Take Off Your Shoes

Album: How About I Be Me (And You Be You)? (2012)
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Songfacts®:

  • In 2006 a Commission of Investigation, headed by Judge Yvonne Murphy, was set up to look into the child abuse scandal in the Catholic archdiocese of Dublin in Ireland. Three years later it published its conclusions that the Dublin Archdiocese's prioritized the avoidance of scandal and the maintenance of its own reputation over the welfare of children and justice for victims. O'Connor details her angry response in this song to the Murphy Report's findings. "I bleed the blood of Jesus over you," she sings.

    O'Connor has consistently advocated on behalf of abused children. Her song "Fire on Babylon" is about the effects of her own child abuse, and O'Connor once famously shocked the Catholic church when she tore up the Pope's photo on Saturday Night Live.

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