This is an intense, and serious song by one of my favorite bands, U2.
Here are the lyrics (with my comments in the highlighted light pink), and a response at the end.
Yes
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
When he says "How long must we sing this song?" He is referring to this social injustice, that has happened more than once. "This song", refers to the fight between Northern Ireland, and England; And how they are constantly fighting over religion.
"Cause tonight we can be as one." I hear this line, and think that he means that even though religion can unify us, it can also divide us. This song is about the argument over religion, and how it can progress into something as big as 14 people dying.
Broken bottles under children's feetBodies strewn across the dead end streets
But I won't heed the battle call
It puts my back up, puts my back up against the wall
"Heed the battle call", I believe means 'Participate in'. Thus, he will not participate in the battle."Broken bottles under children's feet", putsa terrible, but easy to envision, image in your mind.
And mothers, children, brothers, sisters torn apart
Just like war, incidents like this also tear us apart. When someone hears about a murder, or any situation where someone ends up with no pulse, that person loses a little more trust. "Mothers, children, brothers,and sisters torn apart", says to me that everyone is torn apart during situations like this.
Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday "Sunday bloody Sunday", makes agoraphobia seem completely logical. Many people must have been terrified.
How long, how long must we sing this song?
How long? How long?
'Cause tonight we can be as one
Tonight, tonight By using repetition "Tonight, tonight", it shows that U2 is trying to make their point clear. I believe that their point was "Bloody Sunday", was a disgrace to the nation, and can be learned from, in order to not be repeated.
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
Oh, wipe your blood shot eyes
"Oh wipe your blood shoot eyes", in the song "Blood" is put emphasis on. I think the "blood", in "Blood shot eyes", refers to the blood lost in this incident.
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
Eating and drinking are things we do absentmindedly. So, everything may be going normally, and then BANG, "Tomorrow they die." By this, he may also mean that the innocent people that died, may have enjoyed a dinner with their family later that night, but now are unable to.
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Sunday Bloody Sunday
This line speaks for itself.
Short Response
Most was said in my commentary. But, adding on, this song is a clear response to a specific social issue. There are so many things that were wrong with 'Bloody Sunday', I would not know where to begin. But, the thing which strikes me as most unfair is the fact that "Bloody Sunday", was started over religion.
Christianity was originally to bring people together, and look at the result. Now people get together to disagree, and quarrel.
enough said.
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
When he says "How long must we sing this song?" He is referring to this social injustice, that has happened more than once. "This song", refers to the fight between Northern Ireland, and England; And how they are constantly fighting over religion.
"Cause tonight we can be as one." I hear this line, and think that he means that even though religion can unify us, it can also divide us. This song is about the argument over religion, and how it can progress into something as big as 14 people dying.
Broken bottles under children's feetBodies strewn across the dead end streets
But I won't heed the battle call
It puts my back up, puts my back up against the wall
"Heed the battle call", I believe means 'Participate in'. Thus, he will not participate in the battle."Broken bottles under children's feet", putsa terrible, but easy to envision, image in your mind.
And mothers, children, brothers, sisters torn apart
Just like war, incidents like this also tear us apart. When someone hears about a murder, or any situation where someone ends up with no pulse, that person loses a little more trust. "Mothers, children, brothers,and sisters torn apart", says to me that everyone is torn apart during situations like this.
Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday "Sunday bloody Sunday", makes agoraphobia seem completely logical. Many people must have been terrified.
How long, how long must we sing this song?
How long? How long?
'Cause tonight we can be as one
Tonight, tonight By using repetition "Tonight, tonight", it shows that U2 is trying to make their point clear. I believe that their point was "Bloody Sunday", was a disgrace to the nation, and can be learned from, in order to not be repeated.
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
Oh, wipe your blood shot eyes
"Oh wipe your blood shoot eyes", in the song "Blood" is put emphasis on. I think the "blood", in "Blood shot eyes", refers to the blood lost in this incident.
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
Eating and drinking are things we do absentmindedly. So, everything may be going normally, and then BANG, "Tomorrow they die." By this, he may also mean that the innocent people that died, may have enjoyed a dinner with their family later that night, but now are unable to.
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Sunday Bloody Sunday
This line speaks for itself.
Short Response
Most was said in my commentary. But, adding on, this song is a clear response to a specific social issue. There are so many things that were wrong with 'Bloody Sunday', I would not know where to begin. But, the thing which strikes me as most unfair is the fact that "Bloody Sunday", was started over religion.
Christianity was originally to bring people together, and look at the result. Now people get together to disagree, and quarrel.
enough said.
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