Yeats’ Grave
The Cranberries * Track #11 On No Need to Argue
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Yeats' Grave by The Cranberries
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The CranberriesProduced by
Julie Gardner & Stephen StreetWrited by
Dolores O’RiordanAbout
Dolores explained her motivation to write this song in January 1994 on an interview to Hot Press:
I was really into Yeats’ poetry, so much so that I wrote a song called “Yeats’ Grave” the first time I went to Sligo and saw where he is buried. I loved his passion, the dreamer he was. And the fact th...
Yeats’ Grave Lyrics
Silenced 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
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 MacBride anyway
And you sit here with me
On the isle Innisfree
And you are writing down everything
But I know by now
Why did you sit here
In the grave...
Why should I blame her
Had they but courage equal to desire
Yeats’ Grave Q&A
Who wrote Yeats’ Grave's ?
Yeats’ Grave was written by Dolores O’Riordan.
Who produced Yeats’ Grave's ?
Yeats’ Grave was produced by Julie Gardner & Stephen Street.
When did The Cranberries release Yeats’ Grave?
The Cranberries released Yeats’ Grave on Mon Oct 03 1994.
What did The Cranberries say about "Yeats' Grave"?
I was really into Yeats’ poetry, so much so that I wrote a song called Yeats’ Grave the first time I went to Sligo and saw where he is buried. I loved his passion, the dreamer he was. And the fact that he looked beyond the material world to matters spiritual, which is really representative of the Ir...
What inspired the song?
In an interview for Hot Press, Dolores:
I just always loved Yeats, him as a human. He was so passionate and just wrote what he felt. I always found it difficult in school because I loved Yeats’ poetry but I wasn’t into analysing it. I just had my own understanding of it, me as a poet myself – a you...