Bobby Sands Mp Lyrics - Singles - Black 47

My name is Bobby Sands MP 

Born in the city of Belfast 

Divided by religion I grew up fast 

I was stabbed and I was spat upon 

My family run out of its home 

There was only one solution 

Turn the whole system upside down 

But the system had other ideas 

I got lifted for carryin' a gun 

In a trial without a jury 

I got fourteen years from the judge 

Screws beat me regularly 

But they couldn't break me because 

I had the love of my comrades 

And a burnin' faith in my cause 

Still I left a girl outside pregnant 

Married her while on remand 

Now I got a son and a pain in my heart 

When he doesn't recognize his old man 

Your soul's on ice oh, oh, oh, oh 

But they can't stop the desire 

To break on out oh, oh, oh, oh 

When your heart is on fire 

We wouldn't wear their convict clothes 

So they stripped us to the bone 

Threw in some threadbare blankets 

And when they jeered us about our nakedness 

As we slopped out down the halls 

We wouldn't come out of their prison cells 

We smeared shit on their prison walls 

Stuck in an eight foot concrete box 

With a Bible, a mattress 

And the threat of violence everyday 

Can I make it through these fourteen years? 

Will my son remember my face? 

I don't blame her for the separation 

But for Christ's sake let him keep his name 

Your soul's on ice oh, oh, oh, oh 

But they can't stop the desire 

To break on out oh, oh, oh, oh 

When your heart is on fire 

Five simple things we ask of them 

Five simple things denied 

But Thatcher, will not compromise 

I ask my Mother's permission 

To finally break her heart 

We have come to a decision, hunger strike 

Three comrades starve behind me 

I pray to God that my 

Death will lead to compromise 

I can no longer see your face 

My bones break through my skin 

I'm goin' back to Belfast City 

You can't cage my spirit in 

Your soul's on ice oh, oh, oh, oh 

But they can't stop the desire 

To break on out oh, oh, oh, oh 

When your heart is on fire 

Your soul's on ice oh, oh, oh, oh 

But they can't stop the desire 

To break on out oh, oh, oh, oh 

When your heart is on fire