| Christy Moore – Voyage Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Well its all about the Birminham 6, convicted of bombings in the UK in 1974, 21 people were murdered. The 6 spent 16 years in prison, they were innocent, finally released in 1991. There were campaigns from the very start on the innocence of the 6, well of course we are led to believe the law is always right, well it is not, this is Christy's allude to their campaign for release |
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| Gordon Lightfoot – If You Could Read My Mind Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Johnny Cash covers this on his new album out tomorrow (29/6/06 at least where I'm from). It was recorded by Johnny 2 weeks before his death in Sept'03. Listen to this version and think you will understand what a fantastic singer this guy was and thats from a person who was far too young to have grown up with JC. It probably just pips "Hurt" as the most moving song for me ever | |
| U2 – North and South of the River Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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This is an interesting song, mainly sung by Christy Moore, with Bono very much in the background. The passion that Christy display's signing this is amazing. Christy held very Republican views in the 70's and 80's i.e. there was justification to the troubles, he has since very much changed his ideas and though still holding nobel Republican ideology, the idea of violence as part of that ideology does not form part of it anymore. The particular verse - "Can we stop playing this old tattoo Darling I don't have the answer I wanna meet you where you are I don't need ya to surrender" Could some up Christy's own changed views. Yes its about the divide in Ireland, don't believe its specific to any particular town/city, it could represent any person or place |
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| U2 – The Hands That Built America Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Update for Karatekid2007, holy in Irish is "Naomh", it can change slightly depending in what context you use it, Holy Spirit would be 'Spiorad Naomh', The Holy Father would be 'an tAthair Naofa' Not sure what Halle means, it could be latin or indeed Hebrew for Holy....... you just never know with Bono |
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| Damien Rice – Unplayed Piano (with Lisa Hannigan) Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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FREE Aung San Suu Kyi NOW Burma is ruled by one of the most brutal military dictatorships in the world; a dictatorship charged by the United Nations with a “crime against humanity” for its systematic abuses of human rights, and condemned internationally for refusing to transfer power to the legally elected Government of the country – the party led by Aung San Suu Kyi. The military dictatorship in Burma have nothing to fear but words, no violence, no oppression, just peace. They are the haters of peace and democracy FREE ALL Prisioners of Conscience NOW |
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| The Dream Academy – Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| This song was in Ferris Bueller's Day off (an instrumental version), its when their in the Art gallery just staring at the images, great great tune and the original by The Smiths. Brings back memories of the 80's when I was a lot younger and John Hughes movies seemed the best ever | |
| U2 – Sunday Bloody Sunday Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Fuck_L._Ron_Hubbard of course you can take whatever you want from this song but factually you are totally incorrect. Bono is 45 so if he was to write this song on Bloody Sunday (v.2) he would have been 12, not so. What your really referring to was the outrage that was the Enniskillen bomb in 1987 leaving 11 people dead at a Rememberance Service for those who died in WW1. It occurs on the Sunday nearest to November 11 - Armistice Day in 1918 when hostilities in the First World War ended at 11 a.m. Bono stated at this concert you refer to "leaving people dead and dying under the rubble of a revolution that most of the people in my country don't want.". Eleven Protestants were killed in the bombing, and 63 were injured. Those murdered in the bombing were: Bertha Armstrong Edward Armstrong Wesley Armstrong Samuel Gault Jessie Johnson Kitchener Johnson John Megaw Angus Mullen William Mullen Georgina Quinton Marie Wilson Marie Wilson father Gordon gave an emotional television interview to the BBC the same evening in which he described his last conversation with his daughter as they both lay buried in rubble and pleaded with loyalists not to take revenge for her killing. He became a member of the Irish senate in 1993 on the nomination of the then Taoiseach, Albert Reynolds. On many occasions he met with members of Sinn Fein and representatives of both the Provisional IRA and loyalist paramilitaries in an attempt to persuade these groups to abandon violence. If force Republicanism showed the same level of courage and forgiveness as Gordon Wilson, maybe many fewer people would have been murdered. It took Gerry Adams, leader of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the IRA 10 years to formally apologise for the atrocity. It took Gordon Wilson a few hours..... |
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| U2 – The Hands That Built America Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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This song is all about the Irish who emigrated to America in the 19th and 20th century. Who grafted hard in a far off land from home, who didn’t have any money in their pockets leaving, didn’t want to leave but were forced to “from diggin in our pockets for a reason not to say goodbye”. Bono admitted that he lifted the song title from a song by one of Ireland’s seminal bands of the 70’s – Horslips, “The Man who Built America” from 1978, and changed the word man to hands. |
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| U2 – Sunday Bloody Sunday Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Although this song is strictly not specific to the events in Derry on 30th January 1972 which became known as Bloody Sunday, I thought it very appropriate that on their Dublin hometown shows played at Croke Park (24,25 & 27th June 2005) they played Sunday, Bloody, Sunday as it was in this very stadium on the afternoon of 21st November 1920 was Irelands first so called Bloody Sunday. Where the killing by British forces of fourteen civilians—including a Gaelic footballer, Michael Hogan, who was playing for Tipperary that day—at Croke Park. This followed a day of tit-for-tat killings. In all, 30 people died within fifteen hours on that fateful day in Dublin. Bloody Sunday marked an emotional turning-point in the War of Independence and has gone down as a central event in nationalist history. Bono's call within the song is for the end of pointless sectarianism. At Croke Park on the 27th June 2005 Bono said "are there any Irish flags, now is the time when you should be proud to fly the tricolour", and he was right, force republicanism has claimed ownership of the tricolour for too long, their time is up. |
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| U2 – Miracle Drug Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| During there home town Vertigo gig on Friday 24th June 2005 Bono dedicated this song to guests that were at the gig from Crumlin Childrens Hospital. Bono added, ‘This song is for the doctors and nurses, especially the nurses' | |
| U2 – Miracle Drug Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| During there home town Vertigo gig on Friday 24th June 2005 Bono dedicated this song to guests that were at the gig from Crumlin Childrens Hospital. Bono added, ‘This song is for the doctors and nurses, especially the nurses' | |
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