Ode To My Family -- Cranberries

Understand the things I say, don't turn away from me, 
'Cause I've spent half my life out there, you wouldn't disagree. 
Do you see me Do you see Do you like me Do you like me standing there? Do you notice Do 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, 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 ev'rywhere think, something better than I am. 
But I miss you, I miss, 'cause I liked it, 'Cause 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 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, she hold me, when I was out there.  My father, my father,  He liked me, oh, he liked me. 
Does anyone care?...                    (sing365)

Lead singer Dolores O'Riordan claims this is about her decision to become a rock star and the conflicts that decision caused with her parents and their Irish traditions. She sings it in a lullaby-like way as if reminiscing on her family back in Ireland.                           (songfacts)