-------- 1980 - Boy -------- -------- I Will Follow -------- I was on the outside when 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? If you walk away, walk away I walk away, walk away I will follow. If you walk away, walk away I walk away, walk away I will follow. I will follow. I was on the inside When they pulled the four walls down I was looking through the window I was lost, I am found. If you walk away, walk away I walk away, walk away I will follow. If you walk away, walk away I walk away, walk away I will follow. I will follow. Your eyes make a circle I see you when I go in there Your eyes, your eyes Your eyes, your eyes. If you walk away, walk away I walk away, walk away I will follow. If you walk away, walk away I walk away, walk away I will follow. I will follow. -------- 1980 - Boy -------- -------- Twilight -------- I look into his eyes They're closed but I see something. A teacher told me why I laugh when old men cry. My body grows and grows It frightens me, you know The old man tried to walk me home I thought he should have known. Twilight, lost my way Twilight, can't find my way. In the shadow, boy meets man In the shadow, boy meets man In the shadow, boy meets man In the shadow, boy meets man. I'm running in the rain I'm caught in a late night play. It's all, it's everything I'm soaking through the skin. Twilight, darkened day Twilight, lost my way Twilight, night and day Twilight, can't find my way. Can't find your way Can't find my way Can't find your way. Twilight, darkened day Twilight, lost my way Twilight, night and day Twilight, can't find my way. In the shadow, boy meets man In the shadow, boy meets man In the shadow, boy meets man In the shadow, boy meets man. -------- 1980 - Boy -------- -------- An Cat Dubh -------- Say goodnight She waits for me to turn out the light Really still She waits to break my will. Woah-oh Yes, and I know the truth about you. She cat. And in the daylight A blackbird makes a violent sight And when she is done She sleeps beside the one Woah-oh-oh Yes, and I know the truth about you She cat. Yes, and I know the truth about you She cat. -------- 1980 - Boy -------- -------- Into The Heart -------- Into the heart of a child I stay awhile But I can go there. Into the heart of a child I can smile I can't go there. Into the heart, into the heart of a child I can't go back I can't stay awhile. Into the heart. Into the heart. -------- 1980 - Boy -------- -------- Out Of Control -------- Monday morning Eighteen years dawning I said how long. Say how long. It was one dull morning I woke the world with bawling I was so sad They were so glad. I had the feeling it was out of control I was of the opinion it was out of control. Boys and girls to school And girls they make children Not like this one. I had the feeling it was out of control I was of the opinion it was out of control. I was of the feeling it was out of control I had the opinion it was out of control. I fought fate There's blood at the garden gate The man said childhood It's in his childhood One day I'll die The choice will not be mine Will it be too late? You can't fight fate. I had the feeling it was out of control I was of the opinion it was out of control. -------- 1980 - Boy -------- -------- Stories For Boys -------- There's a place I go When I am far away. There's a T.V. show And I can play. Sometimes when a hero takes me Sometimes I don't let go Oh, oh, oh. There's a picture book With colour photographs There's a comic strip That makes me laugh Sometimes away he takes me Sometimes I don't let go. Stories for boys Stories for boys Stories for boys Stories for boys Stories for boys. There's a place I go And it's a part of me There's a radio And I will go Sometimes a hero takes me Sometimes I don't let go. Stories for boys Stories for boys Stories for boys Stories for boys Stories for boys. Stories for boys. Stories for boys. Stories for boys. Stories for boys. -------- 1980 - Boy -------- -------- The Ocean -------- A picture in grey Dorian Gray Just me by the sea. And I felt like a star I felt the world could go far If they listened to what I said. The sea Washes my fee Washes my fee Splashes the sole of my shoes. -------- 1980 - Boy -------- -------- A Day Without Me -------- Started a landslide in my ego Looked from the outside to the world I left behind. I'm dreaming, you're awake If I was sleeping, what's at stake? A day without me. Whatever the feelings, I keep feeling What are the feelings you left behind? A day without me. 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. -------- 1980 - Boy -------- -------- Another Time, Another Place -------- Bright morning lights Wipe the sleep From another day's eye. Turn away from the wall And there's nothing at all. Being naked and afraid In the open space of my bed. I'll be with you now I'll be with you now I'll be with you now We lie on a cloud, we lie. Just as I am I awoke with a tear on my tongue I awoke with a feeling of never before In my sleep, I discovered the one But she left with the morning sun. I'll be with you now I'll be with you now I'll be with you now We lie on a cloud, we lie. Another time, another place We lie. Another time, another place. We lie. Another time, another place We lie. Your time, your place. -------- 1980 - Boy -------- -------- The Electric Co. -------- Boy, stupid boy Don't sit at the table Until you're able to. Toy, broken toy Shout, shout, you're inside out If you don't know. Electric Co. If you don't know Electric Co. Red, running red Play for real Talk and feel Holding your head You won't shout You still beg If you don't know The Electric Co. If you don't know. Electric Co. If you don't know Electric Co. -------- 1980 - Boy -------- -------- Shadows and Tall Trees -------- Back to the cold restless streets at night Talk to myself about tomorrow night. Walls of white protest A gravestone in name Who is it now? It's always the same. Who is it now? Who calls me inside? Are the leaves on the trees just a living disguise? I walk the street rain tragicomedy I'll walk home again to the street melody. But I know, oh no But I know, oh no But I know. Shadows and tall trees Shadows and tall trees Shadows and tall trees Shadows and tall trees. Life through a window Discoloured pain Mrs Brown's washing is always the same I walk the street rain tragicomedy I'll walk home again to the street melody. But I know, oh no But I know, oh no But I know. Do you feel in me Anything redeeming Any worthwhile feeling? Is love like a tightrope Hanging on my ceiling? But I know, oh no But I know, oh no But I know. Shadows and tall trees Shadows and tall trees Shadows and tall trees Shadows and tall trees. Shadows, shadows, shadows. Shadows, shadows, shadows. Shadows and tall trees. Shadows, shadows, shadows. Shadows, shadows, shadows. Shadows and tall trees. -------- 1981 - October -------- -------- Gloria -------- 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. Gloria In te domine Gloria Exultate Gloria Gloria Oh, Lord, loosen my lips. I try to sing this song I, I try to get in But I can't find the door The door is open You're standing there, you let me in. Gloria In te domine Gloria Exultate Oh, Lord, if I had anything, anything at all I'd give it to you. Gloria In te domine Gloria Gloria -------- 1981 - October -------- -------- I Fall Down -------- Julie says, John I'm getting nowhere I wrote this letter, hope to get someplace soon I want to get up When I wake up But when I get up I fall down. Julie wake up, Julie tell the story You wrote the letter, said you were gonna Get there someday Gonna walk in the sun And the wind and the rain Never look back again Now you fall down You're falling down You fall down You fall down. You're falling down You fall down You fall down. Julie say something, Julie say you're sorry You're gonna get better, you better not Leave me here anyway I want to get up, when you wake up But when I get up I fall down I'm falling down I fall down I broke myself. I fall, I fall down I'm falling down I fall down When you fall I fall with you And when you're falling down Is when I hit the ground. I fall with you I fall down. -------- 1981 - October -------- -------- I Threw A Brick Through A Window -------- Composer U2 I was talking, I was talking to myself Somebody else talk, talk, talking. I couldn't hear a word, a word he said. He was my brother I said there was no other way out of here Be my brother (Brother). Got to get out, got to get out. I was walking, I was walking into walls And back again I just keep walking I walk up to a window to see myself And my reflection, when I thought about it My direction, going nowhere, going nowhere. No-one, no-one is blinder Than he who will not see. No-one, no-one is blinder Than me. I was talking, I was talking in my sleep I can't stop talk, talk, talking I'm talking to you, it's up to you Be my brother, there is no other way out of here Be my brother Got to get out, got to get out Got to get out of here. -------- 1981 - October -------- -------- Rejoice -------- It's falling, it's falling And outside a building comes tumbling down. And inside a child on the ground Says he'll do it again. And what am I to do? What in the world am I to say? There's nothing else to do. He says he'll change the world some day I rejoice. This morning I fell out of bed When I woke up to what he had said Everything's crazy but I'm too lazy to lie. And what am I to do? Just tell me what am I supposed to say? I can't change the world But I can change the world in me Rejoice. Rejoice. And what am I to do? Just tell me what am I supposed to say? I can't change the world But I can change the world in me. I rejoice. -------- 1981 - October -------- -------- Fire -------- Calling, calling the sun is burning black Calling, calling, it's beating on my back With a fire With a fire. Calling, calling, the moon is running red Calling, calling, it's pulling me instead With a fire, fire. But there's a fire inside And I'm falling over There's a fire in me When I call out You built a fire, fire I'm going home. Calling, calling, the stars are falling down Calling, calling, they knock me to the ground With a fire, fire. But there's a fire inside And I'm falling over There's a fire inside When I call out There's a fire inside When I'm falling over You built a fire, fire I'm going home. -------- 1981 - October -------- -------- Tomorrow -------- Won't you come back tomorrow Won't you come back tomorrow Won't you come back tomorrow Can I sleep tonight? Outside, somebody's outside Somebody's knocking at the door. There's a black car parked at the side of the road Don't go to the door Don't go to the door. I'm going out. I'm going outside mother. I'm going out there. Won't you be back tomorrow, Won't you be back tomorrow, Will you be back tomorrow? Can I sleep tonight? Who broke the window Who broke down the door? Who tore the curtain And who was it for? Who heals the wounds Who heals the scars? Open the door, open the door. Won't you come back tomorrow? Won't you be back tomorrow? Will you be back tomorrow? Can I sleep tonight? 'Cause I want you I, I want you I really want you. I, I want, I, I Want you to be back tomorrow I want you to be back tomorrow. Will you be back tomorrow? Can I sleep tonight? I want you to be back tomorrow I want you to be back tomorrow. Will you be back tomorrow? Open up, open up, to the Lamb Of God To the love of He Who made the blind to see. He's coming back He's coming back O believe Him. -------- 1981 - October -------- -------- October -------- October and the trees are stripped bare Of all they wear. What do I care? October and kingdoms rise And kingdoms fall But you go on And on. -------- 1981 - October -------- -------- With a Shout (Jerusalem) -------- Oh, where do we go, Where do we go from here? Where to go? To the side of a hill Blood was spilt We were still looking at each other. But we're going back there? Jerusalem Jerusalem Shout, shout, with a shout Shout it out, shout Shout it out. I want to go, to the foot of Mount Zion To the foot of He who made me see To the side of a hill blood was spilt We were filled with a love And we're going to be there again Jerusalem Jerusalem Jerusalem Jerusalem Jerusalem Jerusalem Jerusalem Shout, shout, with a shout Shout, with a shout. -------- 1981 - October -------- -------- Stranger in a Strange Land -------- Stranger, stranger in a strange land. He looked at me like I was the one who should run. We asked him to smile for a photograph Waited a while to see if we could make him laugh. The soldier asked for a cigarette His smiling face I can't forget. He looked at me across the street But that's a long way here. Oh, and I wish you were here. Oh, and I wish you were here. Stranger, stranger in a strange land. He looked at me like I was the one who should run. I watched as he watched us get back on the bus 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. Oh I wish you were here Oh I wish you were here To see what I could see To hear And I wish you were here. -------- 1981 - October -------- -------- Scarlet -------- Rejoice Rejoice Rejoice -------- 1981 - October -------- -------- Is That All? -------- Oh to sing this song makes me angry I'm not angry with you. Is that all? Is that all? Is that all? Oh to sing this song makes me happy I'm not happy with you. Oh to sing this song makes me dance. Is that all? Is that all? Is that all? Is that all? Is that all? Is that all? Is that all you want from me? -------- 1983 - War -------- -------- Sunday Bloody Sunday -------- 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. Sunday, bloody Sunday. Sunday, bloody Sunday. Sunday, bloody Sunday. Oh, let's go. 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. Sunday, bloody Sunday. Sunday, bloody Sunday. How long, how long must we sing this song? How long, how long? 'Cos tonight We can be as one, tonight. Sunday, bloody Sunday. Sunday, bloody Sunday. Wipe the tears from your eyes Wipe your tears away. I'll wipe your tears away. I'll wipe your tears away. I'll wipe your bloodshot 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.. -------- 1983 - War -------- -------- Seconds -------- Takes a second to say goodbye, say goodbye Takes a second to say goodbye, say goodbye Oh, oh, oh, say bye-bye. Where you going to now? Lightning flashes across the sky East to West, do and die. Like a thief in the night, see the world by candlelight. Fall, rise and... Fall, rise and... In an apartment on Times Square You can assemble them anywhere. Held to ransom, hell to pay A revolution every day. U.S.S.R., G.D.R., London, New York, Peking. It's the puppets, it's the puppets pull the strings, yeah. Fall, rise and... Fall, rise and... Say goodbye, say goodbye Say goodbye, say goodbye. It takes a second to say goodbye Say goodbye, oh, oh, oh. Push the button and pull the plug Say goodbye, oh, oh, oh. Fall, rise and... Fall, rise and... And they're doing the atomic bomb Do they know where the dance comes from? Yes they're doing the atomic bomb They want you to sing along. Say goodbye, say goodbye Say goodbye, say goodbye. -------- 1983 - War -------- -------- New Year's Day -------- All is quiet on New Year's Day. A world in white gets underway. I want to be with you, be with you night and day. Nothing changes on New Year's Day. On New Year's Day. I... will be with you again. I... will be with you again. Under a blood-red sky A crowd has gathered in black and white Arms entwined, the chosen few The newspaper says, says Say it's true, it's true... And we can break through Though torn in two We can be one. I... I will begin again I... I will begin again. Oh, oh. Oh, oh. Oh, oh. Oh, maybe the time is right. Oh, maybe tonight. I will be with you again. I will be with you again. 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 On New Year's Day On New Year's Day -------- 1983 - War -------- -------- Like A Song -------- Like a song I have to sing I sing it for you. Like the words I have to bring I bring it for you. And in leather, lace and chains we stake our claim. Revolution once again No I won't, I won't wear it on my sleeve. I can see through this expression and you know I don't believe. Too old to be told, exactly who are you? Tonight, tomorrow's too late. And we love to wear a badge, a uniform And we love to fly a flag But I won't let others live in hell As we divide against each other And we fight amongst ourselves Too set in our ways to try to rearrange Too right to be wrong, in this rebel song Let the bells ring out Let the bells ring out Is there nothing left? Is there, is there nothing? Is there nothing left? Is honesty what you want? A generation without name, ripped and torn Nothing to lose, nothing to gain Nothing at all And if you can't help yourself Well take a look around you When others need your time You say it's time to go... it's your time. Angry words won't stop the fight Two wrongs won't make it right. A new heart is what I need. Oh, God make it bleed. Is there nothing left? -------- 1983 - War -------- -------- Drowning Man -------- Take my hand You know I'll be there If you can I'll cross the sky for your love. For I have promised For to be with you tonight And for the time that will come. Take my hand You know I'll be there If you can I'll cross the sky for your love. And I understand These winds and tides This change of times Won't drag you away. Hold on, and hold on tightly. Hold on, and don't let go of my love. The storms will pass, it won't be long now. This love will last, this love will last forever. And take my hand, you know I'll be there. If you can I'll cross the sky for your love. Give you what I hold dear. Hold on, hold on tightly. Hold on, and hold on tightly. Rise up, rise up with wings like eagles. You run, you run. You run and not grow weary. Hold on, and hold on tightly. Hold on, hold on tightly This love, lasts forever. Now this love lasts forever. -------- 1983 - War -------- -------- The Refugee -------- Wa, war she's the refugee. I see your face, I see you staring back at me. Wa, war she is the refugee. Her mama say one day she's gonna live in America. In the morning she is waiting Waiting for the ship to sail, sail away. Wa, war her papa go to war. He gonna fight but he don't know what for. Wa, war her papa go to war. Her mama say one day he's gonna come back from far away. Oh help me How can you help me? In the evening She is waiting Waiting for her man to come And take her by her hand And take her to this promised land. Wa, war she's a pretty face But at the wrong time in the wrong place Wa, war she's a pretty face Her mama say one days she's gonna live in America. Yeah, America. Wa, war she is a refugee. She coming back, she come and keep you company. Wa, war she is a refugee. Her mama say one day she's gonna live in America. -------- 1983 - War -------- -------- Two Hearts Beat As One -------- 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. Two hearts beat as one. Two hearts beat as one. Two hearts. I can't stop to dance Honey, this is my last chance I said, can't stop to dance Maybe this is my last chance. Two hearts beat as one. Two hearts beat as one. Two hearts. Beat on black, beat on white Beat on anything, don't get it right. Beat on you, beat on me, beat on love. I don't know How to say what's got to be said I don't know if it's black or white There's others see it red I don't get the answers right I'll leave that to you Is this love out of fashion Or is it the time of year? Are these words distraction To the words you wanna hear? Two hearts beat as one. Two hearts beat as one. Two hearts. I try to spit it out Try to explain. The way I wanna feel Oh, yeah, two hearts. Well I can't stop to dance. Maybe this is my last chance. And I said, I can't stop to dance. Maybe this is my last chance. I said don't stop to dance Maybe this is my last chance. I said I can't stop to dance. Maybe this is our last chance. I said don't stop to dance. Maybe this is our last chance. Oh, oh! -------- 1983 - War -------- -------- Red Light -------- Oh I talk to you, you walk away. You're still on the down beat You say you don't want my help. But you can't escape if you're running from yourself. I give you my love I give you my love Give you my love Still you walk away. Well It's your own late show as you jump to the street below. But where can you go to leave yourself behind? Alone in the spotlight of this, your own tragedy. I give you my love. Love. I give you my love. Give you my love. I give you my love. I give you my love. I give you my love. -------- 1983 - War -------- -------- Surrender -------- Oh, the city's alight with lovers and lies And bright blue eyes. Oh, the city is bright, it's brighter than day tonight. (Surrender, surrender) (Surrender, surrender) Sadie said she couldn't work out what it was all about And so she let go. Now Sadie's on the street and the people she meets you know. She tried to be a good girl and a good wife Raise a good family Lead a good life It's not good enough She got herself up on the 48th floor Gotta find out Find out what she's living for. Oh, the city's afire A passionate flame that knows me by name. Oh, the city's desire to take me for more and more. It's in the street gettin' under my feet It's in the air, it's everywhere I look for you. It's in the things that I do and say And it I wanna live I gotta die to myself someday. -------- 1983 - War -------- -------- 40 -------- I waited patiently for the Lord. He inclined and heard my cry. He brought me up out of the pit Out of the miry clay. I will sing, sing a new song. I will sing, sing a new song. How long to sing this song? How long to sing this song? How long, how long, how long How long to sing this song? You set my feet upon a rock And made my footsteps firm. Many will see, many will see and hear. I will sing, sing a new song. I will sing, sing a new song I will sing, sing a new song. I will sing, sing a new song How long to sing this song? How long to sing this song? How long to sing this song? How long to sing this song? . -------- 1984 - The Unforgettable Fire -------- -------- A Sort Of Homecoming -------- And you know it's time to go Through the sleet and driving snow Across the fields of mourning to a light that's in the distance. And you hunger for the time Time to heal, 'desire' time And your earth moves beneath your own dream landscape. On borderland we run. I'll be there, I'll be there tonight A high-road, a high-road out from here. The city walls are all come down The dust a smoke screen all around See faces ploughed like fields that once Gave no resistance. 