U2- Sunday Bloody Sunday

Bono, the lead singer, wrote this song to condemning the Irish Republican Army (the IRA), a militant group dedicated to getting British troops out of Northern Ireland.

He changed the lyrics to point out the atrocities of the war without taking sides.

Bono is singing about the senselessness of this still ongoing war.

On the "Bloody Sunday" in 1972. thirteen Catholic demonstrates were killed by English troops which is still a reason for the inexcusability between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland.

Bono chose the lyrics referring to this special event in history but also asking about the sense of this war of religion and determined that there will be no winner in the end. He himself had a small first-hand experience of the North Ireland conflict. His family was met with refusal because of his protestant mother and catholic father.

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 Sunday bloody Sunday

Sunday bloody Sunday Sunday bloody Sunday

And the battle's just begun
there's many lost but tell me who has won
the trench is dug within our hearts
and mothers children brothers sisters torn apart

Sunday bloody Sunday Sunday bloody Sunday

How long how long must we sing this song how long how long
'cause tonight we can be as one tonight tonight

Sunday bloody Sunday Sunday bloody Sunday

Wipe the tears from your eyes wipe your tears away
oh wipe your tears away oh wipe your tears away

Sunday bloody Sunday Sunday bloody Sunday
Sunday bloody Sunday Sunday bloody Sunday
Sunday bloody Sunday Sunday bloody Sunday

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 Sunday bloody Sunday