Sunday Bloody Sunday

Titre d'ouverture de l'album War de U2, Sunday Bloody Sunday est sans conteste l'une des chansons les plus "politiques" et les plus représentatives de la carrière du groupe irlandais.

Un morceau qui est empreint de contexte historique également puisqu'il relate les événements survenus le dimanche 30 janvier 1972 à Londonderry, en Irlande du Nord, où 14 manifestants pacifiques (pour les droits civiques) furent abattus par l'armée britannique. Un "dimanche ensanglanté"...

Parole de Sunday Bloody Sunday:

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

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...

Oh, wipe your blood shot eyes

...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

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