<P> It won the "Best Song" award at the 1995 MTV Europe Music Awards . </P> <P> In 2017, the song was released as an acoustic, stripped down version on the band's Something Else album . </P> <P> The lyrics and chords of "Zombie" were written by Dolores O'Riordan during the Cranberries' English Tour in 1993 . The song was written in response to the death of Johnathan Ball and Tim Parry, who had been killed in the IRA bombing in Warrington earlier that year . </P> <P> The lyrics also reference the Irish Easter Rising with the lines: It's the same old theme / Since nineteen - sixteen / In your head, in your head, they're still fightin' / With their tanks, and their bombs / And their bombs, and their guns / In your head, in your head, they are dyin' . </P>

Meaning of the song zombie by bad wolves