thank you for your beauty...inside and out.
thank you for your voice...which is from another dimension.
thank you for standing unafraid against a world that destroys anything with an identity, an opinion, or a soul. a world that despises honesty and is almost never willing to face its own fears or the truth.
thank you for your emotional disorder.
thank you for your bald head, and for your tears.
thank you for basically sacrificing a career people would (and do) kill for, in order to maintain your own voice and to stand strong by your own convictions.
i'm sorry for the way people treated you. from your childhood to the moment you stood on the stage at Madison Square Garden at the Bob Dylan Tribute Concert, a lone brave and talented 25-year-old girl from ireland being crucified by a mob of tens of thousands like a witch on trial.
they were so scared of you, Sinead. you shook the delusional axis of this planet in a way it just couldn't withstand.
i was very young during those days, and living in a sheltered world where i never really had the chance to appreciate your music or your actions. quite the opposite actually. as a child, i too was trained to hate warriors like you.
but i find inspiration in you now. and the sound of your voice - and the rage & pain it unleashes with such clarity - shatters something within me.
i don't know you. i've never met you, and i probably never will.
but sometimes i go on, because you did.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
dear Sinead O'Connor,
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Thanks Jay for pouring it out to such a deserving soul as Sinead. I was a blind critic once also. Such a shame that we can keep each other in such tiny boxes...and suffocate ourselves. Good to live in a boxless world. Thanks for you.
Amazing Jay. SÃnead had always been an amazing voice in the wilderness, the cry in the dark that reminds us that we are alive.
I want to listen to "Troy" right now.
Good words, Jay. I remember watching her tear up the photo of the Pope. It was stirring.
Beautiful.
Great woman - great admirer. Whenever I am in a wallowing mood I play "I do not want what I do not have." She has always been a inspiration to me whether it be musical or political. Will always Love - Love - Love Her.
Amusingmav
I was listening to your music in the car the other day and my friend said that you should do a cover of "Nothing Compares 2 U." I think it's a good idea and that you would sound lovely on it. Sinead is wonderful
I loved this, Jay.
I saw Sinead perform in Ireland in 1988, before I left for the U.S. She was a very quiet young girl in a tutu! Before she started to sing, that is...
My favorite song off her first album is "Just Like You Said It Would Be."
What got to me was a recent interview on NPR, where she explained that she tore up the picture of the Pope because of the priest/child abuse scandal that had *already* hit Ireland. And I watched, totally clueless, as so many were... I really did not get it.
Yeah, she's very brave. Thanks for the tribute. Perhaps she'll see it.
Gabriella
Just read up on her... she really was something, wasn't she? She stood up for something, and followed it whole-heartedly. No one does that anymore. Everyone just peters out and says that what thy are doing is "good enough"... myself included. She is a bit more extraordinary than we, and for that, i keep her in my thoughts.
Just read up on her... she really was something, wasn't she? She stood up for something, and followed it whole-heartedly. No one does that anymore. Everyone just peters out and says that what thy are doing is "good enough"... myself included. She is a bit more extraordinary than we, and for that, i keep her in my thoughts.
that is beautiful, Jay. thanks for a brief glimmer into your inner world.
...I Am Stretched On Your Grave gives you a glimpse into the soul of Sinead...it is pure poetry!
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How very wonderful it is that you have spoken what so many of us feel for the Fabulous Sinead O'Connor.Thank you so much,what a lovely person you are. Susan
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