Luyện nghe bài hát THE SIGN

"The Sign"
-Eric

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

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

As the sun to fall, and the day began to die
Thought I heard the geese call, from a dark and empty sky
For long minutes I there, in that busy thoroughfare
the past 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 long ago, and who now cares or
why Bobby chose his lonely death?

But to the one who that sign,
it that Bobby's light still shines
The words rang another time,
but the paint was

As the sun to fall, and the day began to die
I heard 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 unchecked 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 and I walked back
through the twilight's dark, to my hotel.

Historical
Bobby Sands, MP, was imprisoned in 1981 under charges
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 strike to inhumane 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 of the prisoners, of which Mr. Sands was the first to succumb.

*Auckland, New