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 it's own. O com-away, o com-away, o-com, o com-away, I say I O com-away, o com-away, o-com, o com-away, I say I Oh, oh on borderland we run And still we run, we run and don't look back I'll be there, I'll be there Tonight, tonight I'll be there tonight, I believe I'll be there so high I'll be there tonight, tonight. Oh com-away, I say, o com-away, I say. The wind will crack in winter time This bomb-blast lightning waltz. No spoken words, just a scream Tonight we'll build a bridge across the sea and land See the sky, the burning rain She will die and live again tonight. And your heart beats so slow Through the rain and fallen snow Across the fields of mourning to a light that's in the distance. Oh, don't sorrow, no don't weep For tonight at last I am coming home. I am coming home. -------- 1984 - The Unforgettable Fire -------- -------- Pride (In The Name Of Love) -------- One man come in the name of love One man come and go. One man come he to justify One man to overthrow. In the name of love What more in the name of love. In the name of love What more in the name of love. One man caught on a barbed wire fence One man he resist One man washed up on an empty beach One man betrayed with a kiss. In the name of love What more in the name of love. In the name of love What more in the name of love. 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 What more in the name of love. In the name of love What more in the name of love. In the name of love What more in the name of love. In the name of love What more in the name of love. -------- 1984 - The Unforgettable Fire -------- -------- Wire -------- Innocent, and in a sense I am Guilty of the crime that's now in hand Such a nice day Throw your life away Such a nice day Let it go Cold these eyes, I can't believe it Cold, this heart is slow Heart is stone Call me Such a cold heart Such a cold man Watch you tear your self apart So lay me down My soul to give So lay me down The longest sleep Oh, the longest sleep In I come and out you go you get Here we are again now, place your bets Is this the time The time to win or lose Is this the time The time to choose Cold these eyes, I can't believe it So deep inside a cold fire Cold, this heart is slow... Heart is stone Any time your on there (Kiss me...) Won't you tell me That's it just give me it In some white track You come right back Cartoon cutout Cut throat let out I'm on your side Be on the both side I'm on right track You get off my back I'm no dope I give you hope Here's the rope Here's the rope Now...swing away -------- 1984 - The Unforgettable Fire -------- -------- The Unforgettable Fire -------- Ice, your only rivers run cold. These city lights, they shine as silver and gold. Dug from the night, your eyes as black as coal. Walk on by, walk on through. Walk till you run and don't look back For here I am. Carnival, the wheels fly and the colours spin through alcohol. Red wine that punctures the skin. Face to face in a dry and waterless place. Walk on by, walk on through. So sad to besiege your love oh hang on. Stay this time, stay tonight in a lie. I'm only asking, but I, I think you know. Come on take me away, come on take me away Come on take me home, home again. And if the mountains should crumble Or disappear into the sea Not a tear, no not I. Stay this time, stay tonight in a lie. Ever after is a long time. And if you save your love, save it all, save it all Don't push me too far, don't push me too far. Tonight, tonight. -------- 1984 - The Unforgettable Fire -------- -------- Promenade -------- Earth, sky, scenery. Is she coming back again? Men of straw, snooker hall. Words that build or destroy Dirt dry, bone, sand and stone. Barbed wire fence cut me down. I'd like to be around in a spiral staircase To the higher ground. And I, like a firework, explode. Roman candle, lightning, lights up the sky. In cracked streets, trample underfoot. Side-step, sidewalk. I see you stare into space. Have I got closer now, behind the face? Oh, tell me, Cherry you dance with me Turn me around tonight Up through the spiral staircase to the higher ground. Slide show, seaside town. Coca-cola, football radio, radio, radio, radio, radio, radio. -------- 1984 - The Unforgettable Fire -------- -------- 4th Of July -------- No lyrics on this track. -------- 1984 - The Unforgettable Fire -------- -------- Bad -------- If you twist and turn away. It you tear yourself in two again. If I could, yes I would If I could, I would let it go. Surrender, dislocate. If I could throw this lifeless life-line to the wind. Leave this heart of clay, see you walk, walk away Into the night, and through the rain Into the half light and through the flame. If I could, through myself, set your spirit free I'd lead your heart away, see you break, break away Into the light and to the day. To let it go and so to find away. To let it go and so find away. I'm wide awake. I'm wide awake, wide awake. I'm not sleeping. If you should ask, then maybe They'd tell you what I would say True colours fly in blue and black Blue silken sky and burning flag. Colours crash, collide in blood-shot eyes. If I could, you know I would If I could, I would let it go. This desperation, dislocation Separation, condemnation Revelation, in temptation Isolation, desolation Let it go and so to find away To let it go and so to find away To let it go and so to find away I'm wide awake, I'm wide awake, wide awake I'm not sleeping Oh no, no, no. -------- 1984 - The Unforgettable Fire -------- -------- Indian Summer Sky -------- In the ocean cuts ring deep, the sky. Like there, I don't know why. In the forest there's a clearing I run there towards the light. Sky, it's a blue sky. In the earth the hole deep, deep, decide. If I could I would. Up for air to swim against the tide. Hey, hey, hey. Up towards the sky. It's a blue sky. To lose along the way the spark that set the flame To flicker and to fade on this the longest day. So wind go through to my heart. So wind blow through my soul. So wind go through to my heart. So wind blow through my soul. So wind go through to my heart. You give yourself to this the longest day. You give yourself, you give it all away. Two rivers run too deep, the seasons change and so do I. The light that strikes the tallest trees the light away for I. The light away, up towards the sky. It's a blue sky. To lose along the way the spark that set the flame To flicker and to fade on this the longest day. So wind go through to my heart. So wind blow through my soul. So wind go through to my heart. So wind blow through my soul. So wind go through my heart. So wind blow through my soul. So wind go through to my heart. You give yourself to this the longest day. You give yourself, you give it all away. -------- 1984 - The Unforgettable Fire -------- -------- Elvis Presley And America -------- (Black flash) Black flash over my own love Tell me of my eyes Black flash come though my own life Telling these things And I believe them And I believe in you White flash sees the sky And it turns its side from you She won't turn my back And I know you turn so blue And you know And your sky is feeling blue And your heart So cold when I'm with you And you feel Like no one told you to And your time is your side And your time with me Ah, don't talk to me Ah, don't talk to me Don't talk to me You know Like no one told you how But you know Though the king that howls has howled But you feel like sentimental But you don't care If I just share it in your heart (heart...) Hopelessly So hopelessly I'm breaking through for you and me And you don't Though no one told you to And you found out Where you were going, where to You're through with me But I know that you will be back For more You know And though no one told you so And you know, blue sky Like a harder shade of blue And you walk When you want To let go Me, I'm the outside, tell me fade away Drop me down but don't break me In your sleep In your sleep, inside It's in your heart and mine Whole sea is dark It's in your heart and mine Sweetly, those will come Loving is on your side walking through So let me in your heart Your beat is like something... They... Run... See say you're sad and reach by So say you're sad above beside Oh stay you're sad over midnight So stay sad above we said You know I don't No one told you how (and you don't) (and you wipe sweat off your white brow) And you care And no one told you tried And your heart Is left out from the side And the rain beats down And the shame goes down And this rain keeps on coming down And this sky Tonight... You know "S" "O" "N" "G", why You're going go join to God You know "S" "O" "N" "G", why Give away some him no lie Give away some my de day no You know And though no one told you sky And you feel Like you pretend you can You say go, you live Go live outside of me Don't you leave Don't leave out part of me Then can feel Like I feel before Like I hurt now And I see the floor If you pick me up Bits and pieces on this floor -------- 1984 - The Unforgettable Fire -------- -------- MLK -------- Sleep, sleep tonight And may your dreams be realised. If the thunder cloud passes rain So let it rain, rain down on he. So let it be. So let it be. Sleep, sleep tonight And may your dreams be realised. If the thunder cloud passes rain So let it rain, let it rain Rain down on he. -------- 1987 - The Joshua Tree -------- -------- Where The Streets Have No Name -------- I wanna run, I want to hide I wanna tear down the walls That hold me inside. I wanna reach out And touch the flame Where the streets have no name. I wanna feel sunlight on my face. I see the dust-cloud Disappear without a trace. I wanna take shelter From the poison rain Where the streets have no name Where the streets have no name Where the streets have no name. We're still building and burning down love Burning down love. And when I go there I go there with you (It's all I can do). The city's a flood, 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 Where the streets have no name Where the streets have no name. We're still building and burning down love Burning down love. And when I go there I go there with you (It's all I can do). -------- 1987 - The Joshua Tree -------- -------- I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For -------- I have climbed the highest mountains 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. But I still haven't found What I'm looking for. But I still haven't found What I'm looking for. I have kissed honey lips Felt the healing in her finger tips It burned like fire (I was) burning inside her. I have spoke with the tongue of angels I have held the hand of a devil It was warm in the night I was cold as a stone. But I still haven't found What I'm looking for. But I still haven't found What I'm looking for. I believe in the Kingdom Come Then all the colours will bleed into one Bleed into one. But yes, I'm still running. You broke the bonds And you loosed the chains Carried the cross of my shame Oh my shame, you know I believe it. But I still haven't found What I'm looking for. But I still haven't found What I'm looking for. But I still haven't found What I'm looking for. But I still haven't found What I'm looking for. -------- 1987 - The Joshua Tree -------- -------- With Or Without You -------- See the stone set in your eyes See the thorn twist in your side. I 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. Through the storm, we reach the shore You gave it all but I want more And I'm waiting for you With or without you With or without you. I can't live with or without you. And you give yourself away And you give yourself away And you give, and you give And you give yourself away. My hands are tied, my body bruised She got me with nothing to win And nothing else to lose. And you give yourself away And you give yourself away And you give, and you give And you give yourself away. With or without you With or without you I can't live With or without you. With or without you With or without you I can't live With or without you With or without you. -------- 1987 - The Joshua Tree -------- -------- Bullet The Blue Sky -------- In the howlin' wind Comes a stingin' rain See it drivin' nails Into the souls on the tree of pain. From the firefly A red orange glow See the face of fear Runnin' scared in the valley below. Bullet the blue sky Bullet the blue sky Bullet the blue Bullet the blue. In the locust wind Comes a rattle and hum. Jacob wrestled the angel And the angel was overcome. You plant a demon seed You raise a flower of fire. We see them burnin' crosses See the flames, higher and higher. Woh, woh, bullet the blue sky Bullet the blue sky Bullet the blue Bullet the blue. Suit and tie comes up to me His face red like a rose on a thorn bush Like all the colours of a royal flush And he's peelin' off those dollar bills (Slappin' 'em down) One hundred, two hundred. And I can see those fighter planes And I can see those fighter planes Across the tin huts as children sleep Through the alleys of a quiet city street. Up the staircase to the first floor We turn the key and slowly unlock the door As a man breathes into his saxophone And through the walls you hear the city groan. Outside, is America Outside, is America America. 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. -------- 1987 - The Joshua Tree -------- -------- Running To Stand Still -------- And so she woke up Woke up from where she was lyin' still. Said I gotta do something About where we're goin'. Step on a fast train Step out of the driving rain, maybe Run from the darkness in the night. Singing ah, ah la la la de day Ah la la la de day. 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. You know I took the poison, from the poison stream Then I floated out of here, singing Ah la la la de day Ah la la la de day. She walks through the streets With her eyes painted red Under black belly of cloud in the rain. In through a doorway She brings me white golden pearls Stolen from the sea. She is ragin' She is ragin' And the storm blows up in her eyes. She will suffer the needle chill She's running to stand still. -------- 1987 - The Joshua Tree -------- -------- Red Hill Mining Town -------- From father to son The blood runs thin Ooh, see the faces frozen (still) Against the wind. The seam is split The coal-face cracked The lines are long There's no going back. Through hands of steel And heart of stone Our labour day Has come and gone. They leave me holdin' on In Red Hill Town. See the lights go down on ... Hangin' on You're all that's left to hold on to. I'm still waiting I'm hangin' on You're all that's left to hold on to. The glass is cut The bottle run dry. Our love runs cold In the caverns of the night. We're wounded by fear Injured in doubt. I can lose myself You I can't live without. Yeah, you keep me holdin' on In Red Hill Town. See the lights go down on Hangin' on You're all that's left to hold on to. I'm still waiting I'm hangin' on You're all that's left to hold on to On to. We scorch the earth Set fire to the sky And we stooped so low To reach so high. A link is lost The chain undone. We wait all day For night to come And it comes like a hunter (child). I'm hangin' on You're all that's left to hold on to. I'm still waiting I'm hangin' on You're all that's left to hold on to. We see love, slowly stripped away Our love has seen its better day. Hangin' on Lights go down on Red Hill The lights go down on Red Hill. The lights go down on Red Hill. The lights go down on Red Hill Town.. -------- 1987 - The Joshua Tree -------- -------- In God's Country -------- Desert sky, dream beneath the desert sky. The rivers run but soon run dry. We need new dreams tonight. Desert rose, dreamed I saw a desert rose Dress torn in ribbons and bows Like a siren she calls (to me). Sleep comes like a drug in God's country Sad eyes, crooked crosses, in God's country Set me alight, we'll punch a hole right through the night. Every day the dreamers die to see what's on the other side. She is liberty, and she comes to rescue me. Hope, faith, her vanity The greatest gift is gold. Sleep comes like a drug in God's country Sad eyes, crooked crosses, in God's country Naked flame, she stands with a naked flame I stand with the sons of Cain Burned by the fire of love Burned by the fire of love. -------- 1987 - The Joshua Tree -------- -------- Trip Through Your Wires -------- In the distance, she saw me comin' round I was callin' out, I was callin' out. Still shakin', still in pain You put me back together again. I was cold and you clothed me, honey I was down, and you lifted me, honey. Angel, angel or devil? I was thirsty And you wet my lips. You, I'm waiting for you You, you set my desire I trip through your wires. I was broken, bent out of shape I was naked in the clothes you made. Lips were dry, throat like rust You gave me shelter from the heat and the dust. No more water in the well No more water, water. Angel, angel or devil? I was thirsty And you wet my lips. You, I'm waiting for you You, you set my desire I trip through your wires. Oh I need, oh I need Oh I need, oh I need it. Oh I need, oh I need All I need, yeah, yeah! Thunder, thunder on the mountain There's a raincloud In the desert sky. In the distance She saw me comin' round I was callin' out I was callin' out. -------- 1987 - The Joshua Tree -------- -------- One Tree Hill -------- We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill As the day begs the night for mercy, love. A sun so bright it leaves no shadows Only scars carved into stone on the face of earth. The moon is up and over One Tree Hill We see the sun go down in your eyes. You run like a river on to the sea You run like a river runs to the sea. And in the world, a heart of darkness, a fire-zone Where poets speak their heart then bleed for it Jara sang, his song a weapon in the hands of love. You know his blood still cries from the ground. It runs like a river runs to the sea. It runs like a river to the sea. I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts While bullets rape the night of the merciful. I'll see you again when the stars fall from the sky And the moon has turned red over One Tree Hill. We run like a river runs to the sea We run like a river to the sea. And when it's rainin', rainin' hard That's when the rain will break a heart. Rainin', rainin' in your heart Rainin' in your heart. Rainin', rain into your heart Rainin', rainin', rainin' Rain into your heart. Rainin', ooh, rain in your heart, yeah. Feel it. Oh great ocean Oh great sea Run to the ocean Run to the sea. -------- 1987 - The Joshua Tree -------- -------- Exit -------- You know he got the cure But then he went astray He used to stay awake To drive the dreams he had away. He wanted to believe In the hands of love. His head it felt heavy As he came across the land A dog started cryin' Like a broken-hearted man At the howling wind At the howling wind. He went deeper into black Deeper into white. He could see the stars shine Like nails in the night. He felt the healing Healing, healing, healing hands of love Like the stars shiny, shiny from above. A hand in the pocket Fingering the steel The pistol weighed heavy And his heart he could feel was beating Beating, beating, beating, Oh my love, oh my love Oh my love, oh my love. So hands that build Can also pull down The hands of love. -------- 1987 - The Joshua Tree -------- -------- Mothers of the Disappeared -------- Midnight, our sons and daughters Were cut down and taken from us. Hear their heartbeat We hear their heartbeat. In the wind we hear their laughter In the rain we see their tears. Hear their heartbeat, we hear their heartbeat. Night hangs like a prisoner Stretched over black and blue. Hear their heartbeats We hear their heartbeats. In the trees our sons stand naked Through the walls our daughter cry See their tears in the rainfall. -------- 1988 - Rattle and Hum -------- -------- Helter Skelter -------- Composer: Lennon & McCartney When you get to the bottom You go back to the top of the slide And you stop and you turn And you go for a ride Then you get to the bottom Then you see me again Do you, don't you want me to love you Coming down fast I'm right here above you Tell me tell me tell me the answer Ain't no lover but you ain't no dancer Helter skelter Helter skelter Helter skelter Do you, don't you want me to make you I'm coming down fast now don't let me break you Tell me tell me tell me the answer You ain't no lover but you ain't no dancer Helter skelter Helter skelter Helter skelter When you get to the bottom You go back to the top of the slide And you turn and you stop And you go for a ride Then you get to the bottom Then you see me again Do you, don't you want me to love you Coming down fast I'm right here above you Tell me tell me tell me the answer Ain't no lover but you ain't no dancer Helter skelter Helter skelter Helter skelter...(and again) Helter skelter Helter skelter Helter skelter -------- 1988 - Rattle and Hum -------- -------- Van Diemen's Land -------- Hold me now, oh hold me now Till this hour has gone around And I gone, on the rising tide For to face Van Diemen's land. It's a bitter pill I swallow here To be rent from one so dear. We fought for justice and not for gain But the magistrate sent me away. Now kings will rule and the poor will toil And tear their hands as they tear the soil But a day will come in this dawning age When an honest man sees an honest wage. Hold me now, oh hold me now Till this hour has gone around And I'm gone on the rising tide For to face Van Diemen's Land. -------- 1988 - Rattle and Hum -------- -------- I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For -------- I have climbed the highest mountains 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. But I still haven't found What I'm looking for. But I still haven't found What I'm looking for. I have kissed honey lips Felt the healing in her finger tips It burned like fire (I was) burning inside her. I have spoke with the tongue of angels I have held the hand of a devil It was warm in the night I was cold as a stone. But I still haven't found What I'm looking for. But I still haven't found What I'm looking for. I believe in the Kingdom Come Then all the colours will bleed into one Bleed into one. But yes, I'm still running. You broke the bonds And you loosed the chains Carried the cross of my shame Oh my shame, you know I believe it. But I still haven't found What I'm looking for. But I still haven't found What I'm looking for. But I still haven't found What I'm looking for. But I still haven't found What I'm looking for. -------- 1988 - Rattle and Hum -------- -------- Pride (In The Name Of Love) -------- One man come in the name of love One man come and go. One man come he to justify One man to overthrow. In the name of love What more in the name of love. In the name of love What more in the name of love. One man caught on a barbed wire fence One man he resist One man washed up on an empty beach One man betrayed with a kiss. In the name of love What more in the name of love. In the name of love What more in the name of love. 