Theology Album lyrics
DUBLIN SESSIONS
1. Something Beautiful (O’Connor)
2. We People Who Are Darker Than Blue (Curtis Mayfield)
3. Out Of The Depths (O’Connor)
4. Dark I Am Yet Lovely (O’Connor)
5. If You Had A Vineyard (O’Connor)
6. Watcher Of Men (O’Connor/Tomlinson)
7. 33 (O’Connor/Tomlinson)
8. The Glory Of Jah (O’Connor/Tomlinson)
9. Whomsoever Dwells (O’Connor/Tomlinson)
10. Rivers Of Babylon (Trad. Arr. Additional lyrics O’Connor)
11. Hosanna Filio David
LONDON SESSIONS
1. Something Beautiful (O’Connor)
2. We People Who Are Darker Than Blue (Curtis Mayfield)
3. Out Of The Depths (O’Connor)
4. 33 (O’Connor/Tomlinson)
5. Dark I Am Yet Lovely (O’Connor)
6. I Don’t Know How To Love Him (Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd
Webber)
7. If You Had A Vineyard (O’Connor)
8. The Glory Of Jah (O’Connor/Tomlinson)
9. Watcher Of Men (O’Connor/Tomlinson)
10. Whomsoever Dwells (O’Connor/Tomlinson)
11. Rivers Of Babylon (Trad. Arr. Additional lyrics O’Connor)
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.
CREDITS
THEOLOGY (DUBLIN SESSIONS)
Produced by Steve Cooney
Co-Produced by Sinéad O’Connor & Graham
Bolger
Engineered by Graham Bolger
Vocals and some guitar - Sinéad O’Connor
Guitars - Steve Cooney
Mastered by Bob Katz at Digital Domain
Recorded in Dublin using Avalon Guitars & PreSonus preamps
THEOLOGY (LONDON SESSIONS)
Drums Matthew Phillips, Specs
Bass Robbie Shakespeare, Don-E, Mark Gilmour, Andrew Smith
Guitars Hawi, Mark Gilmour, Andrew Smith, Don-E,
RonTom, Sam Cloth Shop
Piano Toby Baker, Don-E
Harp Camilla
Violins Julian Saxi, Neil Williams, Jonah O’Leary
Cellos Diana Tice, Natalie Azario
French Horn Richard Baylis
Flute Nathan Tice
Backing Vocals Bev, Chris Brown, Val
Percussion Speks, Matthew Phillips
I Don’t Know How To Love Him - John Reynolds:
drums and production assistance
Programming RonTom, Dark Knight, Night Mover, Professor Stretch
Recorded at Mayfair Recording Studios, London.
Presidential Suite, Jury’s Hotel, Dublin.
RonTom Residential Studios, London.
Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin.
Olympic Studios, London.
Mixed at Olympic Studios, London.
Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin.
Chief Engineer Marc Frank
Assistant / Mix Engineer George Renwick
Produced by RonTom for Up In Ear Productions.
London Mixes Engineered by Marc Frank, Mixed by RonTom
Additional Mixes Engineered by George Renwick, Mixed by RonTom
Mastered by Chaz Harper at Battery Studios, NYC.
Technical Engineer Brains
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