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Bono (vocalist, U2) : This song was written in a hotel room in New York City 'round about the time a friend of ours, Little Steven, was putting together a record of "Artists Against Apartheid". This is a song written about a man in a shanty town outside of Johannesburg. A man who's sick of looking down the barrel of white South Africa. A man who is at the point where he is ready to take up arms against his oppressor. A man who has lost faith in the peacemakers of the west while they argue and while they fail to support a man like Bishop Tutu and his request for economic sanctions against South Africa...
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Bono (vocalist, U2) : This song was written in a hotel room in New York City 'round about the time a friend of ours, Little Steven, was putting together a record of "Artists Against Apartheid". This is a song written about a man in a shanty town outside of Johannesburg. A man who's sick of looking down the barrel of white South Africa. A man who is at the point where he is ready to take up arms against his oppressor. A man who has lost faith in the peacemakers of the west while they argue and while they fail to support a man like Bishop Tutu and his request for economic sanctions against South Africa...
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