Thursday, July 07, 2005

How long must we sing this song?

And the horrors continue.

London, I am weeping for you today. I love you, your city, your people, your culture, your history. You are all in my prayers. So far all my close friends there have been accounted for. But there are many people like me whose friends and family will not be accounted for. I pray for you.

We are all Londoners. You have my strength, prayers and support.

There are 33 confirmed dead and 700 injured thus far. It is not known how many dead there are on the bus. That is the immediate human toll. But where will this lead now? So many more questions are raised.

-Is this a failure of the current tactics of the Bush/Blair war on terror?

-How many new innocents will suffer on both sides as a result of this act?

-Would the $300 Billion dollars been better spend anywhere but Iraq?

-Are more attacks on the way?

-Will the U.S. ever give up its dependence on the Mid-East oil that pays for all this and is the catalyst for all this?

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 childrens 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...)
(allright lets go!)

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...

Sunday, bloody sunday (tonight)
Tonight
Sunday, bloody sunday (tonight)
(come get some!)

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)

Sunday, bloody sunday (sunday, bloody sunday)
Sunday, bloody sunday (sunday, bloody sunday)
(here I come!)

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...