Artist: The Cranberries
Released on: Bury The Hatchet (Track #5)
Duration: 3:41

LYRICS

There was a game we used to play
We would hit the town on Friday night
Stay in bed until Sunday
We used to be so free
We were living for the love we had and
Living not for reality

Just my imagination (my imagination)
Just my imagination (my imagination)
Just my imagination
It wa-as

Just my imagination (my imagination)
Just my imagination (my imagination)
Just my imagination
It wa-as

Thar was a time I used to pray
I have always kept my faith in love
It’s the greatest thing from the man abo-o-ove
The game I used to play
I’ve always put my cards upon the table
Never be said that I’d be unstable

Just my imagination (my imagination)
Just my imagination (my imagination)
Just my imagination
It wa-as

Just my imagination (my imagination)
Just my imagination (my imagination)
Just my imagination
It wa-as

There is a game I like to play
I like to hit the town on Friday night
And stay in bed until Sunday
We’ll always be this free
We will be living for the love we have
Living not for reality

It’s not my imagination (my imagination)
It’s not my imagination (my imagination)
It’s not my imagination
It wa-as

Not my imagination (my imagination)
Not my imagination (my imagination)
Not my imagination
It wa-as

Not my
Not my (my imagination)
Not my
Not my
Not my (my imagination)
Not my
Not my
Not my
Not my
Not my (my imagination)
Not my
Not my
Not my (my imagination)
Not my
Not my
Not my

la-a-a la la la la-a-a
la la la la-a-a-a a
la-a-a la la la la-a-a
la la la la-a-a-a a-a

My imagination
My imagination (not my imagination, not my imagination)
My imagination
My imagination (not my imagination, not my imagination)
My imagination
My imagination (not my imagination…)

CREDIT INFORMATION

• Music by Noel Hogan & Dolores O’Riordan
• Lyrics Dolores O’Riordan
• Produced by The Cranberries & Benedict Fenner
• Engineered and Mixed by Mike Plotnikoff at Sarm West and Olympic (London)
• Recorded at metalworks (Toronto), Windmill Lane (Dublin), Le Miravel (France), Sarm West (London)
• Mastered at Gateway Mastering Studios (Portland, Maine)
• Published by PolyGram International Publishing Inc. (ASCAP) 1999

MEANING

• In 2010 in Paris Dolores introduced the song telling, “It’s a song about, ok written, when you’ve got lots of small little ones running around making you get up on Sunday when you wanna stay in bed ‘avec la gueule de bois’ […] you have to go to the park, this one is euh… it all  comes around and they grow up and you get your freedom back” (Paris · 22 March 2010)

NOTES

• “Just My Imagination” is the 3rd single from “Bury The Hatchet” and was released in 1999.
• It was played live for the first time during the “Hard Rock Café” show in 1999.
• The song was used in the TV series “Charmed” (Season 2 Episode 5 “She’s a Man, Baby, a Man” 1999)
• The song was used in a commercial for a bank (Crédit Agricole) in France.