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* FadingIntoTheNextSong: "Yeats' Grave" fades into "Daffodil Lament" on ''No Need to Argue''

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"Yeats' Grave" fades into "Daffodil Lament" on ''No Need to Argue''
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* FadingIntoTheNextSong: "Yeats' Grave" fades into "Daffodil Lament" on ''No Need to Argue''
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** Generally speaking, any Cranberries song is this for a non-Irish person due to Dolores' thick Limerick accent. There was one lyric video of "Promises" on YouTube where the uploader had misheard the line "so much for your eternal vows" as "so much for you retail lovers".

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** Generally speaking, any Cranberries song is this for a non-Irish person due to Dolores' thick Limerick accent. There was one lyric video of "Promises" on YouTube [=YouTube=] where the uploader had misheard the line "so much for your eternal vows" as "so much for you retail lovers".

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* IndecipherableLyrics: "Dreams" is noted for this. "Zombie" is a lesser case, as [[SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein people only understand the pre-choruses and chorus]].

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** Generally speaking, any Cranberries song is this for a non-Irish person due to Dolores' thick Limerick accent. There was one lyric video of "Promises" on YouTube where the uploader had misheard the line "so much for your eternal vows" as "so much for you retail lovers".
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* PunctuationChangesTheMeaning: A bit of AmbiguousSyntax in the first verse of "Linger": "If you could return, don't let it burn, don't let it fade." However, there's a slight pause after each "don't", so the lyrics can also be interpreted as "don't, let it burn; don't, let it fade", or in other words "don't return, let it burn, let it fade", the complete opposite of what you get at face value. The song is from the perspective of a woman who wants her relationship to end due to her partner not taking it seriously, but is still too deeply in love to go through with a breakup herself, so either meaning can work in this context.

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* PunctuationChangesTheMeaning: A bit of AmbiguousSyntax in the first verse of "Linger": "If you could return, don't let it burn, don't let it fade." However, While at face value, this is a plea for someone to return and not let the relationship fall apart, there's a slight pause after each "don't", so the lyrics can also be interpreted as "don't, let it burn; don't, let it fade", or in other words "don't return, let it burn, let it fade", the complete opposite of what you get at face value.the alternate interpretation. The song is from the perspective of a woman who wants her relationship to end due to her partner not taking it seriously, but is still too deeply in love to go through with a breakup herself, so either meaning can work in this context.
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* PunctuationChangesTheMeaning: A bit of AmbiguousSyntax in the first verse of "Linger": "If you could return, don't let it burn, don't let it fade." However, there's a slight pause after each "don't", so the lyrics can also be interpreted as "don't, let it burn; don't, let it fade", or in other words "don't return, let it burn, let it fade", the complete opposite of what you get at face value. The song is from the perspective of a woman who wants her relationship to end due to her partner not taking it seriously, but is still too deeply in love to go through with a breakup herself, so either meaning can work in this context.
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* LoveHurts: "Linger" is about a woman who knows her lover is cheating on her, but loves him too much to actually go through with the breakup, leaving her wishing he'd just go ahead and dump her himself so she can move on.
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* LyricalDissonance: The band's music was frequently relaxing and even optimistic sounding. Dolores' lyrics on the other hand were almost always angry or sad. "Linger" for example seems like a pretty love song when you listen to the choruses, but when you listen to the verses it's obvious that the subject of the song has cheated on her.
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Do you have to, do you have to\\

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Do you have to, do you have to\\to,\\



-->"'''Linger'''"

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-->"'''Linger'''"
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* AppealToWorseProblems: "Free To Decide" has a couple of lines that suggest the paparazzi focus on something more important than celebrities:
-->''You must have nothing more with your time to do.''\\
''There's a war in Russia and Sarajevo too.''
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* StockingFiller: In "Schizophrenic Playboy" Dolores sings of a woman getting dressed up sexy for a date, with "fishnet stockings and a bottle of wine."
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The Cranberries were an Irish alternative pop/rock band. They formed in Limerick in 1989. The original lineup consisted of lead singer Niall Quinn, lead guitarist Noel Hogan, his brother Mike Hogan on bass guitar, and Fergal Lawler on drums. The band was originally called "[[IncrediblyLamePun The Cranberry Saw Us]]". After less than a year Quinn left the band and the remaining members put out an advertisement for a new singer. Dolores O'Riordan responded to the ad by writing lyrics to some band demos. The song she came up with was "Linger". The band hired her.

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The Cranberries were an Irish alternative pop/rock band. They formed in Limerick in 1989. The original lineup consisted of lead singer Niall Quinn, lead guitarist Noel Hogan, his brother Mike Hogan on bass guitar, and Fergal Lawler on drums. The band was originally called "[[IncrediblyLamePun "[[PunBasedTitle The Cranberry Saw Us]]". After less than a year Quinn left the band and the remaining members put out an advertisement for a new singer. Dolores O'Riordan responded to the ad by writing lyrics to some band demos. The song she came up with was "Linger". The band hired her.
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Their first album, ''Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?'' became a hit both in Britain and America and spawned the hit singles "Dreams" and "Linger". They followed that with ''No Need to Argue'', which featured a somewhat heavier sound, especially in the single "Zombie", which became the biggest hit the group ever had. Their third album, ''To the Faithful Departed'', filled with ultra-serious songs about subjects such as death, the murder of Music/JohnLennon, and the war in Bosnia, sold well but not as well as ''No Need to Argue'', and became a commercial setback for the band. ''Bury the Hatchet'' and ''Wake Up and Smell the Coffee'' received mixed reviews and marginal sales. The band then broke up, embarking on an 11-year hiatus (in which both O'Riordan and Noel Hogan pursued solo projects) before reuniting and putting out new album ''Roses'' in 2012.

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Their first album, ''Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?'' became a hit both in Britain and America and spawned the hit singles "Dreams" and "Linger". They followed that with ''No Need to Argue'', which featured a somewhat heavier sound, especially in the single "Zombie", which became the biggest hit the group ever had. Their third album, ''To the Faithful Departed'', filled with ultra-serious songs about subjects such as death, the murder of Music/JohnLennon, and [[UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars the war in Bosnia, Bosnia]], sold well but not as well as ''No Need to Argue'', and became a commercial setback for the band. ''Bury the Hatchet'' and ''Wake Up and Smell the Coffee'' received mixed reviews and marginal sales. The band then broke up, embarking on an 11-year hiatus (in which both O'Riordan and Noel Hogan pursued solo projects) before reuniting and putting out new album ''Roses'' in 2012.



** "I'm Still Remembering" was written as a tribute to Music/{{Nirvana}} frontman Kurt Cobain, who died in 1994.

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** "I'm Still Remembering" was written as a tribute to Music/{{Nirvana}} frontman Kurt Cobain, Music/KurtCobain, who died in 1994.
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* IndecipherableLyrics: "Dreams" is noted for this. "Zombie" is a lesser case, as [[SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein people only understand the pre-choruses and chorus]].

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