Apple Of My Eye

Artist: Dolores O’ Riordan
Released on: Are You Listening? (Track #7)
Duration: 4:44

LYRICS

Hu-o-o-o, hu hu hu

As the days go by, the apple of my eye
I’ll always wait for you (for you, for you…)
And as a new day dawns, the darkness moves away
And I will wait for you (for your, for you…)
Hu-u hu-u (hu-a-a-a-a) hu-u

Remember, remember the face of you (of you, of you…)
Surrender, surrender the touch of you (of you, of you…)
Hu-u-u-u, hu-u-u, hu-u-u

Well it’s hard to hold, the room is turning cold
The candle flickers still (’till, ’till, ’till…)
And what I would not do for the love of you
Would you hold onto me (to me, to me, to me…)
Hu-u hu-u (hu-a-a-a-a) hu-u hu-u

Remember, remember the face of you (of you, of you…)
Surrender, surrender the touch of you (of you, of you…)
Hu-u hu-u (hu-a-a-a-a) hu-u hu-u
Hu-u hu-u hu-u hu-u

As the days go by, the apple of my eye
I’ll always wait for you (for you, for you…)
And as a new day dawns, the darkness moves away
And I will wait for you (for your, for you…)

Remember, remember the face of you (of you, of you…)
Surrender, surrender the touch of you (of you, of you…)
I will remember, I will reme hu-u-u-u-u
The face of you
I will remember, I will reme hu-u-u-u-u
The touch of you
I will remember, I will reme hu-u-u-u-u
The face of you
I will remember, I will reme hu-u-u-u-u
The touch of you

CREDIT INFORMATION

  • Music and lyrics by Dolores O’Riordan
  • Produced by Youth , Dolores O’Riordan & Richard Chycki
  • Engineered by Clive Goddard & Richard Chicky
  • Mixed by Richard Chycki
  • Recorded at the Metalworks Studios, Toronto (Canada) · Probably around 2003/2004
  • Published by Sanctuary Records Group Ltd

MEANING

  • The song is about Dolores’ husband, “Apple Of My Eye […] was written about my husband” (Chicago Pride · 2007)
  • In an interview to Sound Spike in 2007, Dolores explained what the song is about and how she wrote it, “I remember I was out on the road without my husband and my kids, and all I had to keep me company at times was a picture of him I would carry along from hotel room to hotel room. And I wrote that one of those nights when I was on my own, sitting in one of those lonely hotel rooms.”
  • She also said in 2007 that “Apple of my eye is a very obvious [song]. It’s about loving someone, it’s very simple. I think it’s such a simple song that it’s very pretty.”

NOTES

  • In an interview to Sound Spike in 2007, Dolores explained that “Apple Of My Life” is the first song of “Are You Listening?” that she wrote: “Apple of My Eye was first. I wrote that while I was still touring with The Cranberries in 2003.”
  • “Apple Of My Eye” was originally referred to as “The Touch” or “Surrender” when Dolores first recorded the track
  • Dolores collaborated with Youth on some songs and “Apple Of My Eye” is one of them, “We ended up using two on the album, Apple and Ordinary Day” (ugo.com · 2007).
  • The song was played live for the first time during the French program “Zacoustics by Zegut” in March 2007.
  • A new version of the song was released on “No Baggage” in 2009.

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