| My name is Bobby Sands, MP
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| Born in the city of Belfast
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| Divided by religion
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| I grew up fast
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| I was stabbed and I was spat upon
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| My family run out of its home
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| There was only one solution
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| Turn the whole system upside down
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| But the system had other ideas
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| I got lifted for carryin' a gun
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| In a trial without a jury
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| I got fourteen years from the judge
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| Screws beat me regularly
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| But they couldn’t break me because
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| I had the love of my comrades
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| And a burnin' faith in my Cause
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| Still I left a girl outside pregnant
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| Married her while on remand
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| Now I got a son and a pain in my heart
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| When he doesn’t recognize his old man
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| Your soul’s on ice oh oh oh oh
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| But they can’t stop the desire
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| To break on out oh oh oh oh
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| When your heart is on fire
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| We wouldn’t wear their convict clothes
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| So they stripped us to the bone
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| Threw in some threadbare blankets…
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| And when they jeered us about our nakedness
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| As we slopped out down the halls
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| We wouldn’t come out of their prison cells
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| We smeared shit on their prison walls
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| Stuck in an eight foot concrete box
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| With a bible, a mattress
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| And the threat of violence every day…
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| Can I make it through these fourteen years
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| Will my son remember my face
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| I don’t blame her for the separation
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| But for Christ’s sake let him keep his name
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| Your soul’s on ice oh oh oh oh
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| But they can’t stop the desire
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| To break on out oh oh oh oh
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| When your heart is on fire
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| Five simple things we ask of them
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| Five simple things denied
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| But Thatcher will not compromise…
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| I ask my Mother’s permission
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| To finally break her heart
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| We have come to a decision
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| …Hunger Strike
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| Three comrades starve behind me
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| I pray to God that my
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| Death will lead to compromise…
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| I can no longer see your face
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| My bones break through my skin
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| I’m goin' back to Belfast City
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| You can’t cage my spirit in
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| Your soul’s on ice
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| But they can’t stop the desire
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| To break on out
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| When your heart is on fire |