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"When Aung San Suu Kyi was released, we punched the air. When she came to Dublin to thank Ireland and Amnesty International, we Irish could not have been more proud. When her party the NLD won a landslide in the elections and she stood her ground to become de-facto head of the country, an impossible journey seemed to be reaching its destination. We wanted to breathe a sigh of relief, but instead held our breath. She had built her reputation on her refusal to compromise her beliefs (as well as on the personal sacrifice that entailed), but forming a government requires a certain amount of pragmatism. We feared the military's brutality would be quick to show itself again if she overstepped the mark, and while hopeful for progress, we wondered if we would find ourselves once again campaigning for her release. But what has happened this year, and in particular these past months – this, we never imagined. Who could have predicted that if more than 600,000 people were fleeing from a brutal army for fear of their lives, the woman who many of us believed would have the clearest and loudest voice on the crisis would go quiet. For these atrocities against the Rohingya people to be happening on her watch blows our minds and breaks our hearts. … the violence and terror being visited on the Rohingya people are appalling atrocities and must stop. Aung San Suu Kyi's silence is starting to look a lot like assent. As Martin Luther King said: "The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people." The time has long passed for her to stand up and speak out. We know that Aung San Suu Kyi has in front of her real complexities that the outside world cannot understand — but nor should we have to. The complexity of the situation in Myanmar she inherited from her father did not sway her to compromise her ideals back in 1998, nor should it now. At some point, a fragile balancing act becomes a Faustian pact. We also believe we can't direct our anger solely in her direction. That plays right into the hands of those who are carrying out the violence. Min Aung Hlaing is not a widely recognised name outside Myanmar — it should be. This man is the Commander General in Chief of the Defence Services who answers to no-one when a security threat is declared. While this in no way excuses her silence, Aung San Suu Kyi has no control, constitutional or otherwise, over his actions, and it is he who has authorised and overseen the terrorization of the Rohingya people under the guise of protecting Myanmar from terrorism. Condemning her and ignoring him is a mistake. If this horror of human rights abuses is to stop, and if the long-term conditions for resettlement of the Rohingya people are to ever occur, General Min Aung Hlaing and his military must be just as much the focus of international action and pressure as Aung San Suu Kyi and her civilian government."
"The brave people of Ukraine are fighting for their freedom — and for ours — in the face of unspeakable violence and an unjust invasion. More than 4 million people, mostly women and children, have had to flee for their lives — a population nearly the size of Ireland. World leaders must stand up and stand by Ukranians now ... those who are fighting and those who have fled ... and stand with refugees everywhere who have been forced from their homes and their lands. #StandUpForUkraine"
"I was on the outside when you said You said you needed me. I was looking at myself. I was blind, I could not see.A boy tries hard to be a man His mother takes him by the hand If he stops to think, he starts to cry. Oh why?"
"Monday morning, Eighteen years are dawning, I said "how long?""
"Started a landslide in my ego Looked from the outside to the world I left behind. In the world I left behind Wipe their eyes and then let go In the world I left behind Shed a tear and let love go."
"I try to sing this song I, I try to stand up But I can't find my feet. I, I try to speak up But only in you I'm complete."
"I can't change the world But I can change the world in me I rejoice."
"I watched the way it was The way it was when he was with us And I really don't mind Sleeping on the floor But I couldn't sleep after what I saw I wrote this letter to tell you The way I feel."
"I wish you were here I wish you were here To see what I could see To hear And I wish you were here"
"I can't believe the news today I can't close my eyes and make it go away. How long, how long must we sing this song? How long, how long? 'Cos tonight, We can be as one, tonight."
"Broken bottles under children's feet, Bodies strewn across the dead end street. But I won't heed the battle call. It puts my back up, Puts my back up against the wall.Sunday, Bloody Sunday."
"And the battle's just begun There's many lost, but tell me who has won? The trenches dug within our hearts And mothers, children, brothers, sisters Torn apart."
"Under a blood red sky A crowd has gathered in black and white, Arms entwined, the chosen few. The newspapers says, says Say it's true it's true... And we can break through. Though torn in two, We can be one."
"And so we are told this is the golden age And gold is the reason for the wars we wage Though I want to be with you, Be with you night and day. Nothing changes On New Year's Day."
"I don't know, I don't know which side I'm on. I don't know my right from left or my right from wrong. They say I'm a fool, they say I'm nothing But if I'm a fool for you oh, that's something."
"And we live by the side of the road On the side of a hill As the valleys explode Dislocated, suffocated The land grows weary of its own."
