Troy (song)

"Troy" is a song written and recorded by Sinéad O'Connor, the first single from her 1987 debut album, The Lion and the Cobra. In 2002, a dance version of the song released as "Troy (The Phoenix from the Flame)" becoming a top 10 hit on several international dance charts including the US.

Background

The song uses the story of the ancient city of Troy as a metaphor. The lyric "Being what you are, there is no other Troy for you to burn" is a reference to the poem "No Second Troy" by William Butler Yeats ("Why, what could she have done being what she is?/Was there another Troy for her to burn?").

Music video

The video featured O'Connor, completely bald and covered with gold and silver body paint, singing to a background of moving images including flames. The video's striking imagery of this angry, bald young woman was for many their first and most striking introduction to O'Connor.

Live performances

O'Connor only sang "Troy" live the year after it was released, after that she refused to perform "Troy" again until 2008 when she performed at the Night of the Proms in Belgium and The Netherlands.

Chart performance

Chart (1988) (Original version)	Peak position
Dutch Top 40^[1]	5
Dutch GfK Singles Chart^[2]	8
Flemish Singles Chart^[3]	12
Chart (2002) (Remix version)	Peak position
Flemish Singles Chart^[4]	35
UK Singles Chart^[5]	48
US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play^[6]	3
US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales^[6]	6

References

↑ "De Nederlandse Top 40, week 3, 1988". Retrieved January 19, 2016.
↑ "dutchcharts.nl". Retrieved January 3, 2009.
↑ "ultratop.be". Retrieved January 3, 2009.
↑ "ultratop.be". Retrieved January 3, 2009.
↑ "charts-surfer.de search results". Retrieved January 3, 2009.
1 2 "Allmusic – Sinéad O'Connor – Billboard singles". Retrieved January 3, 2009 (2009-01-03). Check date values in: |access-date= (help)

External links

Lyrics

Sinéad O'Connor

Discography

Studio albums

Compilations

EPs

Gospel Oak

Singles

"Troy" "Mandinka" "Nothing Compares 2 U" "I Am Stretched on Your Grave" "Silent Night" "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" "Chiquitita" "Troy (Remix)" "My Lagan Love" "I Don't Know How to Love Him"

Featuring	"Blood of Eden" "Don't Give Up" "Haunted" "Tears from the Moon" "Special Cases" "Illegal Attacks" "When a Child Is Born" "Do They Know It's Christmas?"

Other songs

Video albums

W. B. Yeats

Poetry

Volumes	The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems (1889) The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics (1892) In the Seven Woods (1903) Responsibilities and Other Poems (1916) The Wild Swans at Coole (1919) Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921) The Tower (1928) The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933)

Poems	"Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" "Adam's Curse" "Blood and the Moon" "The Circus Animals' Desertion" "Down by the Salley Gardens" "A Drunken Man's Praise of Sobriety" "Easter, 1916" "Ego Dominus Tuus" "In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz" "Lake Isle of Innisfree" "On being asked for a War Poem" "Politics" "A Prayer for My Daughter" "Remorse for Intemperate Speech" "The Rose of Battle" "The Rose-Tree" "Sailing to Byzantium" "September 1913" "Song of the Old Mother" "The Fiddler of Dooney" "The Scholars" "The Second Coming" "The Song of the Happy Shepherd" "The Stolen Child" "Swift's Epitaph" "To the Rose upon the Rood of Time" "The Tower" "Under Ben Bulben "The Wanderings of Oisin" "The Wild Swans at Coole"

Plays

Other works

A Vision (1925)
"The Curse of the Fires and of the Shadows"
Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892–1935 (editor)

People

John Butler Yeats (father)
Susan Pollexfen (mother)
Jack Butler Yeats (brother)
Elizabeth Yeats (sister)
Lily Yeats (sister)
Maud Gonne (lover)
Georgie Hyde-Lees (wife)
Anne Yeats (daughter)
Michael Yeats (son)

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