When he arrived, they were in the middle of recording a song called “Troy,” a hauntingly mesmerizing account of love and betrayal, set in a lush bed of symphonic strings. O’Connor’s voice shifts from sorrow to fury and back again, referencing the slaying of dragons, the rising of the phoenix from the flame.
One of the lines in the refrain, “There is no other Troy for you to burn,” was drawn from W. B. Yeats’s poem “No Second Troy.” It was published in 1916 for his beloved Maud Gonne, a revolutionary for Irish independence and women’s rights, who had shattered him by spurning his affection.
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