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 What more in the name of love. In the name of love What more in the name of love. In the name of love What more in the name of love. In the name of love What more in the name of love. -------- 1988 - Rattle and Hum -------- -------- Desire -------- Lover, I'm off the streets I'm gonna go where the bright lights And the big city meet With a red guitar, on fire Desire. 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. And the fever, gettin' higher Desire Desire. (Burning, burning). She's the dollars She's my protection Yeah, she's the promise In the year of election. Sister I can't let you go Like a preacher stealin' hearts at a travellin' show For love or money, money, money... ? And the fever, gettin' higher. Desire. -------- 1988 - Rattle and Hum -------- -------- Hawkmoon 269 -------- Like a desert needs rain Like a town needs a name I need your love. Like a drifter needs a room Hawkmoon I need your love. I need your love. Like a rhythm unbroken Like drums in the night Like sweet soul music Like sunlight I need your love. Like coming home And you don't know where you've been Like black coffee Like nicotine I need your love, I need your love. When the night has no end And the day yet to begin As the room spins around I need your love I need your love. Like a Phoenix rising needs a holy tree Like the sweet revenge Of a bitter enemy I need your love. Like heat needs the sun Like honey on her tongue Like the muzzle of a gun Like oxygen I need your love, I need your love. When the night has no end And the day yet to begin As the room spins around I need your love I need your love. Like thunder needs rain Like a preacher needs pain Like tongues of flame Like a sweet stain Need your love I need your love. Like a needle needs a vein Like someone to blame Like a thought unchained Like a runaway train Need your love, I need your love. Need your love I need your love. Like faith needs a doubt Like a freeway out Need your love. Like powder needs a spark Like lies need the dark I need your love. -------- 1988 - Rattle and Hum -------- -------- Bullet The Blue Sky -------- In the howlin' wind Comes a stingin' rain See it drivin' nails Into the souls on the tree of pain. From the firefly A red orange glow See the face of fear Runnin' scared in the valley below. Bullet the blue sky Bullet the blue sky Bullet the blue Bullet the blue. In the locust wind Comes a rattle and hum. Jacob wrestled the angel And the angel was overcome. You plant a demon seed You raise a flower of fire. We see them burnin' crosses See the flames, higher and higher. Woh, woh, bullet the blue sky Bullet the blue sky Bullet the blue Bullet the blue. Suit and tie comes up to me His face red like a rose on a thorn bush Like all the colours of a royal flush And he's peelin' off those dollar bills (Slappin' 'em down) One hundred, two hundred. And I can see those fighter planes And I can see those fighter planes Across the tin huts as children sleep Through the alleys of a quiet city street. Up the staircase to the first floor We turn the key and slowly unlock the door As a man breathes into his saxophone And through the walls you hear the city groan. Outside, is America Outside, is America America. 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. -------- 1988 - Rattle and Hum -------- -------- Silver & Gold -------- In the shithouse a shotgun Praying hands hold me down. If only the hunter was hunted In this tin can town, tin can town. No stars in the black night Looks like the sky fall down. No sun in the daylight Looks like it's chained to the ground, chained to the ground. The warden says "The exodus sold." If you want a way out... Silver and gold, silver and gold. Broken back to the ceiling Broken nose to the floor. I scream at the silence It's crawling, crawls under the door. There's a rope around my neck And there's a trigger in your gun. Jesus, say something! I am someone, I am someone. Captains and Kings in the ship's hold They came to collect Silver and gold, silver and gold. I seen the coming and the going Seen the captains and the Kings. Seen their navy blue uniforms Seen them bright and shiny things, bright and shiny things. The temperature is rising The fever white hot Mister I ain't got nothing But it's more than you've got These chains no longer bind me Nor the shackles at my feet Outside are the prisoners Inside the free (set them free). A prize fighter in a corner is told Hit where it hurts - For Silver and Gold You can stop the world from turning around You just gotta pay a penny in the pound. -------- 1988 - Rattle and Hum -------- -------- Freedom For My People -------- No Lyrics on this track. -------- 1988 - Rattle and Hum -------- -------- Angel Of Harlem -------- It was a cold and wet December day When we touched the ground at J.F.K. The snow was melting on the ground On B.L.S. I heard the sound (Of an angel). New York like a Christmas tree Tonight, this city belongs to me, (Angel). Soul love Well this love won't let me go. So long Angel of Harlem. Birdland on Fifty-Three The street sounds like a symphony We got John Coltrane and a love supreme Miles and she's got to be an angel. Lady Day got diamond eyes She sees the truth behind the lies (Angel). Soul love Well this love won't let me go. So long Angel of Harlem. Blue light on the avenue God knows they got to you Empty glass, the lady sings Eyes swollen like a bee-sting. 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. Angel in devil's shoes Salvation in the blues You never looked like an angel Angel of Harlem. -------- 1988 - Rattle and Hum -------- -------- Love Rescue Me -------- Love rescue me Come forth and speak to me Raise me up And don't let me fall. No man is my enemy My own hands imprison me. Love rescue me. 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. And the sun in the sky Makes a shadow of you and I Stretching out as the sun sinks in the sea. I'm here without a name In the palace of my shame I said, love, rescue me. In the cold mirror of a glass I see my reflection pass I see the dark shades of what I used to be. I see the purple of her eyes The scarlet of my lies. Love, rescue me. Yeah, though I walk In the valley of the shadow Yet, I will fear no evil. I have cursed thy rod and staff They no longer comfort me. Love, rescue me. Sha la la la etc. I said love, love, rescue me. Yeah, I'm here without a name In the palace of my shame I said 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. -------- 1988 - Rattle and Hum -------- -------- When Love Comes To Town -------- I was a sailor, I was lost at sea I was under the waves before love rescued me. I was a fighter, I could turn on a thread Now I stand accused of the things I've said. 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. Used to make love under a red sunset I was making promises I was soon to forget. She was pale as the lace of her wedding gown But I left her standing before love came to town. I ran into a juke-joint when I heard a guitar scream The notes were turning blue, I was dazed and in a dream. As the music played I saw my life turn around That was the day before love came to town. 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. 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. 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. -------- 1988 - Rattle and Hum -------- -------- Heartland -------- See the sunrise over her skin Don't change it. See the sunrise over her skin Dawn changes everything, everything. And the delta sun Burns bright and violent. Mississippi and the cotton wool heat Sixty-six - a highway speaks Of deserts dry Of cool green valleys Gold and silver veins All the shining cities In this heartland In this heartland In this heartland. Heaven knows This is a heartland. Heartland, our heartland. See the sunrise over her skin She feels like water in my hand Freeway, like a river Cuts through this land Into the side of love Like a burning spear And the poison rain Like dirty tears Through the ghostranch hills Death Valley waters In the towers of steel Belief goes on and on In this heartland In this heartland In this heartland Heaven knows This is a heartland. -------- 1988 - Rattle and Hum -------- -------- God Part II -------- 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. Don't believe in forced entry Don't believe in rape But every time she passes by Wild thoughts escape. Don't believe in Death Row Skid row or the gangs. Don't believe in the Uzi It just went off in my hands. I, I believe in love. Don't believe in cocaine Got a speedball in my head I could cut and crack you open Did you hear what I said? Don't believe them when they tell me There ain't no cure. The rich stay healthy The sick stay poor. I, I believe in love. Don't believe in Goldman His type like a curse Instant karma's gonna get him If I don't get him first. Don't believe that Rock 'n' Roll Can really change the world As it spins in revolution Yeah, it spirals and turns. I, I believe in love. Don't believe in the sixties The golden age of pop You glorify the past When the future dries up. Heard a singer on the radio Late last night Says he's gonna kick the darkness Till it bleeds daylight. I, I believe in love. Feel like I'm fallin' I'm spinnin' on a wheel It always stops beside a name A presence I can feel. I believe in love. Stop! -------- 1988 - Rattle and Hum -------- -------- The Star Spangled Banner -------- Instrumental -------- 1988 - Rattle and Hum -------- -------- All I Want Is You -------- 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. You say you'll give me a highway with no-one on it Treasure, just to look upon it All the riches in the night. You say you'll give me eyes in the moon of blindness A river in a time of dryness A harbour in the tempest. All the promises we make, from the cradle to the grave When all I need is you. You say you want your love to work out right To last with me through the night. You say you want diamonds on a ring of gold Your story to remain untold Your love not to grow cold. All the promises we break, from the cradle to the grave When all I want is you. -------- 1991 - Achtung Baby -------- -------- Zoo Station -------- I'm ready Ready for the laughing gas I'm ready Ready for what's next Ready to duck Ready to dive Ready to say I'm glad to be alive I'm ready Ready for the push In the cool of the night In the warmth of the breeze I'll be crawling around On my hands and knees She's just down the line ... Zoo Station Got to make it on time ... Zoo Station I'm ready Ready for the gridlock I'm ready To take it to the street Ready for the shuffle Ready for the deal Ready to let go Of the steering wheel I'm ready Ready for the crush Alright, alright, alright, alright, alright It's alright ... it's alright ... it's alright ... it's alright Hey baby ... hey baby ... hey baby ... hey baby ... It's alright It's alright Time is a train Makes the future the past Leaves you standing in the station Your face pressed up against the glass I'm just down the line from your love ... Zoo Station Under the sign of your love ... Zoo Station I'm gonna be there ... Zoo Station Tracing the line ... Zoo Station I'm gonna make it on time ... make it on time ... Zoo Station Just two stops down the line ... Zoo Station Just a stop down the line ... Zoo Station -------- 1991 - Achtung Baby -------- -------- Even Better Than The Real Thing -------- 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. (Check it out) You're the real thing Yeah the real thing You're the real thing Even better than the real thing. Give me one last chance, and I'm gonna make you sing Give me half a chance to ride on the waves that you bring You're honey child to a swarm of bees Gonna blow right through ya like a breeze Give me one last dance, we'll slide down the surface of things You're the real thing Yeah the real thing You're the real thing Even better than the real thing. We're free to fly the crimson sky The sun won't melt our wings tonight. Oh now, oh yeah, here she comes Take me higher, take me higher You take me higher, you take me higher. You're the real thing Yeah, you're the real thing. You're the real thing Even better than the real thing. Even better than the real thing. Even better than the real thing. -------- 1991 - Achtung Baby -------- -------- One -------- Is it getting better, or do you feel the same? Will it make it easier on you, now you got someone to blame? You say one love, one life, when it's one need in the night. One love, we get to share it Leaves you baby if you don't care for it. 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's too 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. One, one. -------- 1991 - Achtung Baby -------- -------- Until The End Of The World -------- Haven't seen you in quite a while I was down the hold, just passing time. Last time we met it was a low-lit room We were as close together as a bride and groom. We ate the food, we drank the wine Everybody having a good time except you. You were talking about the end of the world. I took the money, I spiked your drink You miss too much these days if you stop to think. You led me on with those innocent eyes And you know I love the element of surprise. In the garden I was playing the tart I kissed your lips and broke your heart. You, you were acting like it was the end of the world. 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. -------- 1991 - Achtung Baby -------- -------- Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses -------- You're dangerous, 'cos you're honest. You're dangerous, you don't know what you want. Well you left my heart empty as a vacant lot For any spirit to haunt. You're an accident waiting to happen You're a piece of glass left there on a beach. Well you tell me things I know you're not supposed to Then you leave me just out of reach. Who's gonna ride your wild horses? Who's gonna drown in your blue sea? Who's gonna ride your wild horses? Who's gonna fall at the foot of thee? Well you stole it 'cos I needed the cash And you killed it 'cos I needed revenge. Well you lied to me 'cos I asked you to. Baby, can we still be friends? Who's gonna ride your wild horses? Who's gonna drown in your blue sea? Who's gonna ride your wild horses? Who's gonna fall at the foot of thee? Ah, the deeper I spin Ah, the hunter will sin for your ivory skin. 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. Don't turn around your gypsy heart. Don't turn around, don't turn around again. Don't turn around, and don't look back. Come on now love, don't you look back. Who's gonna ride your wild horses? Who's gonna drown in your blue sea? Who's gonna taste your saltwater kisses? Who's gonna take the place of me? Who's gonna ride your wild horses? Who's gonna tame the heart of thee? -------- 1991 - Achtung Baby -------- -------- So Cruel -------- We crossed the line, who pushed who over? It doesn't matter to you, it matters to me. We're cut adrift, but still floating. I'm only hanging on to watch you go down, my love. I disappeared in you You disappeared from me. I gave you everything you ever wanted It wasn't what you wanted. The men who love you, you hate the most They pass right through you like a ghost. They look for you, but your spirit is in the air. Baby, you're nowhere. Oh, love, you say in love there are no rules. Oh, love, sweet-heart, you're so cruel. Desperation is a tender trap It gets you every time. You put your lips to her lips To stop the lie. Her skin is pale like God's only dove Screams like an angel for your love Then she makes you watch her from above And you need her like a drug. Oh, love, you say in love there are no rules. Oh, love, sweet-heart, you're so cruel. She wears my love like a see-through dress Her lips say one thing, her movements something else. Oh, love, like a screaming flower Love dying every hour. Ah, you don't know if it's fear or desire, Danger the drug that takes you higher? Head of heaven, fingers in the mire Her heart is racing you can't keep up. The night is bleeding like a cut Between the horses of love and lust we are trampled underfoot. Oh, love, to stay with you I'd be a fool. Oh, sweetheart, you're so cruel. -------- 1991 - Achtung Baby -------- -------- The Fly -------- It's no secret that the stars are falling from the sky It's no secret that our world is in darkness tonight. They say the sun is sometimes eclipsed by the moon Y' know I don't see you when she walks in the room. It's no secret that a friend is someone who lets you help. It's no secret that a liar won't believe anyone else. They say a secret is something you tell one other person So I'm telling you, child. Voice 1 Voice 2 A man will beg Love, we shine like a A man will crawl Burning star On the sheer face of love We're falling from Like a fly on a wall The sky... tonight It's no secret at all It's no secret that a conscience can sometimes be a pest. It's no secret ambition bites the nails of success. Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief; All kill their inspiration and sing about the grief. Voice 1 Voice 2 A man will rise Love, we shine like a A man will fall Burning star From the sheer face of love We're falling from like a fly from a wall. The sky... tonight It's no secret at all. Love, we shine like a burning star We're falling from the sky tonight Voice 1 Voice 2 A man will rise Love, we shine like a A man will fall Burning star From the sheer face of love We're falling from like a fly from a wall. The sky... tonight It's no secret at all. It's no secret that the stars are falling from the sky The universe exploding 'cos-a one man's lie. Look I gotta go, yeah, I'm running outta change; There's a lot of things if I could I'd rearrange. -------- 1991 - Achtung Baby -------- -------- Mysterious Ways -------- Johnny, take a walk with your sister the moon Let her pale light in, to fill up your room. You've been living underground, eating from a can You've been running away from what you don't understand. She's slippy, you're sliding down. She'll be there when you hit the ground. It's alright, it's alright, it's alright. She moves in mysterious ways. It's alright, it's alright, it's alright. She moves in mysterious ways, oh. 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! She's the wave, she turns the tide She sees the man inside the child. It's alright, it's alright, it's alright. She moves in mysterious ways. It's alright, it's alright, it's alright. She moves in mysterious ways, yeah, oh, ah. Lift my days, light up my nights, oh. One day you'll look back, and you'll see Where you were held now by this love. While you could stand there, You could move on this moment Follow this feeling. It's alright, it's alright, it's alright. She moves in mysterious ways. It's alright, it's alright, it's alright. She moves in mysterious ways. Move you, spirits move you Move, spirits 'its move you, oh yeah. Does it move you? She moves with it. Lift my days, and light up my nights, oh. -------- 1991 - Achtung Baby -------- -------- Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World -------- Six o'clock in the morning, you're the last to hear the warning You been tryin' to throw your arms around the world. You been falling off the sidewalk, your lips move but you can't talk Tryin' to throw your arms around the world. Gonna run to you, run to you, run to you; be still. Gonna run to you, run to you, woman, I will. Sunrise like a nose-bleed, your head hurts and you can't breathe You been tryin' to throw your arms around the world. How far are you gonna go before you lose your way back home You been tryin' to throw your arms around the world. Gonna run to you, run to you, run to you; be still. Gonna run to you, run to you, woman, I will. Yeah I dreamed that I saw Dali with a supermarket trolley He was tryin' to throw his arms around a girl. He took an open top beetle through the eye of a needle He was tryin' to throw his arms around the world. I'm gonna run to you, run to you, run to you, woman be still. I'm gonna run to you, run to you, run to you, woman, I will. Nothing much to say, I guess; just the same as all the rest Been tryin' to throw your arms round 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. Gonna run to you, run to you, run to you I'm gonna run to you, run to you, run to you I'm gonna run to you, run to you, run to you, woman be still Woman be still, woman be still, woman I will. -------- 1991 - Achtung Baby -------- -------- Ultraviolet (Light My Way) -------- Sometimes I feel like I don't know Sometimes I feel like checking out. I wanna get it wrong Can't always be strong And love, it won't be long. Oh, sugar, don't you cry. Oh, child, wipe the tears from your eyes. You know I need you to be strong And the day it is dark, as the night is long. Feel like trash, you make me feel clean. I'm in the black, can't see or be seen. Baby, baby, baby, light my way. Alright now, baby, baby, baby, light my way. 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. Oh, come on, baby, baby, baby, light my way. Oh, come on, baby, baby, baby, light my way Baby, baby, baby, light my way. I remember when we could sleep on stones. Now we lie together in whispers and moans. When I was all messed up and I heard opera in my head Your love was a light bulb hanging over my bed. Baby, baby, baby, light my way. Oh, come on, baby, baby, baby, light my way. -------- 1991 - Achtung Baby -------- -------- Acrobat -------- Don't believe what you hear, don't believe what you see If you just close your eyes you can feel the enemy. When I first met you girl, you had fire in your soul. What happened t'your face of melting snow Now it looks like this! And you can swallow or you can spit You can throw it up, or choke on it And you can dream, so dream out loud You know that your time is coming round So don't let the bastards grind you down. No, nothing makes sense, nothing seems to fit. I know you'd hit out if you only knew who to hit. And I'd join the movement If there was one I could believe in Yeah, I'd break bread and wine If there was a church I could receive in. 