My name is Sands MP in the city of Belfast Divided by religion I grew up I was stabbed and I was upon My run out of its home was only one solution Turn the whole upside down
But the system had other I got for carryin' a gun In a trial a jury I got years from the judge
Screws me regularly But they break me because I had the love of my And a faith in my cause
Still I left a girl outside Married her while on Now I got a son and a in my heart When he doesn't his old man
soul's on ice oh, oh, oh, oh But can't stop the desire To on out oh, oh, oh, oh When heart is on fire
We wouldn't wear their convict So stripped us to the bone in some threadbare blankets And when they jeered us our nakedness As we slopped out the halls We wouldn't out of their prison cells We smeared shit on their walls
in an eight foot concrete box With a Bible, a And the threat of everyday Can I make it through fourteen years? Will my son remember my I don't blame her for the But for Christ's sake let him keep his
Your on ice oh, oh, oh, oh But they can't the desire To on out oh, oh, oh, oh When heart is on fire
Five simple things we ask of Five simple things But Thatcher, not compromise I ask my permission To finally her heart We have come to a decision, hunger
comrades starve behind me I pray to God my will lead to compromise I can no see your face My bones break my skin I'm goin' to Belfast City You can't my spirit in
Your on ice oh, oh, oh, oh But they stop the desire To on out oh, oh, oh, oh When your heart is on
soul's on ice oh, oh, oh, oh But they can't the desire To on out oh, oh, oh, oh When heart is on fire