While Sinéad O'Connor says she and Peter Gabriel were involved romantically for a short time in the early 1990s, they initially got together to work on music. The pair met when they both performed at an Amnesty International charity concert in Chile in 1990. Over the next few years, O'Connor ended up performing backing vocals on several of his songs, and appeared in the video for one of them, "Blood of Eden." In 1993, O'Connor joined Gabriel for several stops on his "Secret World" tour, including dates in Dublin, Ireland, and London, England. 

It was during this period of collaboration that O'Connor says the two got involved in more than a creative way. She wrote a song about her time with Gabriel after it was over called "Thank You For Hearing Me," a lyrically repetitive track that mostly sings his praises, except for the lines "Thank you for breaking my heart/Thank you for tearing me apart." She wrote in her memoir that, over time, it became her favorite song to sing live and that she was extremely proud of it.

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