The Cranberries ; Zombie.

Background information

Origin
Ballybricken, Limerick, Ireland

Genres
Alternative rock, post-punk, pop rock, celtic rock

Years active
1989–2003
2009–present

Labels
Interscope, Island, Universal Music Group

Website www.cranberries.com Members
Dolores O'Riordan (been born on September 6th, 1971 to Ballybricken): singing, guitars, keyboards Noel Hogan (been born on December 25th, 1971 to Moyross): guitars
Michael Hogan(been born on April 29th, 1973 to Moyross): bass
Fergal Lawler been born on March 4th, 1971 to Parteen): battery

Past members
Niall Quinn

Dolores O' Riordan is the author of the texts of the group. These make his political shooting show through (as in Zombie or Bosnia who oppose to the civil wars), patriotic (God be with you who sings Ireland) or engaged (Icicle Melt is a hymn against the abortion). Devout Catholic, Dolores O' Riordan was exposed to numerous criticisms because of her traditionalist positions. In the Rock and folk newspaper, she declared to the journalist Franck Roy to be favorable to the death penalty (" eye for eye, a tooth for a tooth ") and that Alabama was a model. In the newspaper Inrockuptibles, she declared to Jean-Daniel Beauvallet to understand the mutilation of the thieves and to be in certain cases in favour of the death penalty

This song is a call to the peace. The tune shows it:

What's in your head, Zombie...
Qu'y a-t-il dans votre tête ? Mort-vivant..

The persons aimed here being the arms manufacturers, but also those who use(get) it:.
They are fighting
Ils se battent
With their tanks, and their bombs
Avec leurs tanks, et leurs bombes
And their bombs, and their guns
Et leurs bombes, et leurs fusils

But the word zombie can also apply to the persons who lived as zombies, in the fear (attacks,bombs), and who did not thus live any more as "normal" people.

After a reminder of the acts of 1916, year of the beginning of the revolution which