O'Connor, Sinead - Black Boys On Mopeds Lyrics






Margaret Thatcher on TV
Shocked by the deaths that took place in Beijing
It seems strange that she should be offended
The same orders are given by her
I've said this before now
You said I was childish and you'll say it now
"Remember what I told you
If they hated me they will hate you"
England's not the mythical land of Madame George and roses
It's the home of police who kill black boys on mopeds
And I love my boy and that's why I'm leaving
I don't want him to be aware that there's
Any such thing as grieving
Young mother down at Smithfield
5 am, looking for food for her kids
In her arms she holds three cold babies
And the first word that they learned was "please"
These are dangerous days
To say what you feel is to make your own grave
"Remember what I told you
If you were of the world they would love you"
England's not the mythical land of Madame George and roses
It's the home of police who kill blacks boys on mopeds
And I love my boy and that's why I'm leaving
I don't want him to be aware that there's
Any such thing as grieving





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  1. T.... B....

    how could people dislike

  2. M.... B....

    WONDERFUL SINÉAD WE MISS U

  3. L.... L....

    I dont know but when i listen to sinead sing live gives me a damn goosebumps everytime..brave artist,full of passion..much respect from the philippines..

  4. B.... B....

    Timeless song, unfortunately. If you like this version, you should find Sharon Van Etten's cover of it.

  5. K.... P....

    Sinn Fein...England you'll have to go now.

  6. F.... M....

    This song and Eve of Destruction are two songs badly needed today.

  7. Y.... 4....

    It takes a lot of courage to speak out about the truth , and Sinead has always been know to be good at that, and It takes a lot of courage to wanting to really look for the Truth and accept it, and especially what Sinead lately managed to do in her life for sincerely having wanted to find out who really God is and when she did she accepted the Truth . Sinead was so brave and sincere and she found the True religion of God Islam. May Allah always guide her and may he guide others who are really wanting to know Him and submit to Him. Nothing else awaits those who submit to Him and obey Him but a happy life here and the Eternal life in Paradise.

  8. L.... B....

    But where can we go? We can’t escape grief..

  9. C.... G....

    Haven't forgotten nothing aingeal.......still think of you ...,, pray love

  10. n.... ....

    what an incredible woman ❤️🖤

  11. F.... B....

    💔💔💔😍😭😭😭❤❤❤❤❤❤

  12. E.... C....

    A young woman named Louise Mosrie covered this in 1991.

  13. T.... ....

    Her attitude is so clear and strong. Simply adorable. Big up from Germany! Sinèad for Primeminister!

    T.... ....

    But TAG, prime minister of which country.. Germany, UK or Ireland...possibly all 3v . Grus aus Irland..

    T.... ....

    @Frank Quinn iran ?

  14. a.... ....

    This is the most perfect song for right now, as it was then. The best people of the world abandoned her when she spoke her truth and her truth was the real truth. It makes me sick that the world did this to one of the greatest poet, revolutionary, bad ass, beautiful people I've every slightly known of/Read about. Throw Down Your Arms, by Sinead is hard to find to own, but its on YouTube and it's amazing!!

  15. T.... A....

    Margareth Thatcher on TV
    Shocked by the deaths that took place in Beijing
    It seems strange that she should be offended
    The same orders are given by her
    I've said this before now
    You said I was childish and you'll say it now
    Remember what I told you
    If they hated me they will hate you
    England's not the mythical land of Madame George and roses
    It's the home of police who kill black boys on mopeds
    And I love my boy and that's why I'm leaving
    I don't want him to be aware that there's
    Any such thing as grieving
    Young mother down at Smithfield
    Five a.m., looking for food for her kids
    In her arms she holds three cold babies
    And the first word that they learned was please
    These are dangerous days
    To say what you feel is to dig your own grave
    Remember what I told you
    If you were of the world they would love you
    England's not the mythical land of Madame George and roses
    It's the home of police who kill blacks boys on mopeds
    And I love my boy and that's why I'm leaving
    I don't want him to be aware that there's
    Any such thing as grieving

  16. d.... m....

