Singalong! Zombie by The Cranberries

My main memory of this song is that youthful feeling that there was something really deep and meaningful going on here, but that I had no idea what it was.  I was totally drawn to this song and everything that sense of lurking darkness and meaning, but did not yet have any of the tools to understand what it was about.  In the meantime, I also learned that, while it might seem like a fun idea to do this song at karaoke so that you can yelp and yodel the refrain, you will also be stuck on stage for a really really long musical outro that you were not prepared for.  You have been warned.

ZOMBIE

by The Cranberries

Another head hangs lowly

Child is slowly taken

And the violence caused such silence

Who are we mistaken

But you see it's not me

It's not my family

In your head, in your

Head they are fighting

With their tanks and their bombs

And their bombs and their guns

In your head,

In your head they are cryin'

In your head, in your head

Zombie, zombie, zombie

Hey, hey

What's in your head, in your head

Zombie, zombie, zombie

Hey, hey, hey, oh

Dou, dou, dou, dou

Dou, dou, dou, dou

Dou, dou, dou, dou

Dou, dou, dou, dou

Another mother's breakin'

Heart is taking over

When the violence causes silence

We must be mistaken

It's the same old theme since nineteen-sixteen

In your head,

In your head they're still fightin'

With their tanks and their bombs

And their bombs and their guns

In your head, in your head they are dyin'

In your head, in your head

Zombie, zombie, zombie

Hey, hey

What's in your head, in your head

Zombie, zombie, zombie

Hey, hey, hey

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

Hey, oh, ya, ya-a