'Cause I need it now. To take the cup To fill it up, to drink it slow. I can't let you go. And I must be an acrobat To talk like this and act like that. And you can dream, so dream out loud And don't let the bastards grind you down. What are we going to do now it's all been said? No new ideas in the house, and every book's been read. And I must be an acrobat To talk like this and act like that. And you can dream, so dream out loud And you can find your own way out. And you can build, and I can will And you can call, I can't wait until You can stash and you can seize In dreams begin responsibilities And I can love, and I can love And I know that the tide is turning 'round So don't let the bastards grind you down. -------- 1991 - Achtung Baby -------- -------- Love Is Blindness -------- Love is blindness, I don't want to see Won't you wrap the night around me? Oh, my heart, love is blindness. In a parked car, in a crowded street You see your love made complete. Thread is ripping, the knot is slipping Love is blindness. Love is clockworks and cold steel Fingers too numb to feel. Squeeze the handle, blow out the candle Love is blindness. Love is blindness, I don't want to see Won't you wrap the night around me? Oh, my love, Blindness. A little death without mourning No call and no warning Baby, a dangerous idea That almost makes sense. Love is drowning in a deep well All the secrets, and no one to tell. Take the money, honey... Blindness. Love is blindness, I don't want to see Won't you wrap the night around me? Oh, my love, Blindness. -------- 1993 - Zooropa -------- -------- Zooropa -------- Zooropa... Vorsprung durch Technik Zooropa... be all that you can be Be a winner Eat to get slimmer Zooropa... a bluer kind of white Zooropa... it could be yours tonight We're mild and green And squeaky clean Zooropa... better by design Zooropa... fly the friendly skies Through appliance of science We've got that ring of confidence... And I have no compass And I have no map And I have no reasons No reasons to get back And I have no religion And I don't know what's what And I don't know the limit The limit of what we've got Zooropa... Don't worry baby, it'll be alright Zooropa... You got the right shoes Zooropa... To get you through the night Zooropa... It's cold outside, but brightly lit Zooropa... Skip the subway Zooropa... Let's go to the overground Get your head out of the mud baby Put flowers in the mud baby Overground No particular place names No particular song I've been hiding What am I hiding from? Zooropa... Don't worry baby, it's gonna be alright Zooropa... Uncertainty... can be a guiding light Zooropa... I hear voices, ridiculous voices Zooropa... In the slipstream Zooropa... Let's go, let's go... overground Zooropa... Take your head out of the mud baby She's gonna dream up The world she wants to live in She's gonna dream out loud -------- 1993 - Zooropa -------- -------- Babyface -------- Catching your bright blue eyes in the freeze frame I've seen them so many times I feel like I must be your best friend. You're looking fine, so fine Dressed up like a lovely day. Babyface, Babyface Slow down child, let me untie your lace. Babyface, Babyface Cover girl with natural grace. How could beauty be so kind To an ordinary guy? Comin' home late at night to turn you on Checkin' out every frame, I've got slow motion on my side. Turnin' around and around With the sound and colour under my control Round and around, goin' down, Dressed up like a lovely day. Babyface, Babyface Slow down child, let me untie your lace Babyface, Babyface Tinfoil hair all tied up in lace Babyface, Babyface Bitter-sweet girl, won't you give me a taste How could beauty be so kind To an ordinary guy? Babyface, Babyface Slow down child, let me untie your lace. Babyface, Babyface Open that door, let me unpack my case. Babyface, Babyface You're everywhere, child, you're all over the place. Babyface, Babyface You're comin' to me from outer space. How could beauty be so kind To an ordinary guy? -------- 1993 - Zooropa -------- -------- Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me -------- You don't know how you took it You just know what you got Oh lawdy, you been stealing from the thieves And you got caught In the headlights of a stretch car, You're a star. Dressing like your sister Living like a tart If they don't know what you're doin' Babe it must be art, You're a headache, in a suitcase You're a star. Oh, no, don't be shy You don't have to go blind, Hold me Thrill me Kiss me Kill me. You don't know how you got here You just know you want out Believing in yourself almost as much as you doubt, You're a big smash You wear it like a rash Star. Oh no, don't be shy You need a crowd to cry, Hold me Thrill me Kiss me Kill me. They want you to be Jesus They'll got down on one knee But they'll want their money back If you're alive at thirty-three, And you're turning tricks With your crucifix. You're a star, oh child Of course you're not shy You don't have to deny love, Hold me Thrill me Kiss me Kill me. -------- 1993 - Zooropa -------- -------- Lemon -------- Lemon, see-through in the sunlight. She wore lemon, see-through in the daylight. She's gonna make you cry, she's gonna make you whisper and moan. When you're dry she draws water from a stone. I feel like I'm slowly, slowly, slowly slippin' under. I feel like I'm holding on to nothing. She wore lemon to colour in the cold grey night. She had heaven and she held on so tight. A man makes a picture, a moving picture through the light projected, he can see himself up close. A man captures colour, a man likes to stare. He turns his money into light to look for her. And I feel like I'm drifting, drifting, drifting from the shore. And I feel like I'm swimming out to her. Midnight is where the day begins. Midnight is where the day begins. Lemon, see-through in the sunlight. A man builds a city, with banks and cathedrals. A man melts the sand so he can see the world outside. A man makes a car, and builds a road to run (them) on. A man dreams of leaving, but he always stays behind. You're gonna meet her there She's your destination You gotta get to her She's imagination And these are the days when our work has come asunder. And these are the days when we look for something other. Midnight is where the day begins. Midnight is where the day begins. Midnight is where the day begins. Midnight is where the day begins. A man makes a picture, a moving picture; Through light projected, he can see himself up close. A man captures colour, a man likes to stare. He turns his money into light to look for her. Gotta meet her there She's your destination There's no sleeping there She's imagination She is the dreamer, she's imagination. Through the light projected, he can see himself up close. -------- 1993 - Zooropa -------- -------- Stay (Faraway, So Close!) -------- Green light, Seven Eleven, You stop in for a pack of cigarettes. You don't smoke, don't even want to. Hey now, check your change. Dressed up like a car crash Your wheels are turnin' but you're upside down. You say when he hits you, you don't mind Because when he hurts you, you feel alive. Oh, is that what it is? Red lights, grey morning You stumble out of a hole in the ground. A vampire or a victim It depends on who's around. You used to stay in to watch the adverts You could lip synch. to the talk shows. And if you look, you look through me And when you talk, you talk at me And when I touch you, you don't feel a thing. If I could stay, then the night would give you up. Stay, and the day would keep its trust. Stay, and the night would be enough. Faraway, so close Up with the static and the radio. With satellite television You can go anywhere: Miami, New Orleans London, Belfast and Berlin. And, if you listen, I can't call. And, if you jump, you just might fall. And, if you shout, I'll only hear you. If I could stay, then the night would give you up. Stay, and the day would keep its trust. Stay with the demons you drowned. Stay with the spirit I found. Stay, and the night would be enough. Three o'clock in the morning It's quiet, there's no one around, Just the bang and the clatter As an angel runs to ground. Just the bang and the clatter As an angel hits the ground. -------- 1993 - Zooropa -------- -------- Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car -------- You're a precious stone, you're out on your own. You know everyone in the world, but you feel alone. Daddy won't let you weep, Daddy won't let you ache Daddy gives you as much as you can take. Aha, sha-la. Aha sha-la. Daddy's gonna pay for your crashed car. A little uptight, you're a baby's fist Butterfly kisses up an' down your wrist. When you see Daddy comin', you're lickin' your lips Nails bitten down to the quick. Aha, sha-la. Aha sha-la. Daddy's gonna pay for your crashed car. Daddy's gonna pay for your crashed car. You've got a head full of traffic, you're a siren's song. You cry for Mama, and Daddy's right along. He gives you the keys to a flamin' car. Daddy's with you wherever you are. Daddy's a comfort, Daddy's your best friend Daddy'll hold your hand right up to the end. Aha, sha-la. Aha sha-la. Daddy's gonna pay for your crashed car. Daddy's gonna pay for your crashed car. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday's alright. -------- 1993 - Zooropa -------- -------- Some Days Are Better Than Others -------- Some days are dry, some days are leaky Some days come clean, other days are sneaky. Some days take less, but most days take more Some slip through your fingers and on to the floor. Some days you're quick, but most days you're speedy Some days you use more force than is necessary. Some days just drop in on us. Some days are better than others. Some days it all adds up And what you've got is enough. Some days are better than others. Some days are slippy, other days are sloppy; Some days you can't stand the sight of a puppy. Your skin is white, but you think you're a brother. Some days are better than others. Some days you wake up with her complaining. Some sunny days you wish it was raining. Some days are sulky, some days have a grin; And some days have bouncers and won't let you in. Some days you hear a voice Taking you to another place. Some days are better than others. Some days are honest, some days are not; Some days you're thankful for what you've got. Some days you wake up in the army And some days it's the enemy. Some days are work, most days you're lazy; Some days you feel like a bit of a baby Lookin' for Jesus and his mother. Some days are better than others. Some days you feel ahead; You're making sense of what she said. Some days are better than others. Some days I hear a voice taking me to another place. Some days are better then others. -------- 1993 - Zooropa -------- -------- The First Time -------- I have a lover, a lover like no other She got soul, soul, soul, sweet soul And she teach me how to sing. Shows me colours when there's none to see Gives me hope when I can't believe That for the first time I feel love. I have a brother, when I'm a brother in need I spend my whole time running He spends his running after me. I feel myself goin' down I just call and he comes around. But for the first time I feel love. My father is a rich man, he wears a rich man's cloak. He gave me the keys to his kingdom (coming) Gave me a cup of gold. He said "I have many mansions And there are many rooms to see." But I left by the back door And I threw away the key And I threw away the key. For the first time, for the first time For the first time, I feel love. -------- 1993 - Zooropa -------- -------- Dirty Day -------- I don't know you, you don't know the half of it. I had a starring role. I was the bad guy who walked out. They say be careful where you aim Because where you aim you might just hit. You can hold onto something so tight You've already lost it. Dragging me down, that's not the way it used to be. You can't even remember what I'm trying to forget. It was a dirty day, dirty day. Looking for explanations I don't even understand. If you need someone to blame, throw a rock in the air, you'll hit someone guilty. From father to son, in one life has begun A work that's never done, father to son. (Love, it won't last kissin' time). (Love, it won't last kissin' time). (Love, it won't last kissin' time). Get it right, there's no blood thicker than ink. Hear what I say, nothing's as simple as you think. Wake up, some things you can't get around I'm in you, more so when they put me in the ground. The days, days, days run away like horses over the hill. -------- 1993 - Zooropa -------- -------- The Wanderer -------- I went out walking through streets paved with gold Lifted some stones, saw the skin and bones Of a city without a soul I went out walking under an atomic sky Where the ground won't turn and the rain it burns Like the tears when I said goodbye. Yeah, I went with nothing, nothing but the thought of you. I went wandering. I went drifting through the capitals of tin Where men can't walk or freely talk And sons turn their fathers in. I stopped outside a church house Where the citizens like to sit. They say they want the kingdom But they don't want God in it. I went out riding down that old eight-lane I passed a thousand signs looking for my own name. I went with nothing but the thought you'd be there too, Looking for you. I went out there in search of experience To taste and to touch and to feel as much As a man can before he repents. I went out searching, looking for one good man A spirit who would not bend or break Who would sit at his father's right hand. I went out walking with a bible and a gun The word of God lay heavy on my heart I was sure I was the one. Now Jesus, don't you wait up, Jesus I'll be home soon. Yeah, I went out for the papers, told her I'd be back by noon. Yeah, I left with nothing but the thought you'd be there too Looking for you. Yeah, I went with nothing, nothing but the thought of you. I went wandering. -------- 1997 - Pop -------- -------- Discotheque -------- You can reach, but you can't grab it. You can't hold it, control it You can't bag it. You can push, but you can't direct it Circulate, regulate, oh no You cannot connect it - love. You know you're chewing bubble gum You know what that is but you still want some. You just can't get enough of that lovey-dovey stuff You get confused, but you know it Yeah, you hurt for it, work for it, love You don't always show it - love. Let go, let's go, discotheque. Go, go, let go, discotheque. Looking for the one But you know you're somewhere else instead. You want to be the song The song that you hear in your head Love, love, love, love. It's not a trick, you can't learn it It's the way that you don't pay that's okay 'Cause you can't earn it - love You know you're chewing bubble gum You know what that is But you still want some You just can't get enough of that lovey-dovey stuff Let go, let's go, discotheque. Go, go, go, go, discotheque. Looking for the one But you know you're somewhere else instead. You want to be the song The song that you hear in your head Love, love, love. But you take what you can get 'Cause it's all that you can find. Oh you know there's something more But tonight, tonight, tonight. Boom cha, boom cha, discotheque. -------- 1997 - Pop -------- -------- Do You Feel Loved -------- Take these hands, they're good for nothing You know these hands never worked a day Take these boots they're going nowhere You know these boots don't want to stray. You got my head filled with songs You got my shoelaces undone. Take my shirt, go on, take it off me You can tear it up if you can tie me down. Do you feel loved? Do you feel loved? Do you feel loved? Take the colours of my imagination Take the scent hanging in the air Take this tangle of a conversation Turn it into your own prayer. With my fingers as you want them With my nails under your hide With my teeth at your back And my tongue to tell you the sweetest lies. Do you feel loved? Do you feel loved? And it looks like the sun But it feels like the rain, oh. Love's a bully, pushing and shoving In the belly of a woman. Heavy rhythm taking over To stick together a man and a woman Stick together man and a woman Stick together. Do you feel loved? Do you feel loved? And it looks like the sun But it feels like rain And there's heat in the sun To see us through the rain. Do you feel loved? Do you feel loved? Do you feel loved? Do you feel loved? -------- 1997 - Pop -------- -------- Mofo -------- Lookin' for to save my, save my soul Lookin' in the places where no flowers grow. Lookin' for to fill that God-shaped hole Mother, mother-suckin' rock an'roll. Holy dunc, space junk comin' in for the splash White dopes on punk staring into the flash. Lookin' for the baby Jesus under the trash Mother, mother-suckin' rock an' roll. Mother. (scat singing) Mother, am I still your son? You know I've waited for so long To hear you say so. Mother, you left and made me someone. Now I'm still a child, but no one tells me no. Lookin' for a sound that's gonna drown out the world. Lookin' for the father of my two little girls. Got the swing, got the sway, got my straw in lemonade. Still lookin' for the face I had before the world was made. Mother, mother-suckin' rock an' roll Soothe me, mother Rule me, father Move me, brother Woo me, sister. Soothe me, mother Rule me, father Show me, mother Show me, mother. Show me, mother Show me, mother Show me, mother Show me, mother. -------- 1997 - Pop -------- -------- If God Will Send His Angels -------- Nobody else here baby No-one else here to blame No-one to point the finger It's just you and me and the rain. Nobody made you do it No one put words in your mouth. Nobody here taking orders When love took a train heading south. It's the blind leading the blond It's the stuff, it's the stuff of country songs. Hey, if God will send his angels And if God will send a sign And if God will send his angels Would everything be alright? God's got his phone off the hook, babe Would he even pick up if he could? It's been a while since we saw that child Hangin' round this neighbourhood. See his mother dealing in a doorway See Father Christmas with a begging bowl. And Jesus' sister's eyes are a blister The High Street never looked so low. 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. If God will send his angels And if God will send a sign Well if God will send his angels Where do we go? Where do we go? 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 Well, if God will send his angels... Where do we go? Where do we go? -------- 1997 - Pop -------- -------- Staring At The Sun -------- Summer stretching on the grass Summer dresses pass In the shade of a willow tree Creeps a-crawling over me Over me and over you Stuck together with God's glue It's gonna get stickier too. It's been a long hot summer Let's get under cover Don't try too hard to think Don't think at all. I'm not the only one Staring at the sun Afraid of what you'd find If you take a look inside. Not just deaf and dumb I'm staring at the sun Not the only one Who's happy to go blind. There's an insect in your ear If you scratch it won't disappear. It's gonna itch and burn and sting Do you wanna see what the scratching brings! Waves that leave me out of reach Breaking on your back like a beach. Will we ever live in peace? 'Cause those that can't do often have to And those that can't do often have to preach To the ones staring at the sun Afraid of what you'll find if you took a look inside. Not just deaf and dumb, staring at the sun I'm not the only one who'd rather go blind. Intransigence in all around Military's still in town Armour plated suits and ties Daddy just won't say goodbye Referee won't blow the whistle. God is good but will he listen? I'm nearly great but there's something missing. I left it in the duty free, Oh, though you never really belonged to me. You're not the only one staring at the sun Afraid of what you'd find if you stepped back inside. I'm not sucking my thumb, staring at the sun Not the only one who's happy to go blind. -------- 1997 - Pop -------- -------- Last Night On Earth -------- 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. You gotta give it away You gotta give it away You gotta give it away Give it away You gotta give it away You gotta give it away Well she don't care what it's worth She's living like it's the last night on earth The last night on earth. She's not waiting on a saviour to come She's at the bus stop With the News Of The World And the sun, sun, here it comes. She's not waiting for anyone. You gotta give it away You gotta give it away You gotta give it away Give it away. You gotta give it away You gotta give it away Well she don't care what it's worth She's living like it's the last night on earth The last night on earth. Slipping away, slip, slide Too many slipping away. The world turns and we get dizzy Slipping away. She's living She's living next week now. You know she's gonna pay you back somehow. She hasn't been to bed in a week She'll be dead soon, then she'll sleep. You gotta give it away You gotta give it away Give it away You gotta give it away You gotta give it away She already knows it hurts She's living like it the last night on earth The last night on earth Last night on earth Last night. -------- 1997 - Pop -------- -------- Gone -------- You get to feel so guilty Got so much for so little The you find that feeling just won't go away. You're holding on to every little thing so tightly Till there's nothing left for you anyway. Goodbye, you can keep this suit of lights I'll be up with the sun I'm not coming down I'm not coming down I'm not coming down. You wanted to get somewhere so badly You had to lose yourself along the way. You changed your name Well that's okay, it's necessary And what you leave behind you don't miss anyway. Goodbye, you can keep this suit of lights I'll be up with the sun I'm not coming down I'm not coming down I'm not coming down. 