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