"One man come in the name of love One man come and go. One man come, he to justify One man to overthrow."
"Early morning, April four Shot rings out in the Memphis sky Free at last, they took your life They could not take your pride.In the name of love. Once more in the name of love. In the name of love. Once more in the name of love."
"If I could, you know I would. If I could, I would let it go. This desperation. Dislocation. Separation. Condemnation. Revelation. Temptation. Isolation. Desolation.Let it go, And so to fade away."
"Sleep Sleep tonight And may your dreams Be realised."
"Love don't need to find a way You find your own way I forget that I can't stay And so I say that All roads lead to where you are."
"I want to run. I want to hide. I want to tear down the walls That hold me inside. I want to reach out And touch the flame Where the streets have no name."
"The city's aflood And our love turns to rust. We're beaten and blown by the wind, Trampled in dust. I'll show you a place High on a desert plain Where the streets have no name."
"I have climbed highest mountain; I have run through the fields. Only to be with you; Only to be with you.I have run; I have crawled. I have scaled these city walls, These city walls. Only to be with you."
"You broke the bonds and you Loosed the chains, Carried the cross Of my shame. Of my shame. You know I believed it.But I still haven't found what I'm looking for."
"See the stone set in your eyes See the thorn twist in your side. I'll wait for you.Sleight of hand and twist of fate On a bed of nails she makes me wait And I wait – without you.With or without you, With or without you."
"See across the field See the sky ripped open See the rain comin' through the gapin' wound Howlin' the women and children Who run into the arms Of America."
"Sweet the sin, bitter the taste in my mouth. I see seven towers, but I only see one way out. You gotta cry without weeping, talk without speaking Scream without raising your voice."
"Sleep comes like a drug in God's country Sad eyes, crooked crosses, in God's country."
"And in the world, a heart of darkness, a fire-zone Where poets speak their heart then bleed for it."
"She's the candle burnin' in my room Yeah, I'm like the needle The needle and spoon Over the counter, with a shotgun Pretty soon, everybody's got one I'm in a fever, when I'm beside her Desire Desire."
"All I got is a red guitar Three chords and the Truth All I got is a red guitar The rest is up to you"
"Blinded, you lost your way In the side streets and the alleyways Like a star exploding in the night Filling up the city with broad daylight."
"Many strangers have I met On the road to my regret Many lost who seek to find themselves in me. They ask me to reveal The very thoughts they would conceal. Love, rescue me."
"I've conquered my past The future is here at last I stand at the entrance to a new world I can see. The ruins to the right of me Will soon have lost sight of me. Love, rescue me."
"I was there when they crucified my Lord I held the scabbard when the soldier drew his sword. I threw the dice when they pierced his side But I've seen love conquer the great divide."
"When love comes to town I'm gonna jump that train When love comes to town I'm gonna catch that flame. Maybe I was wrong to ever let you down But I did what I did before love came to town."
"Don't believe the devil I don't believe his book But the truth is not the same Without the lies he made up. Don't believe in excess Success is to give Don't believe in riches But you should see where I live. I, I believe in love."
"You say you want diamonds on a ring of gold You say you want your story to remain untold. All the promises we make From the cradle to the grave When all I want is you."
"Give me one more chance, and you'll be satisfied. Give me two more chances, you won't be denied. Well my heart is where it's always been My head is somewhere in between Give me one more chance, let me be your lover tonight."
"Did I disappoint you? Or leave a bad taste in your mouth? You act like you never had love And you want me to go without. Well it'sToo late Tonight To drag the past out into the light. We're one, but we're not the same. We get to Carry each other, Carry each other. One."
"Have you come here for forgiveness? Have you come to raise the dead? Have you come here to play Jesus to the lepers in your head? Did I ask too much? More than a lot. You gave me nothing. Now it's all I got. We're one, But we're not the same. Well, we hurt each other, Then we do it again."
"You say love is a temple, love a higher law Love is a temple, love the higher law. You ask me to enter, but then you make me crawl And I can't be holding on to what you got, when all you got is hurt.One love, one blood One life, you got to do what you should One life, with each other Sisters, brothers One life, but we're not the same We get to carry each other, carry each other"
"In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they'd learned to swim Surrounding me, going down on me Spilling over the brim Waves of regret and waves of joy. I reached out for the one I tried to destroy. You, you said you'd wait till the end of the world."
