This was Sinéad’s debut album and is still just astonishingly great. The spoken word intro in gaelic by Enya before “Never Get Old” is Psalm 91:
For He will give His angels charge over thee, To keep thee in all thy ways.
They shall bear thee upon their hands, Lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Thou shalt tread upon the lion and asp; The young lion and the serpent shalt thou trample under feet.
I never knew it but apparently the North American cover we’re used to was an alternate designed to make the singer appear more demure. Here’s the one used elsewhere:
(Now I feel like i need to get a UK issue with this cover!).
My copy via Beverly Coin & Jewelry in Beverly MA – though I’m sure i had this on CD in the 80s.
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