True or false

blindés

Cela m'agace!

creuser

croire

dans nos cœurs

déchirés

éparpillés, qui jonchent

essuyer

être réconciliés

injecté de sang

la bataille

dimanche

le dos

le faire disparaître

le refrain

les faits

les larmes

les nouvelles

pleurer

répondre à l'appel

revendiquer la victoire

toi aussi

un couplet

un vers

une impasse, une voie sans issue

une tranchée

Find the missing word

1 can't believe the news today = It just can't be ..................................

I can't' close my eyes = I just can't ignore the .............................

I can't make it go away = I can't .................................... this image

How long must we sing this song? = When will it ......................?

We can be as one tonight = we must unite ..................................... of fighting.

Broken bottles under children's feet = children ........................... in the debris.

Bodies strewn across the streets = there are ...................... bodies lying in the street.

across the dead end streets = there doesn't seem to be a ...................... out.

I won't heed the battle call = I don't want to ..............................

It puts my back up = it makes me feel .........................

It puts my back up against the wall = I .......................... escape.

And the battle's just begun = this is just the ..................................

There's many lost = many people have been ..................................

The trenches dug within our hearts = this ......................... has left scars (cicatrices) in people's hearts.

Mothers, children, brothers, sisters tom apart = the war has separated many members of the same ........................

Wipe the tears from your eyes = stop ....................................

Your bloodshot eyes = your eyes are red like ................................... because you've cried too much

And it's true we are immune = people have got used to the war: they don't react any .................................

When fact is fiction and TV reality = it's hard to make any ............................. between what is real and what is not real.

And today the millions cry = too ........................... people are suffering because of this war.

We eat and drink while tomorrow they die = we are ................................. to the others' predicament and hardships. (maybe a reference to the Lord's Last Supper with his 12 apostles before he died)

The real battle to claim the victory Jesus won = Jesus Christ died for our sins to ............................... the world.

True or false? (Reformulate whether it's false or true)

The title (and the chorus) refers to the fact that many people get bored at weekends when there's not much to do.

The song is contemporary with the shooting of thirteen British Protestants by Irish paratroopers in Derry.

All the events referred to in the song occurred on a weekday in Belfast during a peaceful demonstration.

The word 'bloody' is only a direct reference to the blood that was shed that particular day. (to shed = verser)

The singer strongly approves of the situation in his native country.

He sympathises with the Republican movement which he condemns.

He lays the stress on the tragic effects of that war on soldiers.

Bono denounces people's indifference to the tragedies shown on TV.

All the expressions and images linked with 'vision' show the singer's inability to forget the violence.

The modal ' can't ' expresses the possibility to forget the horror.

The modal 'can' underlines the hope of a possible reconciliation in the future.

The modal 'must' expresses his despair at being forced to deplore violence in his songs.

This song is pessimistic and optimistic at the same time.

Oppose and compare to the song by the Cranberries, 'Zombie'

(use the following words and expressions: both / just like / as / similarly / whereas / contrary to / unlike / ...)