Black 47 - Bobby Sands MP Lyrics
My name is Bobby Sands, MPBorn in the city of BelfastDivided by religionI grew up fastI was stabbed and I was spat uponMy family run out of its homeThere was only one solutionTurn the whole system upside downBut the system had other ideasI got lifted for carryin' a gunIn a trial without a juryI got fourteen years from the judgeScrews beat me regularlyBut they couldn't break me becauseI had the love of my comradesAnd a burnin' faith in my CauseStill I left a girl outside pregnantMarried her while on remandNow I got a son and a pain in my heartWhen he doesn't recognize his old manYour soul's on ice oh oh oh ohBut they can't stop the desireTo break on out oh oh oh ohWhen your heart is on fireWe wouldn't wear their convict clothesSo they stripped us to the boneThrew in some threadbare blankets.....And when they jeered us about our *****nessAs we slopped out down the hallsWe wouldn't come out of their prison cellsWe smeared shit on their prison wallsStuck in an eight foot concrete boxWith a bible, a mattressAnd the threat of violence every day....Can I make it through these fourteen yearsWill my son remember my faceI don't blame her for the separationBut for Christ's sake let him keep his nameYour soul's on ice oh oh oh ohBut they can't stop the desireTo break on out oh oh oh ohWhen your heart is on fireFive simple things we ask of themFive simple things deniedBut Thatcher will not compromise....I ask my Mother's permissionTo finally break her heartWe have come to a decision-ac
