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 fair sea
I walked it's pleasant streets, no view in mind, no one to
Content to wander where my feet led me

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

As the sun began to fall, and the day to die
I heard the wild geese call, from a dark and empty sky
For long I stood there, in that busy thoroughfare
While the past sharp 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 ago, and who now cares or knows
why Bobby Sands chose his lonely

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

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

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

Historical
Bobby Sands, MP, was imprisoned in under criminal charges
from his alleged involvement in IRA terrorist activities
in Ulster (Northern Ireland). Mr. Sands, along with
20 alleged IRA members in prison awaiting trial, went
on a hunger strike to protest 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 of the prisoners, of which Mr. Sands was the first to succumb.

*Auckland, New