Transcript SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY U2 By: Conner Mehler

U2
SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY
By: Conner Mehler
Yeah
Ummm, hmmm
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 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
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
Sunday, bloody Sunday
Wipe the tears from your eyes
Wipe your tears away
Oh, wipe your tears away
Oh, wipe your tears away
Sunday, bloody Sunday
Oh, wipe your bloodshot eyes
Sunday, bloody Sunday
Sunday, bloody Sunday
Sunday, bloody Sunday
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
(Sunday, bloody Sunday)
The real battle just begun
To claim the victory Jesus won
On
Sunday bloody Sunday, yeah
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.
U2 official web site
Band members
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.
<http://www.irelandinformationguide.com/Bloody_Sunday_(Northe
rn_Ireland_1972)>. Photo of U2. N.d. Durham Magazine -The DM
Blog. Durham Magazine, n.d. Web. 28 May 2010.
<http://www.durhammag.com/blog/2009/7/21/nccu-to-host-u2conference.html>. "U2 song meanings - Sunday Bloody Sunday."
lyricinterpretations. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 May 2010.
<http://www.lyricinterpretations.com/u2/Sunday-Bloody-Sunday>.
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
To learn about other
literary devices click
here
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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 Sunday’s 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. To learn more click here
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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.
 To learn more click here
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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 To learn more click here
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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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