Sinéad O’Connor shared the rough-cut of her original song "Horse on the Highway" on Tuesday, just days after the funeral for her 17-year-old son Shane O'Connor.
Ryan Tubridy, host of The Ryan Tubridy Show on RTÉ Radio 1 in Ireland, spoke during Tuesday's live program about the funeral for Ashling Murphy that was set to take place later that day in Co Offaly.
He said: “We mentioned on the Late Late Show, of course, Ashling, and we mentioned Sinéad O’Connor and Donal Lunny’s son Shane who had also passed away. The musicians wanted to mark that desperate story also."
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Tubridy said on Tuesday: “I had occasion to speak to Sinéad at some length on Saturday. She’s doing as well as can be possible under the circumstance, but she very thoughtfully sent a song to us here last night or in the early hours of this morning.
“She wrote about her son about two and a half years ago. She said, 'You can play it if you like.'
"It’s nice, it’s a rough edit, it’s called Horse on the Highway.
“I listened to it this morning, it's actually a very beautiful song.
“Sinéad is grieving, the Murphy family are grieving today, and the country is grieving today.
"I just felt that this song, at Sinéad's suggestion, would be quite a song to play as we say goodbye to you today on this day of days because it’s a song about grief, it's a song about a child gone too soon."
Back in 2020, O'Connor said that the song is "about a mother trying to find her child on the streets."
She added at the time: "I want to stress, this isn’t autobiographical. And not specific to Ireland.
"I hope it calls some kids back home to their mamas.
"From the point of view of an exhausted mum who can't find her teenager. It's a letter to runaway wild horse teenagers.”
Here are the lyrics for Sinéad O'Connor's "Horse on the Highway:"
"Last night I dreamed I was on fire
The flames around felt oh so real to me
And as they rose up higher and higher
I heard your sweet voice calling out for me
Like water, like water
Just like, just like, just like a peaceful sea
Like water, like water
That’s what your shining presence is to me.
“You're too young to be addicted as you are.Running ‘round like you’ve no mother or father
And I'm old and I can't chase you anymore
'Round roads or under bridges or over walls
"Come home, come home, young one,Put down the streets and come,
For they do not belong to you.
"And paradise so sweetLies at your mother's feet
And I am not complete without you.
“Tonight, I'll dream we are in heavenSitting underneath an apple tree
Not being at sixes or at sevens
Just being with you, being with me.
“Like water, like waterJust like, just like, just like a peaceful sea
Like water, like water
That’s what your shining presence is to me.
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