'Cause I'm already gone Felt that way all along. Closer to you every day I didn't want it that much anyway. You're taking steps that make you feel dizzy Then you learn to like the way it feels. You hurt yourself, you hurt your lover Then you discover What you thought was freedom is just greed. Goodbye, and it's an emotional Goodnight, I'll be up with the sun. Are you still holding on? I'm not coming down I'm not coming down I'm not coming down. -------- 1997 - Pop -------- -------- Miami -------- Weather 'round here choppin' and changin' Surgery in the air Print shirts and southern accents Cigars and big hair. We got the wheels, petrol's cheap We only went there for a week Got the sun, got the sand Got the batteries and the handicam. Her eyes all swimming pool blue Dumb-bells on the diving board Baby's always attracted to The things she's afraid of. Big girl with a sweet tooth watches Skinny girl in the photo shoot. Freshmen, squeaky-clean she tastes of chlorine. Miami, my mammy. Love the movies, babe Love to walk through movie sets Get to shoot someone in the foot Get to smoke some cigarettes. No big deal, we know the score Just back from the video store. Got the car and the car chase. What's he got inside that case? I want a close-up of that face. Here comes the car chase. I bought two new suits Miami Pink and blue Miami I took a picture of you My mammy Getting hot in a photo booth Miami. I said you looked like a madonna. You said maybe. You said I wanna have your baby, baby. We could make something beautiful Something that wouldn't be a problem We could make something beautiful Something that wouldn't be a problem Least not in Miami. You know, some places are like your auntie But there's no place like Miami My mammy Miami My mammy. -------- 1997 - Pop -------- -------- The Playboy Mansion -------- If coke is a mystery Michael Jackson, history If beauty is truth And surgery the fountain of youth... What am I to do? Have I got the gifts to get me through The gates of that mansion? If O.J. is more than a drink And a Big Mac bigger than you think And perfume is an obsession And talk shows confession What have we got to lose? Another push and we'll be through The gates of that mansion. I never bought a lotto ticket I never parked in anyone's space. The banks they're like cathedrals I guess casinos took their place. Love, come on down Don't wake her she'll come around. Chance is a kind of religion Where you're damned for plain hard luck. I never did see that movie I never did read that book. Love, come on down Let my numbers come around. Don't know if I can hold on Don't know if I'm that strong. Don't know if I can wait that long Till the colours come flashing And the lights go on. Then will there be no time for sorrow Then will there be no time for shame Though I can't say why I know I've got to believe. We'll go driving in that pool It's who you know that gets you through The gates of the playboy mansion. Then will there be no time for sorrow Then will there be no time for shame Then will there be now time for shame Then will there be now time for pain -------- 1997 - Pop -------- -------- If You Wear That Velvet Dress -------- Tonight, the moon is playing tricks again I'm feeling seasick again. The whole world could just dissolve Into a glass of water. I've been good, 'cause I know you don't want me to. Do you really want me to be blue as you? It's her daylight that gets me through. We've been here before Last time you scratched at my door The moon was naked and cold I was like a two-year-old Who just wanted more. If you wear that velvet dress. If you wear that velvet dress. Tonight, the moon's drawn its curtains It's a private show No-one else gonna know I'm wanting. Sunlight, sunlight fills my room It's sharp and it's clear But nothing at all like the moon. It's okay The struggle for things not to say I never listened to you anyway And I got my own hands to pray. But if you wear that velvet dress. If you wear that velvet dress. Tonight the moon is a mirror-ball Light flickers from across the hall Who'll catch the star when it falls. If you wear that velvet dress. -------- 1997 - Pop -------- -------- Please -------- So you never knew love Until you crossed the line of grace. And you never felt wanted Till you'd someone slap your face. So you never felt alive Until you'd almost wasted away. You had to win, you couldn't just pass The smartest ass at the top of the class Your flying colours, your family tree And all your lessons in history. Please, please, please Get up off your knees. Please, please, please, please, oh yeah. And you never knew how low you'd stoop To make that call And you never knew what was on the ground Till they made you crawl. So you never knew that the heaven You keep you stole. Your Catholic blues, your convent shoes, Your stick-on tattoos now they're making the news Your holy war, your northern star Your sermon on the mount from the boot of your car. Please, please, please Get up off your knees. Please, please, please Leave me out of this, please. So love is hard And love is tough But love is not What you're thinking of. September, streets capsizing Spilling over down the drains Shard of glass, splinters like rain But you could only feel your own pain. October, talk getting nowhere. November, December; remember We just started again. Please, please, please Get up off your knees, yeah. Please, please, please, please, ah. So love is big Is bigger than us. But love is not What you're thinking of. It's what lovers deal It's what lovers steal You know I've found it Hard to receive 'Cause you, my love I could never believe. -------- 1997 - Pop -------- -------- Wake Up Dead Man -------- Jesus, Jesus help me I'm alone in this world And a fucked-up world it is too. Tell me, tell me the story The one about eternity And the way it's all gonna be. Wake up, wake up dead man Wake up, wake up dead man. Jesus, I'm waiting here, boss I know you're looking out for us But maybe your hands aren't free. Your Father, He made the world in seven He's in charge of heaven. Will you put a word in for me? Wake up, wake up dead man Wake up, wake up dead man. Listen to the words they'll tell you what to do Listen over the rhythm that's confusing you Listen to the reed in the saxophone Listen over the hum of the radio Listen over the sound of blades in rotation Listen through the traffic and circulation Listen as hope and peace try to rhyme Listen over marching bands playing out their time. Wake up, wake up dead man Wake up, wake up dead man. Jesus, were you just around the corner? Did you think to try and warn her? Were you working on something new? If there's an order in all of this disorder Is it like a tape recorder? Can we rewind it just once more? Wake up, wake up dead man Wake up, wake up dead man. Wake up, wake up dead man. -------- 2000 - All That You Can't Leave Behind -------- -------- Beautiful Day -------- The heart is a bloom, shoots up through stony ground But there's no room, no space to rent in this town You're out of luck and the reason that you had to care, The traffic is stuck and you're not moving anywhere. You thought you'd found a friend to take you out of this place Someone you could lend a hand in return for grace It's a beautiful day, the sky falls And you feel like it's a beautiful 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 It's a beautiful day Don't let it get away It's a beautiful day Don't let it get away Touch me, take me to that other place Teach me, I know I'm not a hopeless case See the world in green and blue See China right in front of you See the canyons broken by cloud See the tuna fleets clearing the sea out See the bedouin fires at night See the oil fields at first light See the bird with a leaf in her mouth After the flood all the colours came out It was a beautiful day A beautiful day Don't let it get away Touch me, take me to that other place Reach me, I know I'm not a hopeless case What you don't have you don't need it now What you don't know you can feel it somehow What you don't have you don't need it now You don't need it now, you don't need it now Beautiful day -------- 2000 - All That You Can't Leave Behind -------- -------- Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of -------- 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 I never thought you were a fool But darling, look at you You gotta stand up straight, carry your own weight These tears are going nowhere, baby 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 I will not forsake, the colours that you bring But the nights you filled with fireworks They left you with nothing I am still enchanted by the light you brought to me I still listen through your ears, and through your eyes I can see And you are such a fool To worry like you do I know it's tough, and you can never get enough Of what you don't really need now... my oh my You've got to get yourself together You've got stuck in a moment and now you can't get out of it Oh love look at you now You've got yourself stuck in a moment and now you can't get out of it I was unconscious, half asleep The water is warm till you discover how deep... I wasn't jumping... for me it was a fall It's a long way down to nothing at all 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 And if the night runs over And if the day won't last And if our way should falter Along the stony pass And if the night runs over And if the day won't last And if your way should falter Along the stony pass It's just a moment This time will pass -------- 2000 - All That You Can't Leave Behind -------- -------- Elevation -------- 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 I've lost all self-control Been living like a mole Now going down, excavation I and I in the sky You make me feel like I can fly So high, elevation A star lit up like a cigar Strung out like a guitar Maybe you could educate my mind Explain all these controls I can't sing but I've got soul The goal is elevation A mole, living in a hole Digging up my soul Going down, excavation I and I in the sky You make me feel like I can fly So high, elevation Love, lift me out of these blues Won't you tell me something true I believe in you A mole, living in a hole Digging up my soul Going down, excavation I and I in the sky You make me feel like I can fly So high, elevation Elevation... Elevation... Elevation... Elevation... Elevation... Elevation... -------- 2000 - All That You Can't Leave Behind -------- -------- Walk On -------- And love is not the easy thing The only baggage you can bring... And love is not the easy thing.... The only baggage you can bring Is all that you can't leave behind And if the darkness is to keep us apart And if the daylight feels like it's a long way off And if your glass heart should crack And for a second you turn back Oh no, be strong 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 You're packing a suitcase for a place none of us has been A place that has to be believed to be seen You could have flown away A singing bird in an open cage Who will only fly, only fly for freedom Walk on, walk on What you've got they can't deny it Can't sell it, can't buy it Walk on, walk on Stay safe tonight And I know it aches And your heart it breaks And you can only take so much Walk on, walk on Home, hard to know what it is if you've never had one Home, I can't say where it is but I know I'm going home That's where the hurt is I know it aches How your heart it breaks And you can only take so much Walk on, walk on 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. -------- 2000 - All That You Can't Leave Behind -------- -------- Kite -------- Something is about to give I can feel it coming I think I know what it is I'm not afraid to die I'm not afraid to live And when I'm flat on my back I hope to feel like I did Cause hardness, it sets in You need some protection The thinner the skin I want you to know That you don't need me anymore I want you to know You don't need anyone, anything at all Who's to say where the wind will take you Who's to know what it is will break you I don't know which way the wind will blow Who's to know when the time has come around Don't wanna see you cry I know that this is not goodbye In summer I can taste the salt in the sea There's a kite blowing out of control on a breeze I wonder what's gonna happen to you You wonder what has happened to me I'm a man, I'm not a child A man who sees The shadow behind your eyes Who's to say where the wind will take you Who's to know what it is will break you I don't know where the wind will blow Who's to know when the time has come around I don't wanna see you cry I know that this is not goodbye Did I waste it? Not so much I couldn't taste it Life should be fragrant Roof top to the basement The last of the rock stars When hip hop drove the big cars In the time when new media Was the big idea That was the big idea -------- 2000 - All That You Can't Leave Behind -------- -------- In A Little While -------- In a little while Surely you'll be mine In a little while... I'll be there In a little while This hurt will hurt no more I'll be home, love When the night takes a deep breath And the daylight has no air If I crawl, if I come crawling home Will you be there? In a little while I won't be blown by every breeze Friday night running to Sunday on my knees That girl, that girl she's mine Well I've known her since, Since she was A little girl with Spanish eyes When I saw her first in a pram they pushed her by Oh my, my how you've grown Well it's been, it's been... a little while ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh Slow down my beating heart A man dreams one day to fly A man takes a rocket ship into the skies He lives on a star that's dying in the night And follows in the trail, the scatter of light Turn it on, turn it on, you turn me on Slow down my beating heart Slowly, slowly love Slow down my beating heart Slowly, slowly love Slow down my beating heart Slowly, slowly love -------- 2000 - All That You Can't Leave Behind -------- -------- Wild Honey -------- In the days When we were swinging from the trees I was a monkey Stealing honey from a swarm of bees I could taste I could taste you even then And I would chase you down the wind You could go there if you please Wild honey And if you go there, go with me Wild honey Did I know you? Did I know you even then? Before the clocks kept time Before the world was made From the cruel sun You were shelter You were my shelter and my shade If you go there with me Wild honey You can do just what you please Wild honey Yeah, just blowing in the breeze Wild honey Wild, wild, wild I'm still standing, I'm still standing Where you left me Are you still growing wild With everything tame around you? I send you flowers Cut flowers for your hall I know your garden's full But is there sweetness at all? oh oh oh If you go there with me Wild honey Won't you take me, take me please Wild honey Yeah, swinging through the trees Wild honey Wild, wild, wild -------- 2000 - All That You Can't Leave Behind -------- -------- Peace On Earth -------- Heaven on Earth We need it now I'm sick of all of this Hanging around Sick of sorrow Sick of pain Sick of hearing again and again That there's gonna be Peace on Earth Where I grew up There weren't many trees Where there was we'd tear them down And use them on our enemies They say that what you mock Will surely overtake you And you become a monster So the monster will not break you It's already gone too far Who said that if you go in hard You won't get hurt Jesus could you take the time To throw a drowning man a line Peace on Earth Tell the ones who hear no sound Whose sons are living in the ground Peace on Earth No whos or whys No-one cries like a mother cries For peace on Earth She never got to say goodbye To see the colour in his eyes Now he's in the dirt Peace on Earth They're reading names out over the radio All the folks the rest of us won't get to know Sean and Julia, Gareth, Ann and Breda Their lives are bigger, than any big idea Jesus can you take the time To throw a drowning man a line Peace on Earth To tell the ones who hear no sound Whose sons are living in the ground Peace on Earth Jesus this song you wrote The words are sticking in my throat Peace on Earth Hear it every Christmas time But hope and history won't rhyme So what's it worth? This peace on Earth Peace on Earth Peace on Earth Peace on Earth -------- 2000 - All That You Can't Leave Behind -------- -------- When I Look At The World -------- When you look at the world What is it that you see? People find all kinds of things That bring them to their knees I see an expression So clear and so true That it changes the atmosphere When you walk into the room So I try to be like you Try to feel it like you do But without you it's no use I can't see what you see When I look at the world When the night is someone elses And you're trying to get some sleep When your thoughts are too expensive To ever want to keep When there's all kinds of chaos And everyone is walking lame You don't even blink now, do you Or even look away So I try to be like you Try to feel it like you do But without you it's no use I can't see what you see When I look at the world I can't wait any longer I can't wait till I'm stronger Can't wait any longer To see what you see When I look at the world I'm in the waiting room Can't see for the smoke I think of you and your holy book While the rest of us choke Tell me, tell me, what do you see? Tell me, tell me, what's wrong with me -------- 2000 - All That You Can't Leave Behind -------- -------- New York -------- In New York freedom looks like too many choices In New York I found a friend to drown out the other voices Voices on the cell phone Voices from home Voices of the hard sell Voices down the stairwell In New York, just got a place in New York In New York summers get hot, well into the hundreds You can't walk around the block without a change of clothing Hot as a hairdryer in your face Hot as a handbag and a can of mace In New York, I just got a place in New York New York, New York In New York you can forget, forget how to sit still Tell yourself you will stay in But it's down to Alphaville New York, New York, New York New York, New York, New York The Irish have been coming here for years Feel like they own the place They got the airport, city hall, concrete, asphalt, they even got the police Irish, Italian, Jews and Hispanics Religious nuts, political fanatics in the stew, Living happily not like me and you That's where I lost you... NewYork New York, New York New York, New York In New York I lost it all to you and your vices Still I'm staying on to figure out my mid life crisis I hit an iceberg in my life But you know I'm still afloat You lose your balance, lose your wife In the queue for the lifeboat You got to put the women and children first But you've got an unquenchable thirst for New York New York, New York New York, New York In the stillness of the evening When the sun has had its day I heard your voice a-whispering Come away child New York, New York -------- 2000 - All That You Can't Leave Behind -------- -------- Grace -------- Grace, she takes the blame She covers the shame Removes the stain It could be her name Grace, it's the name for a girl It's also a thought that changed the world And when she walks on the street You can hear the strings Grace finds goodness in everything Grace, she's got the walk Not on a ramp or on chalk She's got the time to talk She travels outside of karma She travels outside of karma When she goes to work You can hear her strings Grace finds beauty in everything Grace, she carries a world on her hips No champagne flute for her lips No twirls or skips between her fingertips She carries a pearl in perfect condition What once was hurt What once was friction What left a mark No longer stings Because Grace makes beauty Out of ugly things Grace makes beauty out of ugly things -------- 2000 - All That You Can't Leave Behind -------- -------- The Ground Beneath Her Feet (UK only) -------- All my life, I worshipped her Her golden voice, her beauty's beat How she made us feel How she made me real And the ground beneath her feet And the ground beneath her feet And now I can't be sure of anything Black is white, and cold is heat For what I worshipped stole my love away It was the ground beneath her feet It was the ground beneath her feet Go lightly down your darkened way Go lightly underground I'll be down there in another day I won't rest until you're found Let me love you true, let me rescue you Let me lead you to where two roads meet O come back above Where there's only love And the ground beneath her feet And the ground beneath her feet -------- 2004 - How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb -------- -------- Vertigo -------- Unos dos tres catorce! 