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Composition

 * "gentle" 1
 * "voice wavers with restraint" 2
 * "voice quivering softly acoustic" 4
 * "hushed winsomeness" 5
 * "acoustic folk ballad with the soaring chorus, "Stones taught me to fly/Life taught me to die," might be considered the record's centerpiece. Keeping the overwhelming theme of reminiscence, Rice confesses the weight of his heavy heart, "It's not hard to fall when you float like a cannonball."3

Release
October 6 UK https://www.theguardian.com/music/2003/sep/26/popandrock October 20 https://www.nme.com/news/music/damien-rice-15-1382971

Critical reception
Todd Burns of Stylus Magazine regarded "Cannonball" as one of the better songs on O. Alexis Petridis of The Guardian said the track, along with "Amie", "perfectly fix a drowsy, end-of-the-season melancholy." Spin magazine's reviewer wrote that the song "will be there for you after your next breakup—and when you have to sell your Bright Eyes CDs to pay off that NPR pledge you made when you were drunk." musicOMH's Graham Smith called it "melodic" and "pleasant". Amanda Petrusich of Pitchfork was less impressed, writing, "even the leather bound adult-alternative handbook advises against publicly airing sentiments like [...] 'Love/ Taught me to cry.'"

Chart performance
Re-entry:
 * https://www.nme.com/news/music/kasabian-206-1276380
 * https://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/dec/19/x-factor-little-mix-cannonball

Live performances

 * https://www.musicomh.com/reviews/live/damien-rice-glastonbury-festival
 * Limelight invoke
 * https://www.musicomh.com/reviews/live/damien-rice-hammersmith-apollo-london
 * https://www.gigwise.com/reviews/30093/
 * https://www.gigwise.com/photos/101638/damien-rice-live-gig-photos-dublin-ireland
 * https://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/mar/29/popandrock.reviews
 * https://www.nme.com/news/music/the-polyphonic-spree-27-1376795
 * https://www.musicomh.com/reviews/live/latitude-2007-henham-park-suffolk

Cover versions

 * https://diymag.com/2016/02/02/yuck-cannonball-premiere
 * https://ew.com/article/2015/07/28/natalie-imbruglia-male/

Background

 * https://www.gigwise.com/news/69222/
 * https://www.nme.com/news/music/damien-rice-7-1271365
 * https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/gallery/2011/dec/12/the-x-factor-final-pictures


 * "disowned" https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/dec/15/jesy-nelson-abuse-has-cruelly-silenced-one-of-pop-few-unfiltered-voices-little-mix
 * https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/mar/22/simon-cowell-one-direction

Release

 * Digitally 12 Dec https://www.nme.com/news/music/various-artists-3290-1285804

Critical reception

 * https://www.gigwise.com/news/77724/
 * https://www.gigwise.com/photos/73236/
 * https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/dec/15/jesy-nelson-abuse-has-cruelly-silenced-one-of-pop-few-unfiltered-voices-little-mix
 * https://www.theguardian.com/music/shortcuts/2011/dec/12/little-mix-military-wives-christmas-no1
 * http://www.noripcord.com/features/top-40-tracks-2012-part-one
 * https://theartsdesk.com/new-music/cd-little-mix-glory-days
 * https://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4144258-dis-does-pop--the-xmas-bumper-edition

Chart performance

 * https://www.gigwise.com/news/69748/
 * https://www.nme.com/news/music/various-artists-3443-1283447
 * https://www.nme.com/news/music/various-artists-3275-1283745
 * https://www.nme.com/news/music/destinys-child-14-1273850

Rice's response
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-30001619

Live performances
https://www.nme.com/news/music/various-artists-3493-1285962