Luyện nghe bài hát THE SIGN

"The Sign"
-Eric

In the summer of last year, in a far from here
stands on the shores of the fair Pacific sea
I it's pleasant streets, no view in mind, no one to meet
to wander where my aimless feet led me

A few streets from my hotel, I passed an old stone
where three words had been scrawled by an unknown
When I read them I stopped dead, in I shook my head
For the on that wall read, "Free Bobby Sands"

As the sun began to fall, and the day to die
Thought I heard the wild geese call, from a and empty sky
For long minutes I stood there, in that busy
While the rose sharp and clear in my mind's eye

I saw it all again, the passion, hate, and
the indifference and the shame as a man died
But it was all so ago, and who now cares or knows
why Bobby Sands chose his death?

But to the one who wrote sign,
it seems Bobby's light still shines
The rang from another time,
but the was fresh

As the sun began to fall, and the day to die
Thought I the wild geese call, from a dark and empty sky
So I went down to the sea, to let wild song comfort me
But my thoughts not let me be, and unchecked they ran

my future, present, and past,
not for the first time nor the
I heard ask, "Could you be the kind of man
who gladly sacrifice everything, even life
and put no on a cause, or an ideal?"
No answer echoed in my heart, so I turned and I back
through the deepening dark, to my hotel.

Historical
Bobby Sands, MP, was imprisoned in 1981 criminal charges
stemming his alleged involvement in IRA terrorist activities
in Ulster Province (Northern Ireland). Mr. Sands, along
20 other alleged IRA members in prison awaiting trial,
on a hunger strike to protest conditions in the prison, and to
the IRA members reclassified as "political prisoners".
The hunger strike more than 60 days, resulting in the deaths
of many of the prisoners, of which Mr. was the first to succumb.

*Auckland, New