but I wasn't feeling anything...scanned through my "songbook", saw Slip Sliding Away and immediately thought "yes, that song is perfect." Honest, I wasn't at all consciously thinking about it until I got to the line, "Dolores, I live in fear. My love for you's so overpowering I'm afraid that I will disappear." I don't know if she was a Paul Simon fan, but it felt like she wanted to hear it. I finished the song, put my guitar away.

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A pretty common way of grieving I think. I do it if an artist I am very fond of dies.

When Dio and Chris Cornell died, it was such a shock, such a heavy blow, I couldn't listen to their music for months :(

This has been different, I'm not sure why.


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17 Jan 2018, 9:43 pm

ASPartOfMe wrote:
LoveNotHate wrote:
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"Zombie" makes me think of PTSD.

"it's in your head ..." the zombie flashbacks of when you were hurt

"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"


The song was an anti war song.
Wikipedia

Your link doesn't say it's an "anti-war song".

"In your head" seems to indicate "war flashbacks/memories".

"Zombie" seems to indicate antagonism from "something that won't die" (memories that won't die)

So, PTSD , recurring flashbacks of the war.


Cranberries hit song 'Zombie' was inspired by true-story of IRA child murder and victim's father was completely unaware of it
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The dad of a young IRA bomb victim said he was “completely unaware” that the tragic story of his son inspired the Cranberries hit song ‘Zombie’.

Tim Parry, 12, was killed alongside three-year-old Jonathan Ball in an IRA bombing in Warrington in 1993.

The death were caused by two bombs which went off in quick succession at lunchtime.

One exploded outside Boots and McDonald's and the second outside an Argos.

The area was crowded with shoppers and witnesses said that shoppers fled from the first explosion into the path of the second.

It was later found that the bombs had been placed inside cast-iron litter bins, causing large amounts of shrapnel - 54 other people were injured, four of them seriously.

he father of one of the dead boys, Colin Parry appeared on BBC Good Morning Ulster to pay tribute to the Limerick singer and said he was touched by the lyrics after finding out they were about his 12-year-old son Tim .

Mr Parry said he was unaware that the hit song, released in 1994, was written in memory of the two young boys.

He said: “Only yesterday did I discover that her group, or she herself, had composed the song in memory of the event in Warrington.

“I was completely unaware what it was all about."


"they are fighting With their tanks, and their bombs And their bombs, and their guns" and "It's the same old theme
Since nineteen-sixteen" are referring to a then still ongoing conflict which the bombing was a part of.

IMHO "Zombie" and "in your head" are referring to the mindset of the bombers and those participating in that conflict unaware or not caring about the pain they are causing which would make it an anti war song.

If it relates to you as a PTSD song that is fine, art should be and will be interpreted by the listener based on their needs regardless of the original intent.


The IRA connection was what I always thought the song was about.


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