U2 - Sunday bloody Sunday

Domingo sangriento, así dice el título de esta canción de U2 publicada en 1983 en su álbum War.

Sunday Bloody Sunday es una canción que habla de los sucesos acaecidos en Derry (Irlanda del Norte) el 30 de enero de 1972, en los que tropas inglesas entraron en la ciudad y causaron 14 muertos y varios heridos. Ése día fue bautizado por la historia como Domingo Sangriento.

Lo cierto es que conocí la canción cuando vi la película de 2002 sobre estos sucesos Bloody Sunday. Muy recomendable.

Os dejo ya con la canción:



Y la letra:


I can't believe the news today
I can't close my eyes and make it go away.
How long, how long must we sing this song?
How long, how long?
'Cos 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.
Sunday, bloody Sunday.
Oh, let's go.

And the battle's just begun
There's many lost, but tell me who has won?
The trenches 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?
'Cos tonight
We can be as one, tonight.
Sunday, bloody Sunday.
Sunday, bloody Sunday.

Wipe the tears from your eyes
Wipe your tears away.
I'll wipe your tears away.
I'll wipe your tears away.
I'll wipe your bloodshot eyes.
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...

Sunday, bloody Sunday
Sunday, bloody Sunday..