Blast from the Recent Past: Nothing Compares To You

Sinead O’Connor’s one of the most bril­liant artists when I was grow­ing up. She’s the Lady Gaga of my generation–pure bril­liant genius minus the crazy stunts.

Noth­ing Com­pares To You has been called by VH1 as one of the Top 100 Songs of 90’s, for good rea­son. It’s one of the best made songs lyri­cally and musi­cally. It’s music is haunt­ing, almost pained, and you could feel the pas­sion behind the lyrics. It talks of an expe­ri­ence we’re all famil­iar with–the painful mem­ory of good­bye, the love that could have been per­fect, and the tragedy of the one that got away.

Because we love, we are never the same again. We are for­ever scarred. We will always remember.

Noth­ing Com­pares to You
Sin­nead O’Connor

It’s been seven hours and fif­teen days
Since you took your love away
I go out every night and sleep all day
Since you took your love away
Since you been gone I can do what­ever I want
I can see whomever I choose
I can eat my din­ner in a fancy restau­rant
But noth­ing …
I said noth­ing can take away these blues,
’Cause noth­ing com­pares …
Noth­ing com­pares to you

It’s been so lonely with­out you here
Like a bird with­out a song
Noth­ing can stop these lonely tears from falling
Tell me baby where did I go wrong?
I could put my arms around every boy I see
But they’d only remind me of you
went to the doc­tor guess what he told me
Guess what he told me?
He said, girl, you bet­ter have fun
No mat­ter what you do
But he’s a fool …
’Cause noth­ing com­pares …
Noth­ing com­pares to you …

All the flow­ers that you planted, mama
In the back yard
All died when you went away
I know that liv­ing with you baby was some­times hard
But I’m will­ing to give it another try
’Cause noth­ing com­pares …
Noth­ing com­pares to you