    Written and sung when Tories were in power

  17. M.... ....

    Wow, I didn't know this was Sinead. Chevelle's cover is great. Give it a listen if you haven't.

  18. c.... ....

    Brave to sing a song like this when you are young. You can take the easy way. Long live Sinead O'Connor.

    c.... ....

    It takes a lot of courage to really look for the Truth and speak out about it, and especially what Sinead lately managed to do in her life for sincerely having wanted to find out who really God is and when she did she accepted the Truth . Sinead was so brave and sincere and she found the True religion of God Islam. May Allah always guide her and may he guide others who are really wanting to know Him and submit to Him. Nothing else awaits those who submit to Him and obey Him but a happy life here and the Eternal life in Paradise.

  19. C.... ....

    One of her best!!
    👍🏾

    C.... ....

    CT , POSSIBLY HER VERY BEST,. GREETINGS FROM IRELAND

  20. T.... H....

    Turns out Mrs. O'Connor was right about a lot of things.
    Thank you for standing up for us.

    T.... H....

    Well Terence she suffered because of her outspoken views over the years. Greetings from Ireland

    T.... H....

    @Frank Quinn these are my
    heroes, without the o'Connors and Strummers we would be in real trouble.

  21. A.... M....

    Astounding words sung by one of the most expressive voices ever. What an awesome talent.

  22. P.... S....

    Shame she's such a troubled woman.. the price some pay for their talents.. I hope you find your redemption young wonderful lady.

    P.... S....

    So true Peter. Ae we now know he views on the catholic church were fully vindicated. She suffered badly for speaking out. Greetings from Ireland

  23. T.... B....

    is She not the greatest 🥇 #JesusIsLord 🤴🏾

  24. S.... M....

    Sharon Van Etten brought me here

  25. b.... ....

    😭😭😭😭😭😭

  26. M.... Q....

    She refused to be sold out and packaged as a stereotyped "female pop-star" by the record company...thus the bald head. Her looks defines her music and the entire album! She stands for what she believes in..and the powers-that-be shunned her for it! Fuck them all! All the more respect i have for her!

  27. F.... S....

    Love it

  28. p.... ....

    Natalie Portman and Sinead long lost sisters?

  29. T.... M....

    Chevelle did a pretty good cover on this.

  30. A.... S....

    She's beautiful ❤

  31. B.... N....

    this song totally resonnates now - speaks truth to power totally. Tom Robinson played it on his sunday show recently : theme being revolution or similar. Mon Sinead! Fresh as ever!

    B.... N....

    Hey Babs was at the Tom Robinson concert ( well gig) in Dublin recently
    Amazing! He still rocks

    B.... N....

    Hey Babs, speaking of Tom Robinson, he played in Dublin recently. Amazing, hope he comes back here soon. Greetings from Ireland

  32. g.... 1....

    Seen Sinead sing this live and I fell in love with it

  33. p.... k....

    This song so sad and true 😢 . She a beautiful honest irish singer 💚❤ her voice gives me goosebumps

  34. I.... F....

    She so great Lady always tell the way it is thank you

    I.... F....

    Yes and suffered for telling the truth

  35. M.... P....

    An Angel singing. Most beautiful voice ever. ❤

  36. A.... D....

    The same orders are given...

  37. D.... Y....

    A beautiful Australian woman called Narelle used to play this song to us in the mid 90s - never forgot you or the tragic London origin of this song! xx

  38. A.... G....

    play this song in 2018, i like this song, remember old days

  39. I.... I....

    Wow! Forgot this one. Used to haunt me.

  40. J.... R....

    1 year ago
    A prescient song from a classic and vicious pop record. It's always love, Ms. O'Connor

  41. a.... f....

    Sinead, this song is so great. I am very sad your life is not going very well right now. You have so much talent, why can't record companies or people help you? Let me know how people can help you. Your mother is gone, get on with your life.