"Who's gonna ride your wild horses? Who's gonna drown in your blue sea?... Took a drive in the dirty rain To a place where the wind calls your name Under the trees, the river laughing at you and me Hallelujah, heaven's white rose The doors you open, I just can't close... Don't turn around Don't turn around again... Come on now love Don't you look back"
"It's alright, it's alright, it's alright She moves in mysterious ways."
"Johnny, take a dive with your sister in the rain Let her talk about the things you can't explain To touch is to heal, to hurt is to steal If you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel. On your knees, boy."
"How far you gonna go before you lose your way back home? You been tryin' to throw your arms around the world."
"And a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle When you're tryin' to throw your arms around the world."
"You bury your treasure where it can't be found But your love is a secret that's been passed around. There is a silence that comes to a house Where no-one can sleep. I guess it's the price of love; I know it's not cheap."
"It's the blind leading the blond It's the cops collecting for the cons. So where is the hope and Where is the faith and the love? What's that you say to me Does love light up your Christmas tree? The next minute you're blowing a fuse And the cartoon network turns into the news."
"Jesus never let me down You know Jesus used to show me the score. Then they put Jesus in show business Now it's hard to get in the door.It's the stuff, it's the stuff of country songs But I guess it was something to go on. Hey, if God will send his angels I sure could use them here right now"
"She feel the ground is giving way But she thinks we're better off that way. The more you take, the less you feel The less you know the more you believe The more you have, the more it takes today."
"There was a badness that had its way Love was not lost, love will have its day"
"It's a beautiful day. Don't let it get away."
"You're on the road, But you've got no destination. You're in the mud, In the maze of her imagination.You love this town, Even if it doesn't ring true. You've been all over And it's been all over you."
"What you don't have you don't need it now, What you don't know you can feel it somehow."
"I'm not afraid of anything in this world There's nothing you can throw at me that I haven't already heard I'm just trying to find a decent melody A song that I can sing in my own company"
"You've got to get yourself together You've got stuck in a moment and now you can't get out of it. Don't say that later will be better now, You're stuck in a moment and you can't get out of it."
"High, higher than the sun You shoot me from a gun I need you to elevate me here, At the corner of your lips As the orbit of your hips Eclipse, you elevate my soul."
"And love is not the easy thing... The only baggage you can bring Is all that you can't leave behind."
"Walk on, walk on What you got they can't steal it No they can't even feel it Walk on, walk on... Stay safe tonight."
"Leave it behind You've got to leave it behind: All that you fashion All that you make All that you build All that you break All that you measure All that you steal All this you can leave behind All that you reason All that you sense All that you speak All you dress up All that you scheme."
"Lights go down, it's dark The jungle is your head Can't rule your heart A feeling is so much stronger than A thought Your eyes are wide And though your soul It can't be bought Your mind can wander.Hello hello I'm at a place called Vertigo It's everything I wish I didn't know Except you give me something I can feel, feel."
"The songs are in your eyes I see them when you smile I've had enough I'm not giving up On a miracle drug.Of science and the human heart There is no limit There is no failure here sweetheart Just when you quit."
"Tough, you think you've got the stuff You're telling me and anyone You're hard enough.You don't have to put up a fight You don't have to always be right Let me take some of the punches For you tonight."
"Sometimes you can't make it on your own Sometimes you can't make it The best you can do is to fake it Sometimes you can't make it on your own."
"The more you see the less you know The less you find out as you go I knew much more then than I do nowNeon heart dayglo eyes A city lit by fireflies They're advertising in the skies For people like us."
"I like the sound of my own voice I didn't give anyone else a choice An intellectual tortoise Racing with your bullet train.Some people get squashed crossing the tracks Some people got high rises on their backs I'm not broke, but you can see the cracks You can make me perfect again."
"True love never can be rent But only true love can keep beauty innocent."
"I could never take a chance Of losing love to find romance In the mysterious distance Between a man and a woman."
"Would you deny for others What you demand for yourself?"
"You speak of signs and wonders But I need something other I would believe if I was able But I'm waiting on the crumbs from your table."
"Where you live should not decide Whether you live or whether you die."
"Well the heart that hurts Is a heart that beats."
"Take these shoes Click clacking down some dead end street Take these shoes And make them fit."
"Take these hands Teach them what to carry. Take these hands Don't make a fist. Take this mouth So quick to criticize Take this mouth Give it a kiss."
"Love makes strange enemies Makes love where love may please The soul and its striptease Hate brought to its knees The sky over our head We can reach it from our bed You let me in your heart And out of my head, head.Oh can't you see what love has done? Oh can't you see what love has done? Oh can't you see what love has done? What it's done to me?"
