'With love, Bono & Edge'

30 Jan 202274

'With love, Bono & Edge'

Bono and Edge have shared a performance of 'Sunday Bloody Sunday', complete with a new closing verse.
 
The acoustic performance captured at home in Dublin comes on the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, on 30th January 1972, when thirteen civil rights protesters were shot dead by British Army soldiers in Derry.
 
Scroll down to read the complete lyrics of  'Sunday Bloody Sunday (30th January 2022)'


'Sunday Bloody Sunday (30, January 2022)'

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, 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
Alright, 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, tonight
Tonight, tonight 
Tonight, tonight 
 
Wipe the tears from your eyes
Wipe the tears from your eyes
Sunday, bloody Sunday 
Sunday, bloody Sunday 
Wipe the tears from your eyes 
 
Here at the murder scene 
The virus of fiction, reality TV 
Why so many mothers cry
Religion is the enemy of the Holy Spirit guide 
And the battle just begun 
Where is the victory Jesus won 

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ChicagolovesU2!
Beautiful ✨
Thank you Lads!! So Soul stirring & Moving.
mooner
The Virus tearing us in two
I love the inclusion of the Virus that is tearing the world in two- not just the obvious Virus, but the Virus of the media shattering people into little drops of delusion. We must break through and claim the victory Jesus won.
beuchnus
50's
Just on rime to beginn a new tour for this anniversary of that tragedy for irish people and 30's for One and its album and also for all the 50's years old this year
Martin Thompson
Derrys Bogside
Hey Bono/Edge! If you are planning on coming up to pay your respects... Give me a shout out and I will take you around the Bogside and tell you the stories of that fateful day.
voetdirk
Dirk from Belgium
Gewoon machtig, dat is pas een zanger ! Klaar maken voor een volgende tournee Jongens . Great People ! U2 Thx
PietroGS
Huge!
Thanks so much!!! U2 forever.
electricco
Remember
Great New Lyrics ..... God is a mirror in which each man sees himself
dgveras
Amazing!!
Amazing tribute for the anniversary. Greetings from Brazil!!
boske
Goosebumps
For several reasons goosebumps and a tear.
lassche
Yeah, yeah:
Sunday Bloody Sunday is en was not a rebel song of Innocence. The lyrics are in the line of hope/faith and light. I don’t know what it is to live in an violent area (what a
skalichman
Thank you
All I can do is thank you. I am just grateful for every word, every note. Thank you.
seresere
Great
Beautiful tribute for the anniversary. Thank you so much for the lyrics!
DonnaO\'Neil
Bloody Sunday Anniversary
Beautiful done in remembrance of such a and tragic and sad day in history. Wonderful to see Edge & Bono. Thank you. Looking forward to the day when the band is again traveling. I will follow. God bless. xoxo
fabriciavoxs2
just gratitude to be a fan!
and the saddest memories of that day, in the verses of such legitimate pain transformed into the loveliest song in our hearts
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