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
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...
Wipe the tears from your eyes
Wipe your tears away
Wipe your tears away
I wipe your tears away
(sunday, bloody sunday)
I wipe your blood shot eyes
(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 yet begun (sunday, bloody sunday)
To claim the victory jesus won (sunday, bloody sunday)
On...
Sunday bloody sunday
Sunday bloody sunday...
The song is about a march for an end to the troubles in Northern Ireland. The marchers first came under fire from the IRA terrorists and then from the Police and British Army when the terrorists used them to shield themselves. It happened 32 years ago today.
The scariest folk song lyrics are "My Boy Grew up to be just like me" from cats in the cradle by Harry Chapin
IRA is a god damn scumbag organization that is marxist and only puts on a nice face about liberating the poor irishmen from the british when they go
fundraising in Boston next to Ted Kennedy
"If scientists and inventors who develop disease cures and useful technologies don't get lifetime royalties, I'd like to know what fucking rationale you have for some guy getting lifetime royalties for writing an episode of Full House." - Mike Wong
"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
Note of course that the western media blamed the police and the army for the deaths of the unarmed marchers, when The terrorists were the ones who started the killing.
The sickening part being that HBO/Cinemax/Showtime have been showing everything from "Micheal Collins", to "The Devil's Own", to "Blown Away", to "The Night Fighters", to "The Crying Game"
grr.
The scariest folk song lyrics are "My Boy Grew up to be just like me" from cats in the cradle by Harry Chapin
Is the IRA as active today as it once was ? I lived in Galway for over a year and never saw any signs of IRA related acitivies. Heck most Irish people speak english, the language of the British, instead of Gallic. It was surprising to me as I expected that the IRA would be very active in the Republic of Ireland like PLO in Palestine.
I have to tell you something everything I wrote above is a lie.
I was in Ulster (downpatrick? down-something i forget) in '82. we were only in the North for a day to visit some cousin. I do remeber being scared to fucking death. the graffita, the APC's guarding Churches. Supposely i have some distant cousins who were involved in some seedy shit and went to jail. Not only that, people we stayed with in Galway were raided by the Garda for having a basement full of AR-15's and AK-47's not long after we went home. Some craaaaaazy shit.
It's sad, when i was a kid, all i ever heard from my grandparents (who were immigrants) was bitching about those 'godddamn British' or the 'protestant bastards'. Granted Britian was by no means innocent, but still, the IRA were some sick fucks. It's a good thing that later my grandparents never found out i dated a girl who's family was from Ulster and her father (supposedly) was mobbed up with the UVF before they immigrated.
"This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it.” -Tom Clancy
The whole thing is just ridiculous. I mean, come on, if Catholics and Protestants really had to kill each other like that I'd be long dead, as I'm a Protestant living in an area where the population is literally 98% Catholic. Instead I work for the abbey, have the Catholic Church paying my bills (through my paycheck), and generally have a grand old time.
"I fight with love, and I laugh with rage, you gotta live light enough to see the humour and long enough to see some change" - Ani DiFranco, Pick Yer Nose
"Life 's not a song, life isn't bliss, life is just this: it's living." - Spike, Once More with Feeling
I hear that if you're in Ireland and it is made clear that you're American, you're perfectly safe from the IRA, whether or not you're Catholic or Protestant. That true?
Nathan F wrote:I hear that if you're in Ireland and it is made clear that you're American, you're perfectly safe from the IRA, whether or not you're Catholic or Protestant. That true?
nobody every bothered us. But then again so much gun money flowed to both sides from the States, no one wanted to jeopardize that. Also, even in the peak of The Troubles the Republic of Ireland (the south) was quiet. Even the North wasn't the violent wasteland portrayed in the American media. Just don't go during Marching Season.
"This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it.” -Tom Clancy
Nathan F wrote:I hear that if you're in Ireland and it is made clear that you're American, you're perfectly safe from the IRA, whether or not you're Catholic or Protestant. That true?
They raise too much of their funds here. Can't afford to alienate the Irish American population.
Nathan F wrote:I hear that if you're in Ireland and it is made clear that you're American, you're perfectly safe from the IRA, whether or not you're Catholic or Protestant. That true?
They raise too much of their funds here. Can't afford to alienate the Irish American population.
since Sept. 11th , the river of American money dried up. The few Americans that still supported the IRA learned what it felt like to be on the receiving end of a terrorist attack.
"This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it.” -Tom Clancy
Is the IRA as active today as it once was ? I lived in Galway for over a year and never saw any signs of IRA related acitivies. Heck most Irish people speak english, the language of the British, instead of Gallic. It was surprising to me as I expected that the IRA would be very active in the Republic of Ireland like PLO in Palestine.
Apparently (though I'll admit now this is pure hearsay) a surprisingly large portion of the Irish in the Republic consider the IRA just as barmy as the British do. Northern Ireland's supposed to be a real ****hole though, especially the big cities.