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 night is full of holes As bullets rip the sky Of ink with gold They twinkle as the Boys play rock and roll They know they can't dance At least they know. I can't stand the beats I'm asking for the cheque The girl with crimson nails Has Jesus round her neck Swinging to the music Swinging to the music Oh oh oh oh Hello hello I'm at a place called Vertigo It's everything I wish I didn't know But you give me something I can feel, feel Check mated Oh yeah Hours of fun All of this, all of this can be yours All of this, all of this can be yours All of this, all of this can be yours Just give me what I want and no-one gets hurt. Hello hello We're at a place called Vertigo Lights go down and all I know Is that you give me something I can feel your love teaching me how Your love is teaching me how, how to kneel Yeah yeah yeah yeah -------- 2004 - How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb -------- -------- Miracle Drug -------- I want to trip inside your head Spend the day there To hear the things you haven't said And see what you might see I want to hear you when you call Do you feel anything at all? I want to see your thoughts take shape And walk right out Freedom has a scent Like the top of a new born baby's head 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 I am you and you are mine Love makes nonsense of space And time, will disappear Love and logic keep us clear Reason is on our side, love The songs are in your eyes I see them when you smile I've had enough of romantic love I'd give it up, yeah, I'd give it up For a miracle, a miracle drug, a miracle drug God I need your help tonight Beneath the noise Below the din I hear a voice It's whispering In science and in medicine I was a stranger You took me in The songs are in your eyes I see them when you smile I've had enough of romantic love I'd give it up, yeah, I'd give it up For a miracle, miracle drug Miracle, miracle drug -------- 2004 - How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb -------- -------- Sometimes You Can't Make it On Your Own -------- 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 Listen to me now I need to let you know You don't have to go it alone And it's you when I look in the mirror And it's you when I don't pick up the phone Sometimes you can't make it on your own We fight all the time You and I, that's alright We're the same soul I don't need, I don't need to hear you say That if we weren't so alike You'd like me a whole lot more Listen to me now I need to let you know You don't have to go it alone And it's you when I look in the mirror And it's you when I don't pick up the phone Sometimes you can't make it on your own I know that we don't talk I'm sick of it all Can - you - hear - me - when - I - Sing, you're the reason I sing You're the reason why the opera is in me Where are we now? I've got to let you know A house still doesn't make a home Don't leave me here alone... And it's you when I look in the mirror And it's you that makes it hard to let go 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 -------- 2004 - How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb -------- -------- Love And Peace Or Else -------- Lay down Lay down Lay your sweet lovely on the ground Lay your love on the track We're gonna break the monster's back Yes we are Lay down your treasure Lay it down now brother You don't have time For a jealous lover As you enter this life I pray you depart With a wrinkled face And a brand new heart I don't know if I can take it I'm not easy on my knees Here's my heart you can break it I need some release, release, release We need Love and peace Love and peace Lay down Lay down your guns All your daughters of Zion All your Abraham sons I don't know if I can make it I'm not easy on my knees Here's my heart and you can break it I need some release, release, release We need Love and peace Love and peace Baby don't fight We can talk this thing through It's not a big problem It's just me and you You can call or I'll phone The TV is still on But the sound is turned down And the troops on the ground Are about to dig in And I wonder where is the love? Where is the love? Where is the love? Where is the love? Love and peace -------- 2004 - How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb -------- -------- City Of Blinding Lights -------- The more you see the less you know The less you find out as you go I knew much more then than I do now Neon heart dayglo eyes A city lit by fireflies They're advertising in the skies For people like us And I miss you when you're not around I'm getting ready to leave the ground. Ooh ooh ooh Ooh ooh ooh Oh you look so beautiful tonight In the city of blinding lights Don't look before you laugh Look ugly in a photograph Flash bulbs purple irises The camera can't see I've seen you walk unafraid I've seen you in the clothes you made Can you see the beauty inside of me? What happened to the beauty I had inside of me And I miss you when you're not around I'm getting ready to leave the ground Ooh ooh ooh Ooh ooh ooh Oh you look so beautiful tonight In the city of blinding lights Time -------- 2004 - How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb -------- -------- All Because Of You -------- I was born a child of grace Nothing else about the place Everything was ugly but your beautiful face And it left me no illusion I saw you in the curve of the moon In the shadow cast across my room You heard me in my tune When I just heard confusion All because of you All because of you All because of you I am, I am 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 All because of you All because of you All because of you I am, I am I'm alive I'm being born I just arrived, I'm at the door Of the place I started out from And I want back inside All because of you All because of you All because of you I am -------- 2004 - How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb -------- -------- A Man and A Woman -------- Little sister don't you worry about a thing today Take the heat from the sun Little sister I know that everything is not ok But you're like honey on my tongue 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 No I could never take a chance Cos I could never understand The mysterious distance Between a man and a woman You can run from love And if it's really love it will find you Catch you by the heel But you can't be numb for love The only pain is to feel nothing at all How can I hurt when I'm holding you? I could never take a chance Of losing love to find romance In the mysterious distance Between a man and a woman And you're the one, there's no-one else You make me want to lose myself In the mysterious distance Between a man and a woman Brown eyed girl across the street On rue Saint Divine I thought this is the one for me But she was already mine You were already mine Little sister I've been sleeping in the street again Like a stray dog Little sister I've been trying to feel complete again But you're gone and so is God The soul needs beauty for a soul mate When the soul wants, the soul waits No I could never take a chance On losing love to find romance In the mysterious distance Between a man and a woman For love and sex and faith and fear And all the things that keep us here In the mysterious distance Between a man and a woman How can I hurt when I'm holding you? -------- 2004 - How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb -------- -------- Crumbs From Your Table -------- From the brightest star Comes the blackest hole You had so much to offer Why did you offer your soul? I was there for you baby When you needed my help Would you deny for others What you demand for yourself? Cool down mama, cool off Cool down mama, cool off You speak of signs and wonders I need something other I would believe if I was able But I'm waiting on the crumbs from your table You were pretty as a picture It was all there to see Then your face caught up with your psychology With a mouth full of teeth You ate all your friends And you broke every heart thinking every heart mends 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 Three to a bed Sister Ann, she said Dignity passes by And you speak of signs and wonders But I need something other I would believe if I was able I'm waiting on the crumbs from your table -------- 2004 - How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb -------- -------- One Step Closer -------- I'm around the corner from anything that's real I'm across the road from hope I'm under a bridge in a rip tide That's taken everything I call my own One step closer to knowing One step closer to knowing I'm on an island at a busy intersection I can't go forward, I can't turn back Can't see the future It's getting away from me I just watch the tail lights glowing One step closer to knowing One step closer to knowing One step closer to knowing Knowing, knowing I'm hanging out to dry With my old clothes Finger still red with the prick of an old rose Well the heart that hurts Is a heart that beats Can you hear the drummer slowing One step closer to knowing One step closer to knowing One step closer to knowing To knowing, to knowing, to knowing With special thanks to Noel Gallagher -------- 2004 - How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb -------- -------- Orignal Of The Species -------- Baby slow down The end is not as fun as the start Please stay a child somewhere in your heart I'll give you everything you want Except the thing that you want You are the first one of your kind And you feel like no-one before You steal right under my door And I kneel cos I want you some more I want the lot of what you got And I want nothing that you're not Everywhere you go you shout it You don't have to be shy about it Some things you shouldn't get too good at Like smiling, crying and celebrity Some people got way too much confidence baby I'll give you everything you want Except the thing that you want You are the first one of your kind And you feel like no-one before You steal right under my door I kneel cos I want you some more I want the lot of what you got And I want nothing that you're not Everywhere you go you shout it You don't have to be shy about it, no And you'll never be alone Come on now show your soul You've been keeping your love under control Everywhere you go you shout it You don't have to be shy about it Everywhere you go you shout it Oh my my And you feel like no-one before You steal right under my door I kneel cos I want you some more I want you some more, I want you some more -------- 2004 - How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb -------- -------- Yahweh -------- Take these shoes Click clacking down some dead end street Take these shoes And make them fit Take this shirt Polyester white trash made in nowhere Take this shirt And make it clean, clean Take this soul Stranded in some skin and bones Take this soul And make it sing Yahweh, Yahweh Always pain before a child is born Yahweh, Yahweh Still I'm waiting for the dawn Take these hands Teach them what to carry Take these hands Don't make a fist Take this mouth So quick to criticise Take this mouth Give it a kiss Yahweh, Yahweh Always pain before a child is born Yahewh, Yahweh Still I'm waiting for the dawn Still waiting for the dawn, the sun is coming up The sun is coming up on the ocean This love is like a drop in the ocean This love is like a drop in the ocean Yahweh, Yahweh Always pain before a child is born Yahweh, tell me now Why the dark before the dawn? Take this city A city should be shining on a hill Take this city If it be your will What no man can own, no man can take Take this heart Take this heart Take this heart And make it break -------- 2009 - No Line on the Horizon -------- -------- No Line On The Horizon -------- I know a girl who's like the sea I watch her changing every day for me Oh yeah Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh One day she's still, the next she swells You can hear the universe in her sea shells Oh yeah Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh No, no line on the horizon, no line I know a girl with a hole in her heart She said infinity is a great place to start Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh She said "Time is irrelevant, it's not linear" Then she put her tongue in my ear Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh No, no line on the horizon No, no line No, no line on the horizon No, no line The songs in your head are now on my mind You put me on pause I'm trying to rewind and replay Every night I have the same dream I'm hatching some plot, scheming some scheme Oh yeah Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh I'm a traffic cop, rue du Marais The sirens are wailing but it's me that wants to get away Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh No line on the horizon No, no line No, no line on the horizon No, no line -------- 2009 - No Line on the Horizon -------- -------- Magnificent -------- Magnificent Magnificent I was born I was born to be with you In this space and time After that and ever after I haven't had a clue Only to break rhyme This foolishness can leave a heart black and blue Only love, only love can leave such a mark But only love, only love can heal such a scar 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 ... Only love, only love can leave such a mark But only love, only love can heal such a scar Justified till we die, you and I will magnify The Magnificent Magnificent Only love, only love can leave such a mark But only love, only love unites our hearts Justified till we die, you and I will magnify The Magnificent Magnificent Magnificent -------- 2009 - No Line on the Horizon -------- -------- Moment Of Surrender -------- I tied myself with wire To let the horses run free Playing with the fire Until the fire played with me The stone was semi-precious We were barely conscious Two souls too cool to be In the realm of certainty Even on our wedding day We set ourselves on fire Oh God, do not deny her It's not if I believe in love But if love believes in me Oh, believe in me At the moment of surrender I folded to my knees I did not notice the passers-by And they did not notice me I've been in every black hole At the altar of the dark star My body's now a begging bowl That's begging to get back, begging to get back To my heart To the rhythm of my soul To the rhythm of my unconsciousness To the rhythm that yearns To be released from control I was punching in the numbers at the ATM machine I could see in the reflection A face staring back at me At the moment of surrender Of vision over visibility I did not notice the passers-by And they did not notice me I was speeding on the subway Through the stations of the cross Every eye looking every other way Counting down 'til the pentecost At the moment of surrender Of vision of over visibility I did not notice the passers-by And they did not notice me -------- 2009 - No Line on the Horizon -------- -------- Unknown Caller -------- Sunshine, sunshine Sunshine, sunshine Oh, oh Oh, oh I was lost between the midnight and the dawning In a place of no consequence or company 3:33 when the numbers fell off the clock face Speed dialling with no signal at all Go, shout it out, rise up Oh, oh Escape yourself, and gravity Hear me, cease to speak that I may speak Shush now Oh, oh Force quit and move to trash I was right there at the top of the bottom On the edge of the known universe where I wanted to be I had driven to the scene of the accident And I sat there waiting for me Restart and re-boot yourself You're free to go Oh, oh Shout for joy if you get the chance Password, you, enter here, right now Oh, oh You know your name so punch it in Hear me, cease to speak that I may speak Shush now Oh, oh Then don't move or say a thing -------- 2009 - No Line on the Horizon -------- -------- I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight -------- She's a rainbow and she loves the peaceful life Knows I'll go crazy if I don't go crazy tonight There's a part of me in the chaos that's quiet And there's a part of you that wants me to riot Everybody needs to cry or needs to spit Every sweet tooth needs just a little hit Every beauty needs to go out with an idiot How can you stand next to the truth and not see it? A change of heart comes slow It's not a hill, it's a mountain As you start out the climb Do you believe me, or are you doubting We're gonna make it all the way to the light But I know I'll go crazy if I don't go crazy tonight Every generation gets a chance to change the world Pity the nation that won't listen to your boys and girls Cos the sweetest melody is the one we haven't heard Is it true that perfect love drives out all fear? The right to appear ridiculous is something I hold dear Oh, but a change of heart comes slow It's not a hill, it's a mountain As you start out the climb Listen for me, I'll be shouting We?re gonna make it all the way to the light But you now I'll go crazy if I don?t go crazy tonight Baby, baby, baby, I know I?m not alone Baby, baby, baby, I know I?m not alone It's not a hill, it's a mountain As we start out the climb Listen for me, I'll be shouting Shouting to the darkness, squeeze out sparks of light You know we'll go crazy You know we'll go crazy You know we'll go crazy if we don't go crazy tonight Oh oh Slowly now Oh oh -------- 2009 - No Line on the Horizon -------- -------- Get On Your Boots -------- The future needs a big kiss Winds blows with a twist Never seen a moon like this Can you see it too? Night is falling everywhere Rockets at the fun fair Satan loves a bomb scare But he won't scare you Hey, sexy boots Get on your boots, yeah You free me from the dark dream Candy floss ice cream All our kids are screaming But the ghosts aren't real Here's where we gotta be Love and community Laughter is eternity If joy is real You don't know how beautiful You don't know how beautiful you are You don't know, and you don't get it, do you? You don't know how beautiful you are That's someone's stuff they're blowing up We're into growing up Women of the future Hold the big revelations I got a submarine You got gasoline I don't want to talk about wars between nations Not right now Hey sexy boots... Get on your boots, yeah Not right now Bossy boots You don't know how beautiful You don't know how beautiful you are You don't know, and you don't get it, do you? You don't know how beautiful you are Hey sexy boots I don't want to talk about the wars between the nations Sexy boots, yeah Let me in the sound Let me in the sound Let me in the sound, sound Let me in the sound, sound Meet me in the sound Let me in the sound Let me in the sound, now God, I'm going down I don't wanna drown now Meet me in the sound Let me in the sound Let me in the sound Let me in the sound, sound Let me in the sound, sound Meet me in the sound Get on your boots Get on your boots Get on your boots Yeah hey hey -------- 2009 - No Line on the Horizon -------- -------- Stand Up Comedy -------- Love love love love love... Love love love love love... I got to stand up and take a step You and I have been asleep for hours I got to stand up The wire is stretched in between our two towers Stand up in this dizzy world Where a lovesick eye can steal the view I'm gonna fall down if I can't stand up For your love Love love love love love... Stand up, this is comedy The DNA lottery may have left you smart But can you stand up to beauty, dictator of the heart I can stand up for hope, faith, love But while I'm getting over certainty Stop helping God across the road like a little old lady Out from under your beds C'mon ye people Stand up for your love Love love love love love... I gotta stand up to ego but my ego's not really the enemy It's like a small child crossing an eight lane highway On a voyage of discovery Stand up to rock stars, Napolean is in high heels Josephine, be careful of small men with big ideas Out from under your beds C'mon ye people Stand up for your love Love love love love love... God is love And love is evolution's very best day Soul rockin' people moving on Soul rockin' people on and on C'mon ye people We're made of stars C'mon ye people Stand up then sit down for your love Love love love love love... Love love love love love... -------- 2009 - No Line on the Horizon -------- -------- Fez - Being Born -------- Six o'clock On the autoroute Burning rubber, burning chrome Bay of Cadiz and ferry home Atlantic sea cut glass African sun at last Lights... flash past... Like memories A speeding head, a speeding heart I'm being born, a bleeding start The engines roar, blood curling wail Head first then foot Then heart sets sail -------- 2009 - No Line on the Horizon -------- -------- White As Snow -------- Where I came from there were no hills at all The land was flat, the highway straight and wide My brother and I would drive for hours Like we had years instead of days Our faces as pale as the dirty snow Once I knew there was a love divine Then came a time I thought it knew me not Who can forgive forgiveness where forgiveness is not Only the lamb as white as snow And the water, it was icy As it washed over me And the moon shone above me Now this dry ground it bears no fruit at all Only poppies laugh under the crescent moon The road refuses strangers The land the seeds we sow Where might we find the lamb as white as snow As boys we would go hunting in the woods To sleep the night shooting out the stars Now the wolves are every passing stranger Every face we cannot know If only a heart could be as white as snow If only a heart could be as white as snow -------- 2009 - No Line on the Horizon -------- -------- Breathe -------- 16th of June, nine 0 five, door bell rings Man at the door says if I want to stay alive a bit longer There's a few things I need you to know. Three Coming from a long line of travelling sales people on my mother's side I wasn't gonna buy just anyone's cockatoo So why would I invite a complete stranger into my home Would you? These days are better than that These days are better than that Every day I die again, and again I'm reborn Every day I have to find the courage To walk out into the street With arms out Got a love you can't defeat Neither down or out There's nothing you have that I need I can breathe Breathe now 16th of June, Chinese stocks are going up And I'm coming down with some new Asian virus Ju Ju man, Ju Ju man Doc says you're fine, or dying Please Nine 0 nine, St John Divine, on the line, my pulse is fine But I'm running down the road like loose electricity While the band in my head plays a striptease The roar that lies on the other side of silence The forest fire that is fear so deny it Walk out into the street Sing your heart out The people we meet Will not be drowned out There's nothing you have that I need I can breathe Breathe now Yeah, yeah We are people borne of sound The songs are in our eyes Gonna wear them like a crown Walk out, into the sunburst street Sing your heart out, sing my heart out I've found grace inside a sound I found grace, it's all that I found And I can breathe Breathe now -------- 2009 - No Line on the Horizon -------- -------- Cedars Of Lebanon -------- Yesterday I spent asleep Woke up in my clothes in a dirty heap Spent the night trying to make a deadline Squeezing complicated lives into a simple headline I have your face here in an old Polaroid Tidying the children's clothes and toys You're smiling back at me, I took the photo from the fridge Can't remember what then we did I haven't been with a woman, it feels like for years Thought of you the whole time, your salty tears This shitty world sometimes produces a rose The scent of it lingers and then it just goes Return the call to home The worst of us are a long drawn out confession The best of us are geniuses of compression You say you're not going to leave the truth alone I?m here cos I don't want to go home Child drinking dirty water from the river bank Soldier brings oranges he got out from a tank I'm waiting on the waiter, he's taking a while to come Watching the sun go down on Lebanon Return the call to home Now I've got a head like a lit cigarette Unholy clouds reflecting in a minaret You're so high above me, higher than everyone Where are you in the Cedars of Lebanon? 