Zombie is a protest song by the Irish alternative rock band The Cranberries. Intended and written as a cry of despair against violence and as a tribute in response to the deaths of Johnathan Ball, 3, and Tim Parry, 12, who had died in the IRA bombing of Warrington, Northwest England, when two devices concealed in rubbish bins were detonated. In Dolores's voice you can see that pain, anger and frustration, powerful feelings that make this song so exceptional.

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Dolores wants to transmit through the song a feeling of anger and pain towards the war. In the song she explains the suffering of the family. She also says that she has been repeating the same song to herself since 1916, with this she believed that she meant that we are always repeating wars and they always end up the same, with many wounded, with many dead and with broken families.
"Zombie" refers to the soldiers and executors who, in the end, are also victims of a rotten system and when being on the battlefield, they become decerebrated beings and the desire to kill guided them as zombies.

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I have chosen this song because it is well known, and many people sang it but surely, they did not know its meaning. It is a beautiful, powerful and seeking revenge song and I think we should know its meaning.