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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It isn’ta bout the corporate church- it’s about Northern Ireland.
All but one of U2’s members are born-again Christians. Most of the
band’s songs relate to the worship of God or contain verse from the
Bible.
sunday f-ing sunday
sunday fucking sunday esentially is what he is saying here.
he is talking about the fall of the corporate church.
broken bottles under believers feet. bodies strewn across a dead end street shows what todays corporate church is doing to the souls of most. it hurts a lot to see people go to church.
read the bible and get away from the corporate church and don’t look back. sad times we are in but it is a beautiful day.
Thanks, Rob. Early U2 is one of my all-time favorite bands. I haven’t heard this song for maybe three years, but can easily hear Bono’s plaintive wail in my head, “How long …???”