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Vertigo lyrics?

Vertigo
Version: Studio (3:11) First Appears On: Vertigo Single, 2004
Written By: U2 / Bono & The Edge Performed By: U2

Unos, dos, tres, catorce
Turn it up there, captain

(Rock as hard as you can tonight)

Lights go down, it's dark
The jungle is your head
Can't rule your heart
A feeling so much stron-ger
Than a thought
Your eyes are wide
And though your soul
It can't be bought
Your mind can wander

Hello, hello (¡Hola!)
I'm at a place called Vertigo (¿Dónde está?)
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 that 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 around her neck
Swinging to the music
Swinging to the music

Hello, hello (¡Hola!)
I'm at a place called Vertigo (¿Dónde está?)
It's everything I wish I didn't know
But you give me something
I can feel, feel

(Shot dead)
(Sure is a fall)
(Showman in in yeah)

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 (¡Hola!)
We're at a place called Vertigo (¿Dónde está?)
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, kneel

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, (yeah)

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, (yeah)

[English Translation (thanks Bryan)]

Uno, does, tres, catorce = One, Two, Three, Fourteen
Hola = Hello, or yep.
Dónde está = Where is (that)?
 
Checkmated!!! Vertigo lyric?!

Does anyone hear in the BBC Radio 1 and CD:UK performances of Vertigo Bono sing:

"Checkmated!
Hours of fun!!"

instead of what people have been saying was:

"Shot dead
Shots fall
Show me, yeah"

in the studio version?

I know that Bono likes to play chess...
 
I saw the performance -- but I didn't realize what the hell Bono was singing!

So, thanks!:wink:
 
Re: Checkmated!!! Vertigo lyric?!

bort269 said:


"Checkmated!
Hours of fun!!"

instead of what people have been saying was:

"Shot dead
Shots fall
Show me, yeah"

Now that I listen to the studio version, I also hear:

"Checkmated!
Hours of fun!!"

at 1:46 into the song.

Does anyone agree, or am I smoking crack?
 
Yeah I knew he was saying hours of fun but I didnt catch what he the line before and after was...

so its checkmated
hours of fun
(...then what?...)
 
Holy cow, breaking news! The lyrics of Vertigo! Wow, they're even better after the 20th time I read them...:eyebrow: :yawn:

Way to copy and paste bud! :rolleyes: :bow:
 
Needle_Chill, rudeness like that towards another member is uncalled for and not allowed here.
 
Needle_Chill said:
Holy cow, breaking news! The lyrics of Vertigo! Wow, they're even better after the 20th time I read them...

Way to copy and paste bud!

Uh, Needle_Chill, maybe you need to stop RUNNING TO STAND STILL and actually chill on the whole BAD thing (if you know what I mean)

The original post made 5 days ago is still interesting because I don't think everyone agrees with it:

"(Shot dead)
(Sure is a fall)
(Showman in in yeah)"

I think it's:

"Checkmated
Hours of Fun
(I have no idea)"

and other sites have:

"Shot dead
Shots fall
Show me, yeah"

But hey, if it makes you feel better to bag on someone... that's your problem, I'll just remind U2_Guy:

"Don't let the Needle_Chills grind you down"
 
Re: Checkmated!!! Vertigo lyric?!

bort269 said:
Does anyone hear in the BBC Radio 1 and CD:UK performances of Vertigo Bono sing:

"Checkmated!
Hours of fun!!"

instead of what people have been saying was:

"Shot dead
Shots fall
Show me, yeah"

in the studio version?

I know that Bono likes to play chess...

I was right, I opened up the lyrics on my copy of HTDAAB:

Check mated
Oh yeah
Hours of fun…
 
Bonochick said:
Needle_Chill, rudeness like that towards another member is uncalled for and not allowed here.

Geez, I don't even remember posting that... must have been a bad day... :shrug:

Very sorry U2_Guy, and all you guys! :(
(Won't happen again...)
 
Some have speculated that the whole "shots fall" thing was a backing vocal track from "Native Son" that made it onto "Vertigo" either by mistake or because Bono had not made up better words yet. Just because he's singing that "hours of fun" now doesn't mean that's what's pressed into the cd. We all know our lovely Bono is a bit of a revisionist (am I the only one who thinks it's creepy that he interchanges 'mother' and 'lover' on "I Will Follow"?), after all...


Personally, I think it sounds like he's saying "jazzaphone." But I won't float that one for consideration as the true lyric. ;)
 
bono needs some serious help annunciating...
how can we be debating "hours of Fun" with "Shots fall" or "jazzphone" - they aren't even close to sounding alike.

and the last line "Not bad, not bad at all" - I hear "Joe Namath":wink:

that is totally absurd !
 
Shots fall isn't from native son, as on native son, he just sings 'yeah yeah yeah'
 
To me it sounds like

"checkmated.... just fall.... you're a millionaire now."
 
Ellay said:
Shots fall isn't from native son, as on native son, he just sings 'yeah yeah yeah'

Well, sure, it's not on the version we've heard, but there could be 50 other versions of it. I dunno, you got a better explanation for what sounds like "shots fall"? (Like, better than my "jazzaphone"? :wink: )
 
thousandfold said:

I dunno, you got a better explanation for what sounds like "shots fall"? (Like, better than my "jazzaphone"? :wink: )

I think this topic will never die, as I still don't know what he sings in ANOTHER TIME ANOTHER PLACE (that part at the end in Gaelic or German...)

also, even on ELEVATION:

at 1:11 to 1:14 he says:

"ah...pick it up and stick it hot?"
"ah...take it out and don't smoke pot?"
"ah...dig it up it still is hot?"

i have no clue...
 
*refuses to go listen to all the different versions to see what he's saying in each one. Won't do it, no*
besides - you are all probably right knowing how Bono changes, forgets, ad libs, and just generally messes around with his lyrics :rolleyes: It's all good but sometimes annoying....:wink:
 
thousandfold said:


Well, sure, it's not on the version we've heard, but there could be 50 other versions of it. I dunno, you got a better explanation for what sounds like "shots fall"? (Like, better than my "jazzaphone"? :wink: )


Not at all, I'm sold on Jazzphone..
 
FYI, this is what I hear (in the studio version) :

[...]
Check mated
Shines above
Show me near, near, near...
[...]

And now, about what it could mean... how could I know ? Damn it, it's not even in my mother tongue !
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