  42. C.... B....

    She’s 24 here. Looking back at my 20s I wasn’t even an ounce as woke as this.

    C.... B....

    Hey Charlie I was at a recent concert and she is now over 50 but still smoking good !

    C.... B....

    Frank Quinn lucky man! Should be on everyone’s bucket list.

  43. s.... ....

    How did Sinead's worldview pan out? Her life is in absolute disarray, yet she'll probably still spew the same leftist nonsense. That said, I like the sound of this song.

  44. H.... G....

    Such incredible vocals from Sinead as always. Moves me to tears as usual. Such beauty and emotion captured in her voice. No one can sing like that these days.

  45. d.... j....

    Amazing song from Sinéad a true artist🙏

  46. q.... ....

    So touching, always touching, only the greatest artists can do this

  47. T.... G....

    Sounds more like the States now.

  48. P.... V....

    her voice / that song gives me goosebumps

  49. G.... O....

    These days, she's just a mental whack job, but back then, she was cute and had a great voice.

  50. M.... ....

    I bought this cassette when I was in the Navy, during The Gulf War. After boot camp and A school. I was in Saudi Arabia and then Spain. In Spain I would listen to it in my shop. It ended up being confiscated due to the song, Black Boys on Mopeds. They sat me down and made me listen to it. "They" are the Commanding Officer on down". I was enlisted and 19. I was in a big office alone with them. I was faced so that I was looking at a huge portrait of President Bush 1.
    It was so strange how mad they were about Margaret Thatcher 's name being mentioned in the song. It was also strange that they were stealing my property, especially music. They wanted me to destroy it in front of them, I couldn't bring myself to follow their orders. We were in that office for so long and I wasn't allowed to go to the head or given any water or chow the entire time and threatened with insubordination. I gave in because I knew they would get their way and it would hurt the other military females. There were not many of us at that time. I asked that this be kept quite and not to go on my service record as being disciplined. They agreed and I destroyed it. I was so mad and confused and hurt. I had a perfect record and was excellent at my job. Having this music would have ended all that? Obviously I have not forgotten or gotten over what I learned that day.

    M.... ....

    MarlenaCarrillo incredible story! Resisting is beautiful! Bless you wherever you are🧡 Sinead would love this story!

    M.... ....

    Today in London there's a huge problem with violent black boys on mopeds. But Thatcher was still a piece of shit who surrounded herself with pedophiles. But scooter gangs are evil, and in London it's all black boys in the scooter gangs who go around robbing and killing lots and lots of people.

  51. t.... ....

    More relevant now than back in 1990! With all the crime in London

  52. D.... R....

    So powerful, I can never get tired of this song, amazing

    D.... R....

    black boys on scooters in London today should be deported.

  53. c.... s....

    superb!

  54. K.... K....

    I am not like you all humans and I have heard her song since the 90s...at least twice a week and it hasn't bored me...I would marry her before she dies....!

  55. e.... ....

    More power to her

  56. K.... K....

    I would've married her in a heart beat...shes a little older or same....

  57. K.... K....

    listen to The Cranberries...same

    K.... K....

    Not agree.. This is another level.

  58. J.... P....

    I love how she references the words of Jesus here.

  59. a.... ....

    Damn that's good

  60. e.... D....

    and what has changed in all these years..??

    Theresa May on T.V. she's shocked by the bombings in Syria.
    feels strange she's offended.. the same orders are give by her. the more changes ,,, the more stays the same...;-(

  61. B.... K....

    OH SINEAD O'CONNOR WE LOVE YOU (PLEASE) GET UP

  62. S.... C....

    Bless her Heart.... Always and Forever... 💗💖💗

  63. F.... S....

    perfect A REAL ARTIST. BE STRONG SINEAD!!

  64. H.... H....

    Wishing her all the best. Hope this voice never falls silent

    H.... H....

    Very well said Heidulf !

  65. s.... b....

    God!!! She so georgious, she'd make woman go leis and gay men go straight she's that beautiful!!!

  66. J.... R....

    on repeat

  67. 0.... ....

