Dans cette chanson Dolores O'Riordan se remémore ses années d'enfance, où la vie était simple et qui lui manquent maintenant qu'elle est adulte et qu'elle rencontre le succès.
Ode to My Family est une chanson du groupe The Cranberries, sortie en 1994. La chanson est le premier titre de leur deuxième album No Need to Argue.

Understand the things I say
Don't turn away from me
'Cause I spent half my life out there
You wouldn't disagree

D'you see me, d'you see
Do you like me, do you like me standing there
D'you notice, d'you know
Do you see me, do you see me
Does anyone care?

Unhappiness, where's when I was young
And we didn't give a damn
'Cause we were raised
To see life as a fun and take it if we can

My mother, my mother she'd hold me
Did she hold me, when I was out there
My father, my father, he liked me
Oh he liked me, does anyone care?

Understand what I've become
It wasn't my design
And people everywhere think
Something better than I am
But I miss you, I miss
'Cause I liked it, 'cause I liked it
When I was out there
D'you know this, d'you know
You did not find me, you did not find
Does anyone care?
Unhappiness was when I was young
And we didn't give a damn
'Cause we were raised
To see life as fun and take it if we can
My mother, my mother she'd hold me
Did she hold me, when I was out there
My father, my father, he liked me
Oh he liked me, does anyone care?
Does anyone care?
Does anyone care?