The Cranberries - No Need To Argue - Lyrics
Copyright (C) 1994 The Cranberries. All rights reserved.


1. Ode To My Family
Understand the things I say.
Don't turn away from me.
'Cause I spent half my life out there.
You wouldn't disagree.
D'you see me, d'you see?
Do you like me?
Do you like me standing there?
D'you notice, d'you know?
Do you see me, do you see me?
Does anyone care?
Unhappiness, where's when I was young
And we didn't give a damn.
'Cause we were raised
To see life as fun and take it if we can.
My mother, my mother she hold me.
Did she hold me when I was out there?
My father, my father, he liked me,
Oh, he liked me. Does anyone care?
Understand what I've become.
It wasn't my design.
And people everywhere
Think something better than I am.
But I miss you, I miss,
'Cause I liked it, I liked it When I was out there.
Do you know this, do you know?
You did not find me, you did not find.
Does anyone care?
Unhappiness, was when I was young
And we didn't give a damn.
'Cause we were raised
To see life as fun and take it if we can.
My mother, my mother she hold me.
Did she hold me when I was out there?
My father, my father, he liked me,
Oh, he liked me. Does anyone care?


2. I Can't Be With You
Lying in my bed again
And I cry cause you're not here.
Crying in my head again
And I know that it's not clear.
Put you hands, put your hands
Inside my face and see that it's just you.
But it's bad and it's mad
And it's making me sad
Because I can't be with you.
Be with you (x6)
Baby I can't be with you.
Thinking back on how things were,
And on how we loved so well.
I wanted to be the mother of your child,
And now it's just farewell.
Put you hands in my hands
And come with me.
We'll find another end.
And my head, and my head
On anyone's shoulder.
'Cause I can't be with you.
Be with you (x6)
Baby I can't be with you.
Cause you're not here.
You're not here.
Baby, I can't be with you.
'Cause you're not here.
You're not here.
Baby, still in love with you.


3. Twenty one
I don't think it's going to happen anymore.
You took my thoughts from me, Now I want nothing more.
And did you think you could just take it all away.
I don't think it's happening. This is what I say.
Leave me alone (x3)
'Cause I found it all
Twenty-one (x3)
So I don't think it's going to happen anymore.
I don't think it's going to happen anymore.
Twenty-one (x6)
Today (x4)
Twenty-one (x14)

"Twenty One" was written on September 6th 1992


4. Zombie
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 there tanks and their bombs
And their bombs and their guns.
In your head, in your head they are cryin'.
In your head (x2)
Zombie (x3)
What's in you head,
In your head?
Zombie (x3)
Another mother's breaking
Heart is taken over.
When the violence causes silence
We must be mistaken.
It's the same old theme
Since 1916.
In your head, in your head
They're still fighting.
With their tanks and their bombs
And their bombs and their guns.
In your head, in your head
They are dying.
In your head (x2)
Zombie (x3)
What's in you head,
In your head?
Zombie (x3)

"Zombie" was written on the Cranberries English tour 1993. Man's inhumanity to man, and worse still, to child.


5. Empty
Something has left my life
And I don't know where it went to.
Somebody caused me strife
And it's not what I was seeking.
Didn't you see me, didn't you hear me?
Didn't you see me standing there.
Why did you turn out the lights?
Did you know that I was sleeping?
Say I prayer for me.
Help me to feel the strength I did.
My identity, Has it been taken?
Is my heart breakin'on me?
All my plans fell through my hands.
They fell through my hands on me.
All my dreams, It suddenly seems,
It suddenly seems empty...


6. Everything I Said
It makes me lonely.
It makes me very lonely,
When I see you here,
Waiting on.
He makes me tired.
He makes me very tired.
And inside of me,
Lingers on.
But you have your heart.
Don't believe it,
And you will find it
Waiting on.
Everything I said, oh,
Well I meant it.
And inside my head,
Holding on.
'Cause if I died tonight
Would you hold my hand, oh,
Would you understand.
And if I lied in spite
Would you still be here, no,
Would you disappear?
Surely must be you,
Surely must be you,
But I don't make you lonely.
I'll get over you,
I'll get over you,
But I don't make you lonely.


7. The Icicle Melts
When, when will the icicle melt?
(The icicle, icicle)
And when, when will the picture show end?
(The picture show, picture show
I should not have read the paper today.
'Cause a child, child, child, child, he was taken away.
(Taken away)
There's a place for the baby that died.
And there's a time for the mother who cried.
And she will hold him in her arms sometime.
'Cause nine months is too long, too long, too long.
How, how could you hurt a child?
How could you hurt a child?
Now does this make you satisfied,
Satisfied, satisfied?
I don't know what's happening to people today.
When I child, child, child, child, he was taken away.
(Taken away)
There's a place for the baby that died.
And there's a time for the mother who cried.
And she will hold him in her arms sometime.
'Cause nine months is too long, too long, too long.
(Too long)


8. Disappointment
Disappointment,
Oh, you shouldn't have done,
You couldn't have done,
You wouldn't the things you did then.
And I could have been happy.
What a piteous thing,
A hideous thing,
Was tainted by the rest.
But it won't get any harder.
And I hope you'll find your way again.
And it won't get any higher.
And it all boils down to what you did then.
In the night we fight.
I fled, you're right.
It was exactly then.
Tt was exactly then.
I decided, decided, decided, decide.
Oh, and threw you out.
In the night we fight.
I fled, you're right.
It was exactly then.
It was exactly then.
I decided, decided, decided, decided.
But it won't be any harder.
And I hope you'll find your way again.
And it won't get any higher.
And it all boils down to what you did then.