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 -------- 2014 - Songs of Innocence -------- -------- California (There Is No End to Love) -------- [Intro] Bar-Bar-Barbara, Santa Barbara Bar-Bar-Barbara, Santa Barbara Bar-Bar-Barbara, Santa Barbara Bar-Bar-Barbara, Santa Barbara Bar-Bar-Barbara, Santa Barbara Bar-Bar-Barbara, Santa Barbara Bar-Bar-Barbara, Santa Barbara Bar-Bar-Barbara, Santa Barbara Bar-Bar-Barbara, Santa Barbara Bar-Bar-Barbara, Santa Barbara [Verse 1] California, then we fell into the shining sea The weight that drags your heart down Well that's what took me where I need to be Which is here Out on Zuma Watching you cry like a baby California, at the dawn you thought would never come But it did Like it always does [Chorus 1] All I know And all I need to know is there is no, yeah there is no end to love [Verse 2] I didn't call you Words can scare a thought away Everyone's a star in our town It's just your light gets dimmer if you have to stay In your bedroom In a mirror Watching yourself cry like a baby California, blood orange sunset brings you to your knees I've seen for myself There's no end to grief That's how I know [Chorus 2] That's how I know And why I need to know that there is no, yeah there is no end to love All I know and all I need to know is there is no, yeah there is no end to love [Guitar Solo] [Chorus 3] All I know And all I need to know is there is no, yeah there is no end to love We come and go Stolen days you don't give back Stolen days are just enough -------- 2014 - Songs of Innocence -------- -------- Cedarwood Road -------- [Verse 1] I was running down the road The fear was all I knew I was looking for a soul that's real Then I ran into you And that cherry blossom tree Was a gateway to the sun And friendship, once it's won It's won... it's won [Chorus] Northside just across the river to the Southside That's a long way here All the green and all the gold The hurt you hide, the joy you hold The foolish pride that gets you out the door Up on Cedarwood, Cedarwood Road [Verse 2] Sleepwalking down the road Not waking from these dreams 'Cause it's never dead, it's still my head It was a warzone in my teens I'm still standing on that street Still need an enemy The worst ones I can't see You can... you can [Chorus] Northside just across the river from the Southside That's a long way here All the green and all the gold The hurt you hide and the joy you hold The foolish pride that sends you back for more Up on Cedarwood, Cedarwood Road [Verse 3] If the door is open it isn't theft You can't return to where you've never left Blossoms falling from a tree, they cover you and cover me Symbols clashing, Bibles smashing Paint the world you need to see Sometimes fear is the only place that we can call our home Cedarwood Road [Outro] And a heart that is broken Is a heart that is open, open, open -------- 2014 - Songs of Innocence -------- -------- Every Breaking Wave -------- [Verse 1] Every breaking wave on the shore Tells the next one there'll be one more Every gambler knows that to lose Is what you're really there for Summer I was fearless Now, I speak into an answer phone Like every falling leaf on the breeze Winter wouldn't leave it alone, alone [Chorus] If you go If you go your way and I go mine Are we so Are we so helpless against the tide? Baby, every dog on the street Knows that we're in love with defeat Are we ready to be swept off our feet And stop chasing Every breaking wave? [Verse 2] Every sailor knows that the sea Is a friend made enemy Every shipwrecked soul knows what it is To live without intimacy I thought I heard the captain's voice It's hard to listen while you preach Like every broken wave on the shore This is as far as I could reach [Chorus] If you go If you go your way and I go mine Are we so Are we so helpless against the tide? Baby, every dog on the street Knows that we're in love with defeat Are we ready to be swept off our feet And stop chasing Every breaking wave? [Bridge] The sea knows where are the rocks And drowning is no sin You know where my heart is The same place that yours has been We know that we fear to win And so we end before we begin Before we begin [Chorus] If you go If you go your way and I go mine Are we so Are we so helpless against the tide? Baby, every dog on the street Knows that we're in love with defeat Are we ready to be swept off our feet And stop chasing Every breaking wave? -------- 2014 - Songs of Innocence -------- -------- Invisible -------- It's like the room just cleared of smoke I didn't even want the heart you broke It's yours to keep You just might need one I finally found my real name I won't be me when you see me again No, I won't be my father's son [Chorus] I'm more than you know I'm more than you see here More than you let me be I'm more than you know A body in a soul You don't see me but you will I am not invisible (That's right I'll be in the invisible world) I don't dream, not as such I don't even think about you that much Unless I start to think at all All those frozen days And your frozen ways They melt away your face like snow [Chorus] I'm more than you know I'm more than you see here I'm more than you let me be I'm more than you know A body in a soul You don't see me but you will I am not invisible I am here [Outro] There is no them There is no them There's only us There's only us There is no them There is no them There's only us There's only us There is no them There is no them There's only you And there's only me There is no them -------- 2014 - Songs of Innocence -------- -------- Iris (Hold Me Close) -------- [Verse 1] The star That gives us light Has been gone a while But it's not an illusion The ache In my heart Is so much a part of who I am Something in your eyes Took a thousand years to get here Something in your eyes Took a thousand years, a thousand years [Chorus] Hold me close, hold me close and don't let me go Hold me close like I'm someone that you might know Hold me close the darkness just lets us see Who we are I've got your light inside of me Iris, Iris [Verse 2] Once we are born, we begin to forget The very reason we came But you I'm sure I've met Long before the night the stars went out We're meeting up again [Chorus] Hold me close, hold me close and don't let me go Hold me close like I'm someone that you might know Hold me close, the darkness just lets us see Who we are I've got your light inside of me Iris, Iris [Bridge] The stars are bright but do they know The universe is beautiful but cold You took me by the hand I thought that I was leading you But it was you made me your man Machine I dream Where you are Iris standing in the hall She tells me I can do it all Iris wakes to my nightmares Don't fear the world it isn't there Iris playing on the strand She buries the boy beneath the sand Iris says that I will be the death of her It was not me Iris, Iris She says Free yourself to be yourself, if only you could see yourself Free yourself to be yourself, if only you could see... -------- 2014 - Songs of Innocence -------- -------- Lucifer's Hands -------- [Verse 1] Punk rock party in a suburban home Everybody's famous here but nobody's known We got no music 'cause the speaker's blown apart [Verse 2] The spirit's moving through a seaside town I'm born again to the latest sound New wave airwaves swirling around my heart (uh-huh) [Chorus] You no longer got a hold on me I'm out of Lucifer's hands You no longer got a hold on me You're no longer in control of me I am [Verse 3] The NME is spitting from an inky page St. John Divine is gonna take the stage At the talent show where your talent is your rage I'm in [Verse 4] Prayers of fire on a rain dark night Young men see visions beyond sound or sight The Velvets beginning to see the light Amen [Chorus] You no longer got a hold on me I'm out of Lucifer's hands You no longer got a hold on me You're no longer in control of me I am [Bridge] Yes I can change the world Yes I can change the world The poor breaking bread that's made out of stone The rich man won't eat, he's eating, alone That's easy But I can't change the world In me [Chorus] You no longer got a hold on me I'm out of Lucifer's hands You no longer got a hold on me You're no longer in control of me I am -------- 2014 - Songs of Innocence -------- -------- Raised By Wolves -------- [Verse 1] Face down on a broken street There's a man in the corner in a pool of misery I'm in white van as a red sea covers the ground Metal crash, I can't tell what it is But I take a look, and now I'm sorry I did 5:30 on a Friday night, 33 good people cut down [Refrain] I don't believe anymore I don't believe anymore [Verse 2] Face down on a pillow of shame There are some girls with a needle trying to spell my name My body's not a canvas My body's now a toilet wall [Refrain] I don't believe anymore I don't believe anymore [Chorus] Raised by wolves Stronger than fear Raised by wolves We were raised by wolves Raised by wolves Stronger than fear If I open my eyes You disappear [Verse 3] Boy sees his father crushed under the weight Of a cross in a passion where the passion is hate Blue mink Ford, I'm gonna detonate and you're dead Blood in the house Blood on the street The worst things in the world are justified by belief Registration 1385-WZ [Refrain] I don't believe anymore I don't believe anymore [Chorus] Raised by wolves Stronger than fear Raised by wolves We were raised by wolves Raised by wolves Stronger than fear If I open my eyes You disappear -------- 2014 - Songs of Innocence -------- -------- Sleep Like A Baby Tonight (Alternative Perspective Mix) -------- [Verse 1] Morning, your toast, your tea and sugar Read about the politician's lover Go through the day like knife through butter Why don't you You dress in the colors of forgiveness Your eyes as red as Christmas Purple robes are folded on the kitchen chair [Chorus] You're gonna sleep like a baby tonight In your dreams, everything is alright Tomorrow dawns like someone else's suicide You're gonna sleep like a baby tonight [Verse 2] Dreams It's a dirty business, dreaming Where there is silence and not screaming Where there's no daylight, there's no healing [Chorus] You're gonna sleep like a baby tonight In your dreams, everything is alright Tomorrow dawns like a suicide But you're gonna sleep like a baby tonight [Bridge] Hope is where the door is When the church is where the war is Where no one can feel no one else's pain [Chorus] You're gonna sleep like a baby tonight In your dreams, everything is alright Tomorrow dawns like a suicide But you're gonna sleep like a baby tonight Sleep like a baby tonight Like a bird, your dreams take flight Like St Francis covered in light You're gonna sleep like a baby tonight -------- 2014 - Songs of Innocence -------- -------- Sleep Like a Baby Tonight -------- [Verse 1] Morning, your toast, your tea and sugar Read about the politician's lover Go through the day like knife through butter Why don't you You dress in the colors of forgiveness Your eyes as red as Christmas Purple robes are folded on the kitchen chair [Chorus] You're gonna sleep like a baby tonight In your dreams, everything is alright Tomorrow dawns like someone else's suicide You're gonna sleep like a baby tonight [Verse 2] Dreams It's a dirty business, dreaming Where there is silence and not screaming Where there's no daylight, there's no healing [Chorus] You're gonna sleep like a baby tonight In your dreams, everything is alright Tomorrow dawns like a suicide But you're gonna sleep like a baby tonight [Verse 3] Hope, hope is where the door is When the church is where the war is Where no one can feel no one else's pain [Chorus] You're gonna sleep like a baby tonight In your dreams, everything is alright Tomorrow dawns like a suicide But you're gonna sleep like a baby tonight Sleep like a baby tonight Like a bird, your dreams take flight Like St. Francis covered in light You're gonna sleep like a baby tonight -------- 2014 - Songs of Innocence -------- -------- Song for Someone -------- [Verse 1] You got a face not spoiled by beauty I have some scars from where I've been You've got eyes that can see right through me You're not afraid of anything they've seen [Pre-Chorus 1] I was told that I would feel Nothing the first time I don't know how these cuts heal But in you I found a rhyme [Chorus 1] If there is a light you can't always see And there is a world we can't always be If there is a dark that we shouldn't doubt And there is a light, don't let it go out And this is a song, a song for someone This is a song, a song for someone [Verse 2] You let me in to a conversation A conversation only we could make You're breaking into my imagination Whatever's in there it's yours to take [Pre-Chorus 2] I was told I would feel Nothing the first time You were slow to heal But this could be the night [Chorus 2] If there is a light you can't always see And there is a world we can't always be If there is a dark within and without And there is a light, don't let it go out And this is a song, a song for someone This is a song, this is a song for someone [Outro] And I'm a long, long way from your hill of Calvary And I'm a long way from where I was, where I need to be If there is a light you can't always see And there is a world we can't always be If there is a kiss I stole from your mouth And there is a light, don't let it go out -------- 2014 - Songs of Innocence -------- -------- The Crystal Ballroom -------- Life begins with the first glance The first kiss and the first dance All of us are wondering why we're here In the crystal ballroom underneath the chandelier Wet the glass 'til the glasses sing We punish our hearts 'til the heart bells ring Cause where we come from We're not always kind The human story is what love leaves behind We're the ghosts of love And we haunt this place We're the ghosts of love In every face In the ballroom of the crystalline Everyone's here with me tonight Everyone but you Our first chance is their last dance Our life is shaped by another's hands Buttoning, unbuttoning a Coco dress Stopping and not stopping every cold caress Born for bliss, born for this Every human life begins with a kiss A kiss by every kind of possibility And everyone is here tonight with me We're the ghosts of love And we haunt this place We're the ghosts of love In every face In the ballroom of the crystalline Everyone's here with me tonight Everyone but you Everybody's here with me tonight Everybody's here with me but you Everybody's here with me tonight Everybody's here with me but you Everybody's here with me tonight Everybody's here with me but you Everybody's here with me tonight Everybody's here with me but you Born for bliss, born for this Every human life begins with a kiss -------- 2014 - Songs of Innocence -------- -------- The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone) -------- [Verse 1] I was chasing down the days of fear Chasing down a dream before it disappeared I was aching to be somewhere near Your voice was all I heard I was shaking from a storm in me Haunted by the spectres that we had to see Yeah, I wanted to be the melody Above the noise, above the hurt [Pre-Chorus] I was young Not dumb Just wishing to be blinded By you Brand new And we were pilgrims on our way [Chorus 1] I woke up at the moment when the miracle occurred Heard a song that made some sense out of the world Everything I ever lost, now has been returned The most beautiful sound I'd ever heard [Verse 2] We got language so we can't communicate Religion so I can love and hate Music so I can exaggerate my pain And give it a name [Pre-Chorus] I was young Not dumb Just wishing to be blinded By you Brand new And we were pilgrims on our way [Chorus 1] I woke up at the moment when the miracle occurred Heard a song that made some sense out of the world Everything I ever lost, now has been returned The most beautiful sound I'd ever heard [Bridge] We can hear you (hear you) We can hear you We can hear you (hear you, ooh) [Chorus 2] I woke up at the moment when the miracle had come I get so many things I don't deserve All the stolen voices will some day be returned The most beautiful sound I'd ever heard [Outro] Your voices will be heard Your voices will be heard -------- 2014 - Songs of Innocence -------- -------- The Troubles (Alternative Version) -------- [Verse 1] You think it's easier To get your fingers out of trouble When the trouble is you You think it's easier To keep your hands out of trouble When the trouble is you [Pre-Chorus] I have a will for survival So you can hurt me then, and hurt me some more I can live with denial But you're not my troubles anymore [Chorus] Somebody stop the world I'm on Somebody stop the world I'm on Somebody throw a line to me Somebody tell me what to say Somebody stop the world I'm on Somebody stop the world I'm on Somebody throw a line to me Somebody tell me what to say [Verse 2] You think it's easier To give up on the trouble If the trouble is destroying you You think it's easier To know your own tricks Well, it's the hardest thing you'll ever do [Pre-Chorus] I have a will for survival So you can hurt me then, and hurt me some more I can live with denial But you're not my troubles anymore [Chorus] Somebody stop the world I'm on Somebody stop the world I'm on Somebody throw a line to me Somebody tell me what to say Somebody stop the world I'm on Somebody stop the world I'm on Somebody throw a line to me Somebody tell me what to say [Bridge] I stepped outside like I had never seen the night before Looking at the stars that never looked so bright before This crooked heart, it never felt so light before A brand new man, a brand new man [Chorus] Somebody stop the world I'm on Somebody stop the world I'm on Somebody throw a line to me Somebody tell me what to say Somebody stop the world I'm on Somebody stop the world I'm on Somebody throw a line to me Somebody tell me what to say -------- 2014 - Songs of Innocence -------- -------- The Troubles -------- [Chorus: Lykke Li] Somebody stepped inside your soul Somebody stepped inside your soul Little by little, they robbed and stole 'Til someone else was in control [Verse 1: Bono] You think it's easier To put your finger on the trouble When the trouble is you And you think it's easier To know your own tricks Well, it's the hardest thing you'll ever do [Pre-Chorus: Bono & Lykke Li] I have a will for survival So you can hurt me and hurt me some more I can live with denial But you're not my troubles anymore [Chorus: Lykke Li] Somebody stepped inside your soul Somebody stepped inside your soul Little by little, they robbed and stole 'Til somebody else was in control Somebody stepped inside your soul Somebody stepped inside your soul Little by little, they robbed and stole 'Til someone else was in control [Verse 2: Bono] You think it's easier To give up on the trouble If the trouble is destroying you And you think it's easier But before you threw me a rope It was the one thing I could hold on to [Pre-Chorus: Bono & Lykke Li] I have a will for survival So you can hurt me then, and hurt me some more I can live with denial But you're not my troubles anymore [Chorus: Lykke Li & (Bono)] Somebody stepped inside your soul Somebody stepped inside your soul Little by little, they robbed and stole 'Til somebody else was in control ('til someone else is in control) Somebody stepped inside your soul (oh no) Somebody stepped inside your soul (oh no) Little by little, they robbed and stole 'Til somebody else was in control [Bridge: Bono & Lykke Li] God knows it's not easy I'm taking on the shape of someone else's pain God, now you can see me I'm naked and I'm not afraid, my body's Sacred and I'm not ashamed [Chorus: Lykke Li & (Bono)] Somebody stepped inside your soul (oh no) Somebody stepped inside your soul (oh no) Little by little, they robbed and stole 'Til somebody else was in control ('til someone else is in control) Somebody stepped inside your soul (oh no) Somebody stepped inside your soul (oh no) Little by little, they robbed and stole 'Til someone else was in control (someone else is in control) -------- 2014 - Songs of Innocence -------- -------- This Is Where You Can Reach Me Now -------- [Chorus] Soldier soldier We signed our lives away Complete surrender The only weapon we know Soldier soldier We knew the world would never be the same Soldier this is where you can reach me now [Verse 1] We come from an ancient place Beyond what we can see We've come to colonise your night And steal your poetry Old man knows that I never listen So how could I have something to say? Old man knows how to cheat ambition You don't lose if you don't play 1, 2, 3, 4, was enough [Chorus] Soldier soldier We signed our lives away Complete surrender The only weapon we know Soldier soldier We knew the world would never be the same Soldier this is where you can reach me now [Verse 2] On a double decker bus Into College Square If you won't let us in your world Your world just isn't there Old man says that we never listen We shout about what we don't know We're taking the path of most resistance The only way for us to go Hup, 2, 3, 4, was enough [Chorus] Soldier soldier We signed our lives away Complete surrender The only weapon we know Soldier soldier We knew the world will never be the same Soldier this is where you can reach me now [Outro] This is the site This is the season This is where you can reach me now This is the time This is the number This is where you can reach me now -------- 2014 - Songs of Innocence -------- -------- Volcano -------- [Verse 1] The world is spinning fast tonight You can hurt yourself tryin' to hold on To what you used to be I'm so glad the past is all gone [Pre-Chorus] Been out in the wild Been out in the night Been out of your mind Do you live here or is this a vacation? [Chorus] Oh, volcano You don't wanna, you don't wanna know Volcano Something in you wants to blow Volcano You don't wanna, you don't wanna know [Verse 2] Your eyes were like landing lights They used to be the clearest blue Now you don't see so well The future's gonna land on you [Pre-Chorus] Been out in the wild Been out in the night Been out of your mind Do you live here or is this a vacation? [Chorus] Oh, volcano You don't wanna, you don't wanna know Volcano Something in you wants to blow Volcano You don't wanna, you don't wanna know You're on a piece of ground above a volcano [Bridge] You were alone And now you're not alone You were alone You are Rock N Roll You and I are Rock N Roll You are Rock N Roll You and I are Rock N Roll [Chorus] Oh, volcano You don't wanna, you don't wanna know Volcano Something in you wants to blow Volcano You don't wanna, you don't wanna know You're on a piece of ground above a volcano -------- 2017 - Songs of Experience -------- -------- 13 (There Is a Light) -------- [Verse 1] And if the terrors of the night Come creeping into your days And the world comes stealing children from your room Guard your innocence from hallucination And know that darkness always gathers around the light [Chorus] If there is a light