Sunday Bloody Sunday

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Sunday Bloody Sunday

• U2

By Conner Mehler
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• YeahUmmm, hmmm
• I can't believe the news todayOh, I can't close
  my eyes and make it go awayHow long, how long
  must we sing this song?How long, how longCause
  tonightWe can be as one tonight

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• Broken bottles under children's feetBodies
  strewn across the dead end streetBut I won't
  heed the battle callIt puts my back upPuts my
  back up against the wall
• Sunday, bloody SundaySunday, bloody
  SundaySunday, bloody SundaySunday, bloody Sunday

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• And the battle's just begunThere's many lost,
  but tell me who has wonThe trench is dug within
  our heartsAnd mothers, children, brothers,
  sisters torn apart
• Sunday, bloody SundaySunday, bloody Sunday

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• How long, how long must we sing this song?How
  long, how longCause tonightWe can be as
  oneTonight, tonight
• Sunday, bloody SundaySunday, bloody Sunday

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• Wipe the tears from your eyesWipe your tears
  awayOh, wipe your tears awayOh, wipe your tears
  awaySunday, bloody SundayOh, wipe your
  bloodshot eyesSunday, bloody Sunday
• Sunday, bloody Sunday Sunday, bloody
  SundaySunday, bloody Sunday Sunday, bloody
  Sunday

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• And it's true we are immuneWhen fact is fiction
  and TV realityAnd today the millions cryWe eat
  and drink while tomorrow they die
• (Sunday, bloody Sunday)

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• The real battle just begunTo claim the victory
  Jesus wonOn
• Sunday bloody Sunday, yeah

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U2 Biography

• U2 started in Dublin, Ireland by Larry Mullen Jr.
  in 1976. U2 s original name was feedback until
  Clayton acting as manager asked some people in
  the music industry for Ideas on how to get the
  band rolling Steven Rapid of the Radiators
  suggested U2. In Ireland U2 Peaked the charts
  with their single Another Day but, they were
  still struggling to gain a foothold in both the
  USA and Great Britain. In November of 1983 U2
  released their live album under a blood red
  sky. U2 has continued through out the 80s and
  90s releasing hit albums and sell-out concerts.
  In 2005 U2 won three Grammy Awards all for their
  hit song Vertigo and were inducted into the US
  Rock n Roll Hall of Fame.

Band members
U2 official web site
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Citations

• "U2." Baker's Biographical Dictionary of
  Musicians, Centennial Edition. Nicolas
  Slonimsky, Editor Emeritus. Schirmer, 2001.
  Reproduced in Biography Resource Center.
  Farmington Hills, Mich. Gale, 2010.
  http//galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC
• "Ireland Information Guide." Bloody Sunday
  (Northern Ireland 1972). N.p., 13 May 2010. Web.
  14 May 2010. lthttp//www.irelandinformationgu
  ide.com/Bloody_Sunday_(Northern_Ireland_1972)gt.
  Photo of U2. N.d. Durham Magazine - The DM Blog.
  Durham Magazine, n.d. Web. 28 May 2010.
  lthttp//www.durhammag.com/blog/2009/7/21/nccu-to-h
  ost-u2-conference.htmlgt. "U2 song meanings -
  Sunday Bloody Sunday." lyricinterpretations.
  N.p., n.d. Web. 28 May 2010.
  lthttp//www.lyricinterpretations.com/u2/Sunday-Blo
  ody-Sundaygt.

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Rhyming

• This song does not follow a consistent rhyme
  scheme but many lines do rhyme and in all case
  it is one after the other with no lines in between

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repetition

• Bono repeats several lines for emphasis

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alliteration

• Is the repetition of the first letter or sound in
  consecutive words like broken bottles

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But I won't heed the battle call

• U2 wont take sides. They are only calling to end
  the bloodshed.

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• While singing this Bono would wave a white flag
  as a call for peace

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History

• There are to bloody Sundays in Irish history,
  one in 1920 and one in 1972. this song is mostly
  about the latter.

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1972

• In the bloody Sunday 1972 Jan. 30, 1972 thirteen
  people were shot by British paratroopers firing
  indiscriminately into a crowd marching in
  protest. The British attacked to try and take
  out IRA agents in Dublin.

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1920

• The first bloody Sunday in Irish history was an
  assassination of multiple British intelligence
  officers in Dublin, Ireland (still part of Great
  Britian). The British intelligence was known as
  the Cario Gang. Thirteen were killed and another
  six were wounded. That afternoon at a football
  game police fired into an open crowd in
  retaliation. 14 civilians were killed.
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IRA

• The IRA was formed in 1919 to combat the British
  in Ireland. They used raids and ambushes to
  force the British government to negotiate. The
  subsequent treaty basically left most of Ireland
  to the Irish but left northern Ireland as part of
  the British empire. The IRA was split between
  those who supported the treaty (the official IRA)
  and those who wanted all of Ireland
  (irregulars). The civil war 1922-1923 resulted
  in the defeat of the irregulars. However neither
  side disbanded completely

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• Bono is comparing Bloody Sunday to Easter Sunday,
  which is supposed to be a peaceful holiday for
  both sides (Catholic and protestant).

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• Bono is tired of going back to old events. quit
  reopening old wounds

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Band Members

• Bono- lead singer Paul Hewson Dublin, Ireland
  May 10, 1960 Bono was originally Bono Vox which
  means good voice in latin
• Adam Clayton- Base guitar Dublin, Ireland March
  13, 1960
• The Edge- David Evans guitar Wales Aug. 8, 1961
• Larry Mullen- drums and percussion Dublin,
  Ireland Oct. 31, 1961

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