PHILIPPINES BLOODY PHILIPPINES

Inspired by my friend and colleague Van, I realized just how much U2′s song Sunday Bloody Sunday speaks volumes on our current situation. The Ampatuan massacre is just one of the many horrifying evils caused by a rotten political system that has spawned equally putrescent offsprings.

It’s severely depressing. And what some of us can do is just hope that there’s still justice and some goodness left in this country for us to actually live every day without fear and dread.

Hope. How we cling to it now more than ever.

I can’t believe the news today
Oh, I can’t close my eyes and make it go away
How long, how long must we sing this song?
How long? How long?
‘Cause tonight we can be as one, tonight

Broken bottles under children’s feet
Bodies strewn across the dead end streets
But I won’t heed the battle call
It puts my back up, puts my back up against the wall

Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday

And the battle’s just begun
There’s many lost but tell me who has won
The trench is dug within our hearts
And mothers, children, brothers, sisters torn apart

Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday

How long, how long must we sing this song?
How long? How long?
‘Cause tonight we can be as one
Tonight, tonight

Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday

Wipe the tears from your eyes
Wipe your tears away
Oh, wipe your tears away
Oh, wipe your tears away
Oh, wipe your blood shot eyes

Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday

And it’s true we are immune when fact is fiction and TV reality
And today the millions cry
We eat and drink while tomorrow they die
The real battle just begun to claim the victory Jesus won on

Sunday Bloody Sunday
Sunday Bloody Sunday

There are things that you will never forget. And what happened in Maguindanao is one of those things that will be forever etched in our memories.