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How Long Must We Sing This Song?

Here’s another from Rob:

Finding the Truth in Strange Places

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

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

Oh, wipe your tears away

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

I removed the repetitive title lines. Still sound familiar? Well, you’d never hear it if you were a fundamentalist Baptist, because the song is Sunday Bloody Sunday by U2. Who would have thought that “devil music” could hold so much truth?

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  • He’s not saying ‘bloody’ in the context of the slang word, it’s literally BLOODY. It’s about a massacre that occured in Northern Ireland. Zombie by the Cranberries is about the same thing.

 
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