Written on making a clear decision, no more struggle inside


9. Ridiculous Thoughts
Twister, oh,
Does anyone see through you?
You're a twister oh, an animal.
But you're so happy, now.
I didn't go along with you,
So happy now, na na na.
But you're gonna have to hold on.
You're gonna have to hold on.
You're gonna have to hold on, hold on, hold on.
Or we're gonn have to move on.
We're gonna have to move on.
We're gonna have to move on, move on, move on.
I feel alright.
And I cried so hard.
The ridiculous thoughts, oh.
I feel alright, alright, alright, alright.
Twister, oh
I shouldn't have trusted in you.
Twister oh, a na na na.
It's not gonna happen now,
You're not gonna make fun of me.
Happen now, na na na na.
But you're gonna have to hold on.
You're gonna have to hold on.
But you're gonna have to hold on, hold on, hold on.
Or we're gonna have to move on.
We're gonna have to move on.
Oh, we're gonna have to move on, move on, move on.
I feel alright.
And I cried so hard.
The ridiculous thoughts, oh.
I feel alright, alright, alright, alright.
You should have lied,
But I cried so hard.
The ridiculous thought, oh.
You should a lied.
But your gonna have to hold on...


10. Dreaming My Dreams
All the things you said to me today
Changed my perspective in every way.
These things count to mean so much to me.
Into my faith, you and your baby.
It's out there.
It's out there.
It's out there.
If you want me I'll be here.
It's out there.
It's out there.
It's out there.
If you want me I'll be here.
I'll be dreaming my dreams with you.
I'll be dreaming my dreams with you.
And there's no other place that I'd lay down my face.
I'll be dreaming my dreams with you.
It's out there.
It's out there.
It's out there.
If you want me I'll be here.
It's out there.
It's out there.
It's out there.
If you want me I'll be here.
I'll be dreaming my dreams with you.
I'll be dreaming my dreams with you.
And there's no other place that I'd lay down my face.
I'll be dreaming my Dreams with you.
Dreaming my dreams with you.
I'll be dreaming my dreams with you.
And there's no other place that I'd lay down my face.
I'll be dreaming my dreams with you.

"Dreaming My Dreams" was written on December 25th 1993. New found happiness. Dedicated to my husband, lover, best friend, support. What more can be said?


11. Yeat's Grave
Silence by death in the grave.
William Butler Yeats couldn't save.
Why did you stand here?
Were you sickened in time?
But I know by now,
Why did you sit here in the grave?
In the grave.
In the grave.
In the grave.
"Why should I blame her,
That she filled my days
With misery, or that she would of late, Have taught to
ignorant men most violent ways, Or hurled the little streets
upon the great, Had they but courage
Equal to desire."
Sad that Maud Gonne couldn't stay,
But she had Mac Bride anyway.
And you sit here with me
On the Isle Innisfree
And you're writing down everything.
But I know by now,
Why did you sit here in the grave?
In the grave.
In the grave.
In the grave.
"Why should I blame her,
Had they but courage equal to desire."
William Butler...

"Yeat's Grave" inspired by these poems by WillIam Butler Yeats:
THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray,
I hear it in the deep heart's core.

NO SECOND TROY
Why should I blame her that she filled my days
With misery, or that she would of late
Have taught to ignorant men most violent ways,
Or hurled the little streets upon the great,
Had they but courage equal to desire?
What could have made her peaceful with a mind
That nobleness made simple as a fire,
With beauty like a tightened bow, a kind
That is not natural in an age like this.
Being high and solitary and most stern?
Why, what could she have done being what she is?
Was there another Troy for her to burn?

12. Daffodil Lament
Holding on, that's what I do
Since I met you.
And it won't be long.
Would you notice
If I left you.
And it's fine for some.
'Cause you're not the one,
You're not the one
There...
All night long
I laid on my pillow.
These things are wrong.
I can't sleep here.
So lovely (x3)
I have decided to leave you forever.
I have decided to start things from here.
Thunder and lightning won't change what I'm feeling.
And the daffodils look lovely today.
And the daffodils look lovely today, look lovely today.
Oh, in your eyes and can see the disguise.
Oh, in your eyes and can see the dismay.
Has anyone seen lightning.
Has anyone looked lovely.
And the daffodils look lovely today...


13. No Need To Argue
There's no need to argue anymore.
I gave all I could, but it left me so sore.
And the thing that makes me mad
Is the one thing that I had.
I knew, I knew I'd lose you.
You'll always be special to me, special to me, to me.
And I remember all the things we once shared.
Watching TV movies on the living room armchair.
But they say it will work out fine.
Was it all a waste of time?
'Cause I knew, I knew I'd lose you.
You'll always be special to me, special to me, to me.
Will I forget in time, ah.
You said I was on your mind.
There's no need to argue,
No need to argue anymore.
There's no need to argue anymore.
Ooooh....
(Special)


14. So Cold In Ireland
Here is a story
Of hope and of glory
He's 18 years old and well,
I fell in love
Where have you gone from me?
The one that I loved endlessly
We used to have a life
Now it's all gone
Mystified, mystified, mystified
Does it have to be so cold in Ireland?
Does it have to be so cold in Ireland?
For me (are thee waitin for me'?)
Where have you gone from me?
The one that I loved endlessly
We were to have a child
Yesterday's gone
Well I knew the time would come
When I'd have to leave, they've won
Look what they've done to me
They've taken my head
It's killing me
Killing me,

Avaible only in the japannesse and aussie release