I can't believe the news today

Sunday Bloody Sunday

Here is a signature song from U2's early days, and the video from 1983 to prove it. The band members were in their early 20s when this song was recorded. Typical of U2, it's not a love song, rather a political anthem that concludes with a religious twist, and yet it became their first international hit.

The song refers to an infamous incident during the days of Northern Irish-British conflict, when 13 Roman Catholic demonstrators were shot and killed by British troops on January 30, 1972. An investigation that began in 1998 recently concluded with the Saville report and Prime Minister David Cameron's formal apology before Parliament on June 15, 2010. 






Lyrics
 
I can't believe the news today
I can't close my eyes and make it go away

How long, how long must we sing this song
How long, how long
Tonight we can be as one, tonight

Broken bottles under children's feet
Bodies strewn across a 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

And the battle's just begun
There's many lost, but tell me who has won
Trenches 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
Tonight tonight
Sunday bloody Sunday
Tonight tonight

Wipe the tears from your eyes
Wipe your tears away
I wipe your tears away
I wipe your tears away
Sunday bloody Sunday
Wipe your blood shot eyes

Sunday bloody Sunday
Sunday bloody Sunday

And it's true we are immune
When fact is fiction and T.V. reality
Sunday bloody Sunday
And today the millions cry
Sunday bloody Sunday
We eat and drink while tomorrow they die
Sunday bloody Sunday
The real battle just begun
Sunday bloody Sunday
To claim the victory Jesus won

On a Sunday bloody Sunday
Sunday bloody Sunday