Punk Politics Vol. 3: Sunday Bloody Sunday by U2
Sunday Bloody Sunday by U2
Lyrics:
I can’t believe the news today
Oh, I can’t close my eyes and make it go away
how long, how long must we sing this song?
How long, how long?
‘cause tonight
We can be as one tonight
Broken Bottles under children’s feet
Bodies strewn across the dead-end street
But I won’t heed the battle call
It puts my back up, puts my back up against the wall
Sunday, bloody Sunday X4
Oh, let’s go
And the battle’s just begun
There’s many lost,
but tell me, who has one?
The trenches dug within our hearts
and the mothers, children, brothers, sisters torn apart
Sunday, bloody Sunday X2
How long, how long must we sing this song?
How long, how long?
cause tonight
we can be as one tonight
tonight, tonight (Sunday, bloody Sunday) X2
Wipe the tears from your eyes
wipe your tears away
I’ll wipe your tears away X2
Sunday, bloody Sunday
I’ll wipe your blood shot eyes
Sunday, bloody Sunday X2
and it’s true we are immune
when fact is fiction and TV reality
and today the millions cry
we eat and drink while tomorrow they die
the real battle just begun
to claim the victory Jesus won
on
Sunday, bloody Sunday X2
One of U2s most popular songs, Sunday, Bloody Sunday is in reference to the Bogside massacre in Derry Northern Ireland On Sunday January 30th, 1972.
Marchers were protesting a law that passed in August 1971 that gave authorities the right to imprison people without trial-internment. Thousands gathered on that Sunday morning to protest but the Stormont government banned such gatherings and deployed (British) troops to police the march. Protesters originally planned to storm the city center but army barricades dettered them towards Free Derry in the bogside. There were a few tussles between a few people and the army and arrests were made, but at around 4:10 the soldiers opened fire Killing 14 people and injuring 14 more. According to BBC.com, 21 soldiers fired their weapon, discharging 108 live rounds between them. In response to the shooting, a crowd of angry protesters burned the British embassy in Dublin to the ground on February 2nd.