The Cranberries: The Icicle Melts Meaning
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The Icicle Melts Lyrics
When, when will the icicle melt,
The icicle, icicle?
And when, when will the picture show end,
The picture show, picture show?
I should not have read the paper today,
'Cause a child, child, child, child he was taken away.
There's a...
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They were caught. Sent somewhere. Later in adult released they should still be behind bars. However they have new names now.
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This song is about the James Bulger kidnapping and then later on found dead and the murderer was never found. I'm not sure if he was caught by now but when the song was written he wasn't captured yet. As I'm sure there r more meanings to the song besides just James Bulger he is the meaning the song was written as Dolores explains a few times before she performs the song on stage!!!
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The first thing that came to me when listening to this song over 20 years later,was in fact that she was referring to James bulgers murder." I should not have read the paper today cos the child child child child he was taken away" it's clear in my mind this is wat she was talking about...still so sad...makes me cry still after all these years
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The first thing that came to me when listening to this song over 20 years later,was in fact that she was referring to James bulgers murder." I should not have read the paper today cos the child child child child he was taken away" it's clear in my mind this is wat she was talking about...still so sad...makes me cry still after all these years
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This song is about the james bulger case. It is so sad sometimes makes me cry.
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