Lyrics from The Cranberries "The Icicle Melts"

[Pat J. Pinchera]

While still trying to get over the recent tragedies that have happened
to children recently (re: the South Carolina mother who killed her two
children, and the Florida woman who let her husband beat the daughter to
death then claimed she was abducted from a flea market), the following
lyrics just about knocked me over:

I should not have read the paper today
Cause a child, a child he was taken away
There's a place for the baby that died
And there's a time for the mother who cried
[stuff deleted]
How could you hurt a child
Now does this make you satified
I don't know what's happening to people today
When a child, he was taken away

The lyrics are from a song called "The Icicle Melts" on the Cranberries
latest album, _No Need to Argue_. I can't believe how accurate they are
to day's headlines.

(In an attempt to be legal, the lyrics are C 1994 Island Music Ltd.)

[Andrew Hagen]

In article <1994Nov4.2...@mlb.semi.harris.com> p...@sloth.mlb.semi.harris.com (Pat J. Pinchera) writes:
>(re: the South Carolina mother who killed her two
>children,
>

> I should not have read the paper today
> Cause a child, a child he was taken away
> There's a place for the baby that died
> And there's a time for the mother who cried
> [stuff deleted]
> How could you hurt a child
> Now does this make you satified
> I don't know what's happening to people today
> When a child, he was taken away
>
>The lyrics are from a song called "The Icicle Melts" on the Cranberries
>latest album, _No Need to Argue_. I can't believe how accurate they are
>to day's headlines.
>
>(In an attempt to be legal, the lyrics are C 1994 Island Music Ltd.)

"The Icicle Melts" is quite easily interpretable as an anti-abortion
tirade. Part of the lyrics which are not above are:

When a child was taken away

There's a place for the baby that died

There's a place for the mother that cried
And she will hold him in
her arms sometime
Cause nine months is too long

What the tragic murders in South Carolina have to do with "nine months"
being too long is anyone's guess. The best interpretation of "The Icicle
Melts" is that of an anti-abortion song.

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[Dan Lewi Harkestad]

Andrew Hagen (hag...@mhd1.moorhead.msus.edu) wrote:
> What the tragic murders in South Carolina have to do with "nine months"
> being too long is anyone's guess. The best interpretation of "The Icicle
> Melts" is that of an anti-abortion song.

Actually, you are wrong. The song has nothing to do with anti-abortion.
I was at the concert in Oslo (which was a very good concert, btw), and
she said that the song was about a little baby-boy that died tragically.
Dolores would've said so if it had anything to do with anti-abortion.

Dan

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[Hans Huttel]

>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Hagen <hag...@mhd1.moorhead.msus.edu> writes:

Andrew> In article <1994Nov4.2...@mlb.semi.harris.com>

Andrew> p...@sloth.mlb.semi.harris.com (Pat J. Pinchera) writes:
>> (re: the South Carolina mother who killed her two children,
>>
>> I should not have read the paper today Cause a child, a child
>> he was taken away There's a place for the baby that died And
>> there's a time for the mother who cried [stuff deleted] How
>> could you hurt a child Now does this make you satified I don't
>> know what's happening to people today When a child, he was
>> taken away
>>
>> The lyrics are from a song called "The Icicle Melts" on the
>> Cranberries latest album, _No Need to Argue_. I can't believe
>> how accurate they are to day's headlines.
>>
>> (In an attempt to be legal, the lyrics are C 1994 Island Music
>> Ltd.)

Andrew> "The Icicle Melts" is quite easily interpretable as an
Andrew> anti-abortion tirade.

Sorry, no abortion themes here. And nothing about South Carolina
either. The song by The Cranberries is actually about the murder of
Jamie Bulger, a 5-year old boy killed by two other children in
Liverpool in early 1993.

Hans

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[WANG PAUL]

In article <1994Nov7.0...@msus1.msus.edu>,

Andrew Hagen <hag...@mhd1.moorhead.msus.edu> wrote:
>
>"The Icicle Melts" is quite easily interpretable as an anti-abortion
>tirade. Part of the lyrics which are not above are:
>
> When a child was taken away
>
> There's a place for the baby that died
> There's a place for the mother that cried
> And she will hold him in
> her arms sometime
> Cause nine months is too long
>
>
>What the tragic murders in South Carolina have to do with "nine months"
>being too long is anyone's guess. The best interpretation of "The Icicle
>Melts" is that of an anti-abortion song.
>

I read in the recent Details mag that the song is actually about the murder of
the 2 year old boy (taken from a shopping mall..remember those pics?) by a
couple of 10 year olds in Britain a few months ago. Hope that helps.