Nothing Compares 2 U Lyrics by Prince- including song video, artist biography, translations and more: It's been seven hours and thirteen days Since you took your love away I go out every night and sleep all day Since you … The stark, emotional video for Nothing Compares 2 U was an MTV staple in 1990. In 1990, Sinéad O'Connor scored a worldwide hit with Nothing Compares 2 U, a song of unspeakable loss and heartbreak. The lyrics speak to a split, with Chinouriri singing, "Never know if you're sorry for what you said / For all I know you adore me / But kept it all inside your head." Sinead O'Connor Lyrics. "Nothing Compares 2 U". (originally by The Family) It's been seven hours and fifteen days. Since you took your love away. I go out every night and sleep all day. Since you took your love away. Since you've been gone I can do whatever I want. I can see whomever I choose. "He summoned me to his house after 'Nothing Compares 2 U'. I made it without him. I'd never met him. He summoned me to his house—and it's foolish to do this to an Irish woman—he said he didn't like me saying bad words in interviews. |So I told him to f**k off. He got quite violent. I had to escape out of his house at five in the morning. Sinéad O'Connor felt like listeners of "Nothing Compares 2 U" could relate the song to different kinds of loss, not just the loss of a romantic partner. Susan Rogers, a recording engineer for Prince, even believed the lyrics were not about an ex-lover at all but about Sandy Scipioni, Prince's housekeeper who quit her job after her father .

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