We can't always see If there is a world We can't always be If there is a dark Now we shouldn't doubt And there is a light Don't let it go out [Verse 2] When the wind screams and shouts And the sea is a dragon's tail And the ship that stole your heart away Sets sail [Pre-Chorus] When all you've left is leaving And all you got is grieving And all you know is needing [Chorus] If there is a light We can't always see If there is a world We can't always be If there is a dark Now we shouldn't doubt And there is a light Don't let it go out [Post-Chorus] 'Cause this is a song A song for someone Someone like me [Bridge] I know the world is dumb But you don't have to be I've got a question for the child in you before it leaves Are you tough enough to be kind? Do you know your heart has its own mind? Darkness gathers around the light Hold on Hold on [Chorus] There is a light We can't always see If there is a world We can't always be If there is a dark That we shouldn't doubt And there is a light Don't let it go out [Outro] And this is a song A song for someone This is a song A song for someone Someone like me Someone like me Someone like me -------- 2017 - Songs of Experience -------- -------- American Soul -------- [Intro: Kendrick Lamar] Blessed are the bullies For one day they will have to stand up to themselves Blessed are the liars For the truth can be awkward [Verse 1: Bono] It's not a place This country is to me a sound Of drum and bass You close your eyes to look around [Bridge 1: Bono] Look around, look around Look around, it's a sound Look around, look around It's a sound [Verse 2: Bono] It's not a place This country is to me a thought That offers grace For every welcome that is sought [Chorus: Bono] You are rock and roll You and I are rock and roll You are rock and roll We came here looking for American soul [Verse 3: Bono] It's not a place This is a dream the whole world owns The pilgrim's face It had your heart to call her home [Refrain] Hold on Brother John Too many mothers weepin' Dream on Brother John But in your dreams you can't be sleepin' [Chorus: Bono] You are rock and roll You and I are rock and roll You are rock and roll We came here looking for American soul American American [Bridge 2: Bono] Put your hands in the air Hold up the sky Could be too late, but we still gotta try There's a moment in our life where a soul can die And the person in a country when you believe the lie The lie (the lie, the lie) There's a promise in the heart of every good dream It's a call to action, not to fantasy The end of a dream, the start of what's real Let it be unity Let it be community For refugees like you and me A country to receive us Will you be our sanctuary Refu-Jesus [Chorus: Bono] You are rock and roll You and I are rock and roll You are rock and roll Came here looking for American soul [Chorus: Bono] You are rock and roll You and I are rock and roll You are rock and roll Came here looking for American soul American soul American soul -------- 2017 - Songs of Experience -------- -------- Book of Your Heart -------- [Verse 1] Right at the start You put this into words How you think we should proceed, yeah You wanted me alone With the pictures that you've seen Of where you haven't been But where you want to go [Pre-Chorus 1] Ask the leaf and ask the bird Not to sing or speak a word We are not fictitious characters We don't belong to this world [Chorus] The book, the book of your heart One tiny mark, an entry In the book of your heart It's written on skin To even be in The book of your heart [Verse 2] You can change your name, or even who you are That's the beauty of the scar That is the contract of the heart [Pre-Chorus 2] This is our wedding day This is the promise that we'll stay Through the long descriptive passages Where we don't know what to say [Chorus] The book, the book of your heart One tiny mark, an entry In the book of your heart It's written on skin To even be in The book of your heart [Outro] Babe I don't belong to you Love is what we choose to do Babe you don't belong to me It's not that easy -------- 2017 - Songs of Experience -------- -------- Get Out of Your Own Way -------- [Chorus: Bono] Get out of your own way, hey, hey Get out of your own way, hey, hey [Verse 1: Bono] Love hurts Now you're the girl who's left with no words Your heart's a balloon, but then it bursts It doesn't take a cannon, just a pin Your skin's not covering And resistance Love has got to fight for its existence The enemy has armies of assistance The amorous, the glamorous, the kiss A fist, listen to this, oh [Chorus: Bono] Get out of your own way, oh, I Get out of your own way, oh, I [Post-Chorus: Bono] I could sing it to you all night, all night If I could, I'd make it alright, alright Nothing's stopping you except what's inside I can help you, but it's your fight, your fight [Verse 2: Bono] Fight back Don't take it lyin' down, you got to bite back The face of liberty's starting to crack She had a plan up until she got smacked in the mouth And it all went south Like freedom The slaves are lookin' for someone to lead them The master's lookin' for someone to need him The promised land is there for those who need it most And Lincoln's ghost said... [Chorus: Bono] Get out of your own way, oh, I Get out of your own way, oh, I [Post-Chorus: Bono] I could sing it to you all night, all night If I could, I'd make it alright, alright Nothing's stopping you except what's inside I can help you, but it's your fight, your fight [Chorus: Bono] Get out of your own way Get out of your own way [Instrumental Bridge] [Chorus: Bono] Get out of your own way Get out of your own way Get out of your own way [Outro: Kendrick Lamar] Blessed are the arrogant For there is the kingdom of their own company Blessed are the superstars For the magnificence in their light We understand better our own insignificance Blessed are the filthy rich For you can only truly own what you give away Like your pain -------- 2017 - Songs of Experience -------- -------- Landlady -------- [Verse 1] Roam, the phone is where I live 'til I get home And when the doorbell rings you tell me that I have a key I ask you, how you know it's me The road, no road without a turn and if there was The road would be too long What keeps us standing in this view Is the view that we can be brand new [Chorus] The landlady takes me up in the air I go, I go where I would not dare The landlady shows me the stars up there I'm weightless, weightless when she is there And I'll never know, never know what starving poets meant 'Cause when I was broke, it was you that always paid the rent [Verse 2] Space, her place is where I found my parking space And when I'm losing ground, you know she gives it back to me She whispers "don't do, just be" [Chorus] The landlady takes me up in the air I go, I go where I would not dare The landlady shows me the stars up there I'm weightless, weightless when she is there And I'll never know, never know what starving poets meant 'Cause when I was broke, it was you that always paid the rent [Outro] Every wave that broke me Every song that wrote me Every dawn that woke me Was to get me home to you, see Every soul that left me Every heart that kept me The strangers that protected me To bring me back to you Every magic potion Every false emotion How unswerving our devotion To the lies we know are almost true Every sweet confusion Every grand illusion I will win and call it losing If the prize is not for you -------- 2017 - Songs of Experience -------- -------- Lights of Home (St Peter's String Version) -------- [Verse 1] Shouldn't be here 'cause I should be dead I can see the lights in front of me I believe my best days are ahead I can see the lights in front of me Oh Jesus if I'm still your friend What the hell What the hell you got for me I gotta get out from under my bed I can see again the lights in front of me Hey I've been waiting to get home a long time [Chorus] Hey now, do you know my name Hey now, where I'm going If I can't get an answer In your eyes I see it The lights of home The lights of home [Verse 2] I was born from a screaming sound I can see the lights in front of me I thought my head was harder than ground I can see the lights in front of me One more push and I'll be born again One more road you can't travel with a friend Saw a statue of a gold guitar Bright lights right in front of me Hey, I've been waiting to get home a long time [Chorus] Hey now, do you know my name Hey now, where I'm going If I can't get an answer In your eyes I see it The lights of home In the lights of home Hey now, do you know my name Hey now, where I'm going If I can't get an answer In your eyes I see it In your eyes alone I see the lights of home [Outro] Free yourself to be yourself If only you could you see yourself If only you could Free yourself to be yourself If only you could see yourself If only you could Free yourself to be yourself If only you could see yourself If only you could Free yourself to be yourself If only you could see yourself If only you could see -------- 2017 - Songs of Experience -------- -------- Lights of Home -------- [Verse 1] I shouldn't be here 'cause I should be dead I can see the lights in front of me I believe my best days are ahead I can see the lights in front of me Oh, Jesus, if I'm still your friend What the hell What the hell you got for me? I gotta get out from under my bed To see again the lights in front of me Hey, I've been waiting to get home a long time [Chorus] Hey now, do you know my name? Hey now, where I'm going If I can't get an answer In your eyes, I see it The lights of home The lights of home [Verse 2] I was born from a screaming sound I can see the lights in front of me I thought my head was harder than ground I can see the lights in front of me One more push and I'll be born again One more road you can't travel with a friend Saw a statue of a gold guitar Bright lights right in front of me Hey, I've been waiting to get home a long time [Chorus] Hey now, do you know my name? Hey now, where I'm going If I can't get an answer In your eyes, I see it The lights of home In the lights of home [Interlude] [Chorus] Hey now, do you know my name? Hey now, where I'm going If I can't get an answer In your eyes, I see it In your eyes alone I see the lights of home [Outro] Free yourself to be yourself If only you could you see yourself If only you could Free yourself to be yourself If only you could see yourself If only you could Free yourself to be yourself If only you could see yourself If only you could Free yourself to be yourself If only you could see yourself If only you could see -------- 2017 - Songs of Experience -------- -------- Love Is All We Have Left -------- Nothing to stop this being the best day ever Nothing to keep us from where we should be I wanted the world but you knew better And that all we have is immortality There is a light Love and love is all we have left A baby cries on a doorstep Love is all we have left Love and love is all we have left You argue because you can't accept Love is all we have left Now you're at the other end of a telescope Seven billion stars in her eyes So many stars So many ways of seeing Hey this is no time not to be alive Love and love is all we have left A baby cries on a doorstep Love is all we have left Love and love is all we have left The only thing that can be kept Love is all we have left -------- 2017 - Songs of Experience -------- -------- Love is Bigger Than Anything in Its Way -------- [Verse 1] The door is open to go through If I could I would come too But the path is made by you As you're walking start singing and stop talking [Chorus] Oh, if I could hear myself when I say Oh, love is bigger than anything in its way [Verse 2] So young to be the words of your own song I know the rage in you is strong Write a world where we can belong To each other and sing it like no other [Chorus] Oh, if I could hear myself when I say Oh, love is bigger than anything in its way [Bridge] If the moonlight caught you crying on Killiney Bay Oh sing your song Let your song be sung If you listen you can hear the silence say When you think you're done You've just begun [Outro] Love is bigger than anything in its way Love is bigger than anything in its way Love is bigger than anything in its way -------- 2017 - Songs of Experience -------- -------- Ordinary Love -------- [Verse 1] The sea wants to kiss the golden shore The sunlight warms your skin All the beauty that's been lost before Wants to find us again I can't fight you anymore It's you I'm fighting for The sea throws rocks together But time leaves us polished stones [Chorus] We can't fall any further If we can't feel ordinary love And we cannot reach any higher If we can't deal with ordinary love [Verse 2] Birds fly high in the summer sky And rest on the breeze The same wind will take care of you and I We'll build our house in the trees Your heart is on my sleeve Did you put there with a magic marker For years I would believe That the world couldn't wash it away [Chorus] 'Cause we can't fall any further If we can't feel ordinary love And we cannot reach any higher If we can't deal with ordinary love [Bridge] Are we tough enough For ordinary love [Chorus] We can't fall any further If we can't feel ordinary love And we cannot reach any higher If we can't deal with ordinary love We can't fall any further If we can't feel ordinary love And we cannot reach any higher If we can't deal with ordinary love -------- 2017 - Songs of Experience -------- -------- Red Flag Day -------- [Verse 1] I am made of all that I'm afraid of I'm most afraid of losing you Hell's a season You're the reason that I even dreamt of getting through [Pre-Chorus] I, I can feel your body shaking I, I will meet you where the waves are breaking [Chorus] Baby it's a Red Flag Day Baby let's get in the water Taken out by a wave Where we've never been before Baby it's a Red Flag Day Baby let's go a bit further Paradise is a place You can't see when it's yours Red Flag Day Red Flag Day [Verse 2] Sun comes here and oceanic feeling Sky will soon be clear Today we can't afford to be afraid of what we fear [Pre-Chorus] I, I can feel your body shaking I, I will meet you where the waves are breaking [Chorus] Baby it's a Red Flag Day Baby let's get in the water Taken out by a wave Where we've never been before Baby it's a Red Flag Day Baby let's go a bit further Paradise is a place You can't see when it's yours Red Flag Day Baby it's a Red Flag Day Red Flag Day [Bridge] Not even news today So many lost in the sea last night One word that the sea can't say Is no, no, no, no [Chorus] Baby it's a Red Flag Day Red Flag Day Baby it's a Red Flag Day Baby let's get in the water -------- 2017 - Songs of Experience -------- -------- Summer of Love -------- [Verse 1] The winter Doesn't want you It haunts you Summer serenadings A long way From this frozen place Your face Our teacher Our preacher It's nature And like flowers growing in a bomb crater From nothing A rose It grows [Chorus] I've been thinking about the West Coast Not the one that everyone knows We're sick of living in the shadows We have one more chance before the light goes For a summer of love A summer of love [Verse 2] We're freezing We're leaving Believing That all we need is to head over somewhere In a summer To come So we run [Chorus] I've been thinking about the West Coast Not the one that everyone knows We're sick of living in the shadows We have one more chance before the light goes For a summer of love A summer of love [Bridge] Oh and when all is lost When all is lost we find out what remains Oh the same oceans crossed For some it's pleasure, for some it's pain [Chorus] I've been thinking about the West Coast Not the one that everyone knows In the rubble of Aleppo Flowers blooming in the shadows For a summer of love A summer of love -------- 2017 - Songs of Experience -------- -------- The Blackout -------- [Verse 1] A dinosaur, wonders why it still walks the earth, yeah A meteor, promises it's not gonna hurt, yeah Earthquake, always happen when you're in bed, Fred The house shakes, maybe was it something I said, Ned Go, easy on me, easy on me, brother Go, easy on me, easy on me, brother [Chorus] When the lights go out, throw yourself about In the darkness where you learn to see When the lights go out, don't you ever doubt The light that we can really be [Verse 2] Statues fall, democracy is flat on its back, Jack We had it all, and what we had is not coming back, Zach A big mouth says the people, they don't wanna be free for free The blackout, is this an extinction event we see? Go, easy on me, easy on me, brother Go, easy on me, easy on me, now [Chorus] When the lights go out, throw yourself about In the darkness where you learn to see When the lights go out, don't you ever doubt The light that we can really be When the lights go out When the lights go out When the lights go out When the lights go out When the lights go out Blackout, it's clear, who you are will appear Blackout, no fear, so glad that we are all still here When the lights go out When the lights go out When the lights go out [Chorus] When the lights go out, throw yourself about In the darkness where you learn to see When the lights go out, don't you ever doubt The light that we can really be When the lights go out When the lights go out When the lights go out When the lights go out When the lights go out -------- 2017 - Songs of Experience -------- -------- The Little Things That Give You Away -------- [Verse 1] The night gave you a song A light had been turned on You walked out in the world Like you belong there As easy as a breeze Each heart was yours to please Is it only me who sees There's something wrong there [Pre-Chorus] Oh la la, I'm not a ghost now I can see you You need to see me [Chorus] It's the little things that give you away The words you cannot say Your big mouth in the way [Verse 2] I saw you on the stairs You didn't notice I was there That's 'cause you were talking at me And not to me You were high above the storm A hurricane being born This freedom it might cost you Your liberty [Chorus] It's the little things that give you away The words you cannot say Your big mouth in the way It's the little things that tease and betray Has the hunter now become the prey? It's the little things The little things that give you away [Outro] Sometimes I can't believe my existence See myself from a distance I can't get back inside Sometimes The air is so anxious All my thoughts are so reckless And all my innocence has died Sometimes I wake at four in the morning Where all the darkness is swarming And it covers me in fear Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes I'm full of anger and grieving So far away from believing That any sun will reappear Sometimes The end is not coming It's not coming The end is here Sometimes [Guitar Solo] Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes When the painted glass shatters And you're the only thing matters But I can't see you through the tears Sometimes The end is not coming It's not coming The end is here Sometimes -------- 2017 - Songs of Experience -------- -------- The Showman (Little More Better) -------- [Verse 1] Baby's crying cause it's born to sing Singers cry about everything Still in the playground falling off a swing But you know that I know Walk through the room like a birthday cake When I am all lit up, I can't make a mistake And there's a level of shallow that you just can't fake But you know that I know [Pre-Chorus] Oh you don't care But you know I'm there [Chorus] You think you look so good A little more better Look so good Just a little more little more Look so good That's what's gonna get you Look so good Just a little more little more You know you're chasing the sunlight That's why I'm stayin' up all night You think you look so good A little more better Look so good A little more [Verse 2] It is what it is but it's not what it seems This screwed up stuff is the stuff of dreams I got just enough low self esteem To get me where I want to go The showman gives you front row to his heart The showman prays his heartache will chart Making a spectacle of falling apart Is just the start of the show [Pre-Chorus] Oh you don't care But you know I'm there [Chorus] You think you look so good A little more better Look so good Just a little more little more Look so good That's what's gonna get you Look so good Little more, little more I'll be chasing the sunlight That's why I'm staying up all night I lie for a living, I love to let on But you make it true when you sing along [Interlude] [Chorus] You think you look so good A little more better Look so good Just a little more little more Look so good That's what's gonna get you Look so good Just a little more, little more You think you look so good A little more better Look so good Just a little more little more Look so good That's what's gonna get you Look so good Just a little more, little more -------- 2017 - Songs of Experience -------- -------- You're the Best Thing About Me -------- [Verse 1: Bono] When you look so good, the pain in your face doesn't show When you look so good and baby, you don't even know When the world is ours but the world is not your kind of thing Full of shooting stars, brighter as they're vanishing Oh you've seen enough to know it's children who teach You're still free enough to wake up on a bed or a beach [Chorus: Bono] You're the best thing about me The best thing that ever happened a boy You're the best thing about me I'm the kind of trouble that you enjoy You're the best thing about me The best things are easy to destroy You're the best thing about me The best thing about me [Verse 2: Bono] I been crying out, "How bad can a good time be?" Shooting off my mouth, that's another great thing about me I have everything but I feel like nothing at all There's no risky thing for a man who's determined to fall [Chorus: Bono] You're the best thing about me The best thing that ever happened a boy You're the best thing about me I'm the kind of trouble that you enjoy You're the best thing about me The best things are easy to destroy You're the best thing about me [Post-Chorus: Bono] Why am I Why am I walking away? Walking away Why am I walking away? [Bridge: The Edge] I can see it all so clearly I can see what you can't see I can see you love her loudly When she needs you quietly [Chorus: Bono] You're the best thing about me The best things are easy to destroy You're the best thing about me [Post-Chorus: Bono] Why am I Why am I walking away? Walking away Why am I walking away?