    I always liked her. Most people only know her one song but she really had several great songs

  68. W.... W....

    What a song!

  69. R.... ....

    Hard to believe the singing could be as beautiful as that face.

  70. L.... M....

    Man, she REALLY made a powerful and controversial statement with this song!!! I wonder if Margaret Thatcher ever commented anything about it, she must have heard the song or heard of it! I think it's cool that Sinead spoke out and expressed her sadness and condolences in the case of the very controversial death of Trayvon Martin. There is a really brave woman there, not afraid to speak out!!!

  71. S.... s....

    Love this lady so much x

  72. M.... B....

    I have the same feeling in fuckin 2017

  73. O.... V....

    I'm 23 and love this woman

  74. s.... b....

    As this song was playing, i was translating it into Spanish to a friend but my voice cracked and my tears were unstoppable.

  75. Y.... S....

    Mandela Effect confirmed!

  76. L.... J....

    Lov U Stil O_O

  77. #.... ....

    so beautiful and (unfortunately) still relevant today. Solidarity! #resist

  78. R.... D....

    Just too beautiful

  79. K.... M....

    I know every song every word

  80. M.... ....

    It's actually better than the album 🤔

  81. B.... D....

    Even the back of her head is brilliant.

    B.... D....

    That back head image is important uf you are bald.

  82. L.... L....

    Evergreen.

  83. B.... L....

    Luv the spitting on the floor at :48-:49.

    B.... L....

    Brian Lewis I did not see her spit

  84. W.... D....

    Sinead, this is one of your greatest songs,and this performance brings me to tears, I know what the bastards have done to you!! Your last album deserved radio exposure and high recognition, but of course the evil ones tried to hinder you!! You're a phenomenal singer and woman, you are worthy of our Goddess 'Eire Asherah!! Graw ma Kree Slanche'!!!!!xxxxxxx SincerelyLiam

  85. R.... E....

    Prolific shi t I'm crying!!!!

  86. S.... S....

    I think someone is learning something. The rate of deaths while in police custody has dropped significantly. Now if we could learn something from them over here in the U.S.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_deaths_in_custody

    S.... S....

    now that I actually listen to  these lyrics the meaning  and the relevance of what it was saying is more clear now !!   so  keep  quality  music alive!!

  87. P.... ....

    yeah! i grew up in that myth!!...still i keep the good memoriesxxx

  88. F.... M....

    So relevant.

  89. s.... ....

    Hauntingly beautiful. So much so, it's haunted me for years.

  90. P.... L....

    "These are dangerous days. To say what you feel is to dig your own grave" as a UK MP found out yesterday from a far right Neo-Nazi.

  91. B.... i....

    SOUNDS LIKE MAZZYSTAR?

    B.... i....

    Mazzy Star sounds like Sinead!!

  92. D.... D....

    Crying even all these years later- beautiful.

  93. c.... d....

    I would have never heard this beautiful music so many years ago if Prince didn't bless her his with his amazing song. Thank you Prince and and thank you Sinead O'Connor

    c.... d....

    +Hi Cory, I think this is a Sinead original (she wrote it) . The great and one and only Prince gifted her with an even better song = Nothing Compares to You (which made Sinead famous)

    c.... d....

    Yes. This is a Sinéad original. Police brutality against blacks in the UK was much more her issue than Prince's. The inner sleeve of this album has a photo of the grieving parents of Colin Roach standing in the rain. Roach had died under suspicious circumstances while in police custody; the official verdict was suicide. I haven't seen the photo in years, but I still remember every detail of it, and the inscription, "God's place is the world, but the world is not God's place."

    c.... d....

    Cory was referring to NOTHING COMPARES 2 U as the Prince song we were blessed with hearing her cover...and later on we discovered THIS song...Without the first, this one would likely not have been (found/discovered).

  94. B.... ....

    Great song. Glad I heard it through an amazing cover by Chevelle

    B.... ....

    I just learned it through Amanda Palmer's cover. Amazing song.