Luyện nghe bài hát THE SIGN

"The Sign"
-Eric

In the of last year, in a city* far from here
That stands on the shores of the Pacific sea
I walked it's pleasant streets, no in mind, no one to meet
Content to wander where my aimless led me

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

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

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

But to the one who wrote sign,
it seems that 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 it's wild comfort me
But my thoughts would not let me be, and they ran

my future, present, and past,
not for the first time nor the
I them 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
the twilight's deepening dark, to my hotel.

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

*Auckland, New