“Linger” came from Dolores O’Riordan’s first serious kiss. Unfortunately for her, what happened afterwards was considerably less romantic. The future The Cranberries singer was 17. She liked a boy. They kissed. She became completely infatuated.…
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“Dreams” is about falling in love for the first time. That’s really it. No complicated metaphor. No hidden political message. No devastating breakup. Dolores O’Riordan wrote it about the extraordinary emotional shift that happens when…
“Zombie” was written after two children were killed in the 1993 Warrington bombing in England. Three-year-old Johnathan Ball and 12-year-old Tim Parry died after bombs planted by the IRA exploded in Warrington town centre. Dolores…
