Zombie

The song Zombie by the Cranberries is one of my favourites and recently as i listen to it made me think how the violence in our lives (especially when we are children) can cause silience. Not necessarily vocal silience, although it could cause that sort of silience, but rather an inner silience, a repressing of emotion, a repressing of self. We can become zombies, although zombies that are not as noticable as real zombies, we are still the living dead, having cut off a part or alot of ourselves we are no longer living. For myself this has been true for a long time, though now i am alot less of a zombie than i was before. If you are a zombie, deal with your wounds of violence, break the silience. Good photo to represent breaking free from being a zombie.

"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 their tanks and their bombs,
And their bombs and their guns.
In your head, in your head, they are crying...

In your head, in your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie,
Hey, hey, hey. What's in your head,
In your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie?
Hey, hey, hey, hey, oh, dou, dou, dou, dou, dou...

Another mother's breakin',
Heart is taking over.
When the vi'lence causes silence,
We must be mistaken.

It's the same old theme since nineteen-sixteen.
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, in your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie,
Hey, hey, hey. What's in your head,
In your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie?
Hey, hey, hey, hey, oh, oh, oh,
Oh, oh, oh, oh, hey, oh, ya, ya-a...


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