"I was born I was born to sing for you I didn't have a choice but to lift you up And sing whatever song you wanted me to. I give you back my voice From the womb my first cry, it was a joyful noise."
"I tied myself with wire To let the horses roam free Playing with the fire Until the fire played with me."
"This shitty world sometimes produces a rose The scent of it lingers and then it just goes"
"Choose your enemies carefully ‘cos they will define you Make them interesting ‘cos in some ways they will mind you They’re not there in the beginning but when your story ends Gonna last with you longer than your friend"
"By our blindness and stupidity We kill... everything"
"Can someone see our self destruction? Are we reminding ourselves That our existence is So delicate"
"In 1000 years what will be our legacy"
"We torch this earth until it bleeds Rain ashes from the sky Just to make a light that no one can see We cut this earth until it bleeds Rain ashes from the sky"
"Order is shattered in a strange guttural tone that resounded along the walls of the houses, which seemed dead and deserted, while behind the closed shutters, eyes watched the conquerors, who, by right of the war, were now masters of the city and of the lives and fortunes of its people."
"In their darkened rooms the inhabitants have given way to the same feeling of panic which is aroused by natural cataclysms; those devastating upheavals of the earth against which wisdom and strength alike are of no avail. The same feelings experienced whenever the established order of things is upset, when security ceases to exist, when all that was previously protected by the laws of man or nature is suddenly placed at the mercy of brutal, unreasoning force."
"The earthquake, burying a whole people beneath the ruins of their houses; the river in spate, sweeping away the bodies of drowned peasants, together with the carcasses of cattle and rafters torn from roofs; or the victorious army slaughtering all who resist, making prisoners of the rest, looting by right of the sword, and thanking their god to the sound of cannon."
"All these are terrifying scourges which undermine all our belief in eternal justice, and all the trust we have been taught to place in divine protection and human reason."
"Can I start again and erase this pain by casting doubts into the waters, asking judgement of the sea. Though fortune may guide to the fools I have no wish to be free until I am gone."
"Baby you light up my world like nobody else, The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed."
"If only you saw what I could see, You'll understand why I want you so desperately. Right now I'm looking at you and I can't believe You don't know-o-ow, You don't know you're beautiful."
"So c-come on, you got it wrong; To prove I'm right I put it in a so-o-ong."
"So get out, get out, get out of my head, And fall into my arms instead. I don't-I don't don't know what it is; But you've got that one thing."
"Shot me out of the sky; You're my kryptonite."
"You don't really want my heart No, you just like to know you can still be the one who gets it breaking You only want me when I'm taken."
"Let's go crazy-crazy-crazy till we see the sun. I know we only met but let's pretend it's love."
"Oh, I just wanna show you off to all of my friends. Make them drool down their chinny-chin-chins. Baby be mine tonight, mine tonight, baby be mine tonight yeah."
"Oh baby baby don't you know you got what I need; Looking so good from your head to your feet."
"So please don't make this any harder we can't take this any farther and I know there's nothing that I want to change."
"Said her name was Georgia Rose And her daddy was a dentist. Said I had a dirty mouth, But she kissed me like she meant it."
"My hands your hands tied up like two ships drifting weightless waves tryna break it I'd do anything to save it. Why is it so hard to save it?"
"I have loved you since we were 18, long before we both thought the same thing to be loved and to be in love."
"Spaces between us hold all our secrets leaving us speechless and I don't know why who's gonna be the first to say goodbye."
"Shadows come with the pain that you're running from love was something you've never heard enough."
"Everybody wanna steal my girl"
"Someday you’re gonna see the things that I see"
"I've got a fire for a heart, I'm not scared of the dark, You've never seen it looks so easy."
"Oh, my life Is changing every day, In every possible way.And oh, my dreams, It's never quite as it seems, Never quite as it seems."
"I know I've felt like this before, But now I'm feeling it even more Because it came from you.Then I open up and see The person falling here is me: A different way to be."
"You're spinning me around, My feet are off the ground. I don't know where I stand. Do you have to hold my hand? You mystify me. You mystify me. You mystify me."
"If you, if you could return Don't let it burn, Don't let it fade. I'm sure I might be rude, But it's just your attitude. It's tearing me apart. It's ruining everything. And I swore, I swore I would be true. And honey, so did you. So why were you holding her hand? Is that the way we stand? Were you lying all the time? Was it just a game to you?But I'm in so deep. You know I'm such a fool for you. You've got me wrapped around your finger. Do you have to let it linger? Do you have to, do you have to, do you have to let it linger?"
