LONDON – JUNE 16: (UK TABLOID NEWSPAPERS OUT) U2’s The Edge and Sinead O’Connor attend The MOJO Honours List 2005, the music magazine’s second annual awards, at Porchester Hall on June 16, 2005 in London, England. The Honours List of 10 awards recognizes “career-long contributions to popular music”. (Photo by Gareth Davies/Getty Images)

U2 has issued a statement regarding the death of Sinead O’Connor.

The band posted the lyrics from her 1986 song, “Heroine,” a song she recorded with the Edge for the soundtrack of Captive.

In part, it read… “Touch these eyes with a broken smile, Touch my mouth with your furrowed brow, Lift my heart, heal my shame, Lead me into rest again… Rest in Peace, Sinead.”

Over the years, U2 and O’Connor shared a mutual admiration for one another. The Irish acts joined forces a handful of times, including two songs on her 2005 Collaborations album.

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