favourite u2 lyric

[Final Straw]

whats your favourite u2 lyric and why?

I've a couple;
In my dreams i was drowning my sorrows but my sorrows they learned to swim.

and

A place that has to be believed, to be seen.

 

[coach]

I went out there, to taste and to touch, and to feel as much as a man can, before he repents.

And of course

I want to run, I want to hide
I want to tear down the wall that hold me inside

 

[craigp]

one day il die, the choic will not be mine, will it be too late? you cant fight fate

 

[JCOSTER]

I have a few I can't just name one. But I'll give you 3 to keep it short.


You could have flown away
A singing bird in an open cage
Who will only fly, only fly for freedom - Walk On

Take these hands, don’t make a fist, no
Take this mouth
So quick to criticise
Take this mouth, give it a kiss - Yahweh

And it's true we are immune
When fact is fiction and T.V. reality - Sunday Bloody Sunday (way ahead of its time in the lyrical sense).

 

[Zoots]

There are so many

You miss too much these days if you stop to think

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
Cos I need it now

September, streets capsizing, spilling over and down the drain
Shards of glass, splinters like rain but you can only feel your own pain
October, talk getting nowhere
November, December
Remember, are we just starting again?

You gotta cry without weeping
Talk without speaking
Scream without raising your voice

I'll see you again when the stars fall from the sky
And the moon has turned red over one tree hill

Too set in our ways to try to rearrange

Jesus can you take the time to throw a drowning man a line, peace on earth

You've been all over and it's been all over you

 

[pentax]

We go out a picture or a disco or a round about. I walk you home i hold you there your giving out. I open doors so i can shut your face. Know your place

The next minute you’re blowing a fuse and the cartoon network turns into the news.

 

[LadyAnn77]

Don't want what I deserve...

 

[Screwtape2]

I think some of Bono's best work is on demo's. Why those lyrics get lost are beyond me. Just sticking to official releases here's what I love.

I love you cause I need to
Not because I need you
I love you cause I understand
That God has given me your hand
It holds me in a tiny fist
But still I need your kiss
Hold onto love- Luminous Times (Hold On To Love)

He said he was an artist but he really painted billboards
In large capital letters, in large capital letters
He was telling jokes, nobody else would listen to him
I saw you that day, your lips were cherry red
Your legs were crossed, your arms wide open
Your hair was coloured gold
And like a field of corn you were blown by the wind
You were blown by the wind- Walk To The Water

A man makes a picture, a moving picture
Through light projected he can see himself up close
You’re gonna meet her there
A man captures colour
She’s your destination- Lemon

See the sun rise 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
Brings a flood of fear
Through the ghost-ranch hills
Death valley waters
In the towers of steel
Belief goes on and on- Heartland

Love don’t need to find a way
You’ll find yourself astray
I forget that you’re the stain
You’ll turn your tables ‘round

I can’t live to love again
Love comes tumbling down again- Love Comes Tumbling (V3)

 

[smurf_sista]

when you look at the world, what is it that you see? people find all kinds of things. That bring them to there knees


pritty much that whole song. I donno it is just such a visual song

 

[coffeeiscold]

if the sky can crack there must be someway back for love and only love.

i love that whole song but that lyric is really powerful. it sums up the whole song in one line.

i also love:
i love you because i need to not because i need you

i must be an acrobat to talk like this and act like that

i was there for you baby when you needed my help would you
deny for others what you demand for yourself?

love is big, bigger then us, but love is not what your thinking of.

vampire or a victim it depends on whose around

if you need someone to blame throw a rock in the air and you'll hit someone guilty.

 

[coffeeiscold]

We go out a picture or a disco or a round about. I walk you home i hold you there your giving out. I open doors so i can shut your face. Know your place

what song is that from? i don't recognize them.

 

[neutral]

^ Those lyrics are from Boy/Girl.

 

[babyu2lover]

i can't change the world but I can change the world in me...rejoice

you can run from love but if it's really love it'll find you, catch you by the heel....

and you can dream so dream aloud you know that your time is coming round so don't let the bastards grind you down...

 

[phillyfan26]

Acrobat
Dirty Day
Until the End of the World
One Tree Hill
Mothers of the Disappeared
Bad
All I Want is You

 

[u2wildhoney]

My. fav. lyrics:

lyric of Love Rescue Me
lyric of Acrobat
lyric of Hawkmoon 269
lyric of WTSHNN
lyric of Miracle Drug
lyric of Always

 

[Molineux1980]

You ask me to enter,
then you make me crawl,
I can't be holding on,
to what you've got,
when all you've got is hurt

Just thet hole section of 'One' builds into a kind of crescendo. Superb.

 

[BoyStupidBoy88]

I'm in you
More so when they put me in the ground
-Dirty Day

Well you lied to me, 'cause I asked you to
-Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses

Just two of my favs

 

[dietcokeofevil]

boom cha boom cha

 

[Varitek]

I have more but for now

the doors you open
I just can't close

(especially with the inflection, the way it fits in the rhythm...)

 

[tjames921]

A couple others that I like that haven't been mentioned.

Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief;
All kill their inspiration and sing about the grief.
- The Fly

I reached out for the one I tried to destroy.
-UTEOTW

 

[Bones58]

"And I have no compass and I have no map" - Zooropa... in fact that song is just genius althogether

"Gonna be there, Gonna make on time" - Zoo Station

" Lookin for to save my, save my soul" - MOFO

"Midnight, sons and daughters, cut down taken from us" - Mothers of the Disappeared

"Midnight is where the day begins" - Lemon

" See the sky, the burning rain, She will die and live again, tonight" - A Sort of Homecoming

"Wipe your tears away" Sunday Bloody Sunday

 

[Bono in Melb]

Freedom has a scent, like the top of a new born baby's head. - Miracle Drug.

One for all the fathers ot there.

 

[jonnytakeawalk]

'and you hunger for the time, time to heal 'desire time' and your earth moves beneath your own dream landscape- A Sort of Homecoming

'if you need someone to blame, throw a rock in the air, you'll hit someone guilty.'- Dirty Day

 

[Varitek]

between the horses of love and lust we are trampled under foot

^my current favorite. And i can't get over that it comes directly after one of his worst lyrics - "The night is bleeding like a cut." (right up there with "empty as a vacant lot")

 

[sconehead]

''they took your life, they could not take you pride!''

 

[TheQuiet1]

A couple others that I like that haven't been mentioned.

Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief;
All kill their inspiration and sing about the grief.
- The Fly

I reached out for the one I tried to destroy.
-UTEOTW

I also love these Gone lyrics:

"You can keep this suit of lies".

I know, I know, these aren't the actual lyrics he sings but they are the lyrics I hear and that's near enough for me!!

 

[Outsider]

She's living next week now. You know she'll pay it back somehow.
She hasn't been to bed in a week, she'll be dead soon, then she'll sleep - Last night on earth

I can't let you go, like a preacher stealing hearts at a travelling show - Desire

Blessing are not just for the ones who kneel, luckily - City of Blinding lights

In dreams begin responsibilities - Acrobat

I can easily go on and on...

 

[Laird/Bono]

"...You're the reason why, the opera's in me. "

 

[Doozer6I]

ELEVATION !!!

 

[moussy]

Dressing like your sister
Living like a tart
They don't know what you're doing
Babe, it must be art
You're a headache
In a suitcase
You're a star

They want you to be Jesus
They'll go 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


In my dream I was drowning my sorrows
But my sorrows, they 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
'til the end of the world

& lyrics to: WTSHNN, Always, Bad, The Fly