"Unhappiness where's when I was young And we didn't give a damn Cause we were raised To see life as fun and take it if we can. My mother, my mother, She'd hold me. She'd hold me when I was out there. My father, my father, He liked me, well he liked me. Does anyone care?"
"Lying in my bed again And I cry cause you're not here. Crying in my head again And I know that it's not clear. Put your hands, put your hands Inside my face and see that it's just you. But it's bad and it's mad And it's making me sad Because I can't be with you."
"Another head hangs lowly Child is slowly taken And the violence caused such silence Who are we mistaken? But you see, it's not me, it's not my family. In your head, in your head, they are fightin'. With their tanks and their bombs and their bombs and their guns, In your head, in your head, they are cryin'. In your head, in your head Zombie, zombie, zombie-ie-ie"
"Another mother's breakin' Heart is takin' over. When the violence causes silence, We must be mistaken."
"It's the same old theme Since nineteen-sixteen..."
"There's no need to argue No need to argue anymore There's no need to argue anymore"
"To all those people doing lines: Don't do it, don't do it. Inject your soul with liberty, It's free, it's free."
"And in the night I could be helpless, I could be lonely Sleeping without you.And in the day Everything's complex, There's nothing simple When I'm not around you."
"It's not worth anything more than this at all; I live as I choose or I will not live at all."
"I'm still remembering the day I gave my life away. I'm still remembering the time You said you'd be mine. Yesterday was cold and bare Because you were not there. Yesterday was cold, My story has been told."
"Suddenly, something has happened to me As I was having my cup of tea. Suddenly, I was feeling depressed; I was utterly and totally stressed. Do you know you made me cry? (Woah-oh) Do you know you made me die?"
"You'd better believe I'm comin', You'd better believe what I say. You'd better hold on to your promises Because you bet, you'll get what you deserve. She's going to leave him over, She's gonna take her love away. So much for your eternal vows. Well, it does not matter anyway."
"There was a game we used to play: We would hit the town on Friday night, Stay in bed until Sunday. We used to be so free. We were livin' for the love we had, Livin' not for reality."
"They had an accident, But they never noticed anyway. A lack of originality, Couldn't focus on the day. So much for the radio, Everybody sounds the same. Everybody wears the same clothes now, And everybody plays the game."
"Close your eyes, close your eyes, Breathe the air, out there. We are free, we can be wide open.For you opened my eyes to the beauty I see. We will pray, we will stay wide open.Don't analyse, don't analyse. Don't go that way, don't live that way. That would paralyse your evolution."
"We better think about the things we say. We better think about the games we play. The world went round, yeah, around and round.We better think about the consequences. We better think about the global census. If time went down, yeah, if time went down."
"The Irish alternative rock outfit broke musical boundaries for their cheery melodic and dreamy approach to rock songwriting. [...] The pop-like quality to The Cranberries otherwise melancholic songwriting — not to mention O’Riordan’s signature yodel vocal style — set them apart from many of the prominent rock acts at the time, and it’s certainly an aspect that’s kept the band’s music so admired for the last three decades."
"Loveless isn’t just an essential alternative rock album, it’s also one of the best albums of the 90s. It’s like an overwhelming out-of-body experience – transcendent beauty with a capital ‘trance’ – and its reinvention of sound, texture and mood in rock music sounds as radical now as it did in 1991. My Bloody Valentine spent two years in the studio perfecting [their] formula: a dizzying blend of roaring guitars and sensual vocals from Kevin Shields and Bilinda Butcher. Loveless is a classic that’s spawned many imitators but has no peer."
"You could say, shrewdly, that Loveless combines two main modalities of the ’90s by being the greatest rock album that is made almost entirely of samples—drum loops, guitar feedback, vocals, all sent through an Akai S1000, which could then be triggered from a keyboard—creating a singular melding of dream-pop and acid-house and hip-hop that defined a new genre called shoegaze. You could say its underlying philosophy remains as relevant as ever: that sleepiness is a largely underrated state of being, that our unconscious impulses are far more truthful than our conscious behavior, that the best music should feel like it could go on forever. You could say that its chief architect, Kevin Shields, is influenced by no one more than fellow Irishman Edmund Burke, the 18th-century philosopher who coined the Romantic ideals of beauty and sublime, and who wrote that the richest emotional response from art comes from the “terrible uncertainty” it can elicit."