Single Greatest Line Of Any U2 Song

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There's one thing I can read. :angry:

What's the use of religion, if YOUR any good.
I know I'm weedkiller honey, and YOUR sugar(though that could be proper..
YOUR ice..

:madwife: Back to school for you Bono. Learn the difference between your/you're and lose/loose.


:hmm: Could he not be talking about ice and sugar in the possessive though? And maybe even your religion? Maybe not, but he does write "you're" in another line... he knows the difference but maybe it was just scribbled down quickly and originally intended for no one else to see. Of course you could be right. :wink:
 
Your ice, and I'm water. No way he means possessive there.
The sugar part, could be, but it sounds like he's singing you're. (I'm honey, you're sugar)
The reglion part is just plain wrong, I can't see how that could ever be correct. If it means your religion it should be if yourS is any good?

:tsk: Even when scribbled down quickly, it's no excuse. Bono needs to come over here so I can teach him some proper grammar.

:shifty: I'm willing to give 1 on 1 lessons.
 
Your ice, and I'm water. No way he means possessive there.
The sugar part, could be, but it sounds like he's singing you're. (I'm honey, you're sugar)
The reglion part is just plain wrong, I can't see how that could ever be correct. If it means your religion it should be if yourS is any good?

:tsk: Even when scribbled down quickly, it's no excuse. Bono needs to come over here so I can teach him some proper grammar.

:shifty: I'm willing to give 1 on 1 lessons.

Oh yeah I forgot to go back and listen to the song to hear how he is pronouncing them! He actually says "If you are ice" there, and doesn't even use the contraction.

Looks like you're on for those lessons! :up: :wink:
 
Great ones for each album:

Boy:

Into the heart:

Into the heart, into the heart of a child
I can't go back
I can't stay awhile.

October:

October and kingdoms rise
And kingdoms fall
But you go on
And on.

War:

Sunday bloody sunday:

And the battle's just begun
There's many lost, but tell me who has won?

The Unforgettable Fire:

And if the mountains should crumble
Or disappear into the sea
Not a tear, no not I.

Bad:

To let it go and so to find away.

I'm wide awake, I'm wide awake, wide awake
I'm not sleeping

The Joshua Tree:

Where the streets have no name:

The city's a flood, and our love turns to rust.

With or without you:

My hands are tied, my body bruised
She got me with nothing to win
And nothing else to lose.

Running to stand still:

She will suffer the needle chill
She's running to stand still.

Trip through your wires:

Angel, angel or devil?
I was thirsty
And you wet my lips.

Rattle and Hum

Desire:

She's the candle burnin' in my room
Yeah, I'm like the needle
The needle and spoon

Achtung Baby:

Zoo Station:

Time is a train
Makes the future the past
Leaves you standing in the station
Your face pressed up against the glass

One:

One life with each other: sisters, brothers.

The Fly:

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.

So Cruel:

The night is bleeding like a cut
Between the horses of love and lust we are trampled underfoot.

Acrobat:

And don't let the bastards grind you down.

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.

Zooropa:

Lemon:

He turns his money into light to look for her.

Stay:

Red lights, grey morning
You stumble out of a hole in the ground.
A vampire or a victim
It depends on who's around.

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

Pop:

Mofo:

Mother, you left and made me someone.
Now I'm still a child, but no one tells me no.

Gone:

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.

Please:

September, streets capsizing
Spilling over down the drains
Shard of glass, splinters like rain
But you could only feel your own pain.

All that you can't leave behind:

Kite:

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

How to dismantle an atomic bomb:

Vertigo:

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

All because of you:

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

No line on the horizon:

Moment of surrender:

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 speeding on the subway
Through the stations of the cross
Every eye looking every other way
Counting down 'til the pain would stop

Unknown Caller:

I was right there at the top of the bottom
On the edge of the known universe where I wanted to be

Fez-Being Born:

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

White as snow:

Of course there's many more. :D

The road refuses strangers
The land the seeds we sow
Where might we find the lamb as white as snow

Breathe:

I've found grace inside a sound
I found grace, it's all that I found
And I can breathe
Breathe now
 
^ Way to narrow it down...:lol: (which I wouldn't even attempt, btw)

But couldn't help but notice these ommissions from NLOTH:

vision over visability
meet me in the sound
choose your enemies carefully
 
"There is a silence that comes to a house/Where no one can sleep"
 
"I'm wide awake...I'm not sleeping"

Very powerful vocally, but the lyrics also add up making it even more powerful.
 
One of the newer lyrics I really like:

Time is irrelevant, it's not lineair!
 
This gem written by Bono and Daniel Lanois I think has some fantastic lines... can't pick so I just copied over the entire song.

Falling at your feet

Every chip from every cup
Every promise given up
Every reason that's not enough
Is falling, falling at your feet

Every band elastic limit
Every race when there's nothing in it
Every winner that's lost a ticket
Is falling, falling at your feet
I've come crawling, falling at your feet

Every one who needs a friend
Every life that has no end
Every knee not ready to bend
Is falling, falling at your feet
I've come crawling, now I'm falling at your feet

All fall down

All the manic days, faces that pull All fall down
All the x-rays not under your control All fall down
The graphitti running down for futile All fall down
And the compromise you make for someone

Every teenager with acne
Every face that's spoiled by beauty
Every adult tamed by duty
Are all falling at your feet

Every foot in every face
Every cop stop who finds the grace
Every prisoner in the maze
Every hand that needs an ace
Is falling, falling at your feet
I've come crawling, I'm falling at your feet

All fall down

All the books you never read All fall down
Just started All fall down
All the meals you rushed All fall down
And never tasted

Every eye closed by a bruise
Every plan that just can't lose
Every pop star hurling abuse
Every drunk back on the booze
All falling at your feet
I'm falling at your feet

All fall down

All the information All fall down
All the big ideas All fall down
All the radio waves All fall down
Electronic seas All fall down
How to navigate All fall down
How to simply be All fall down
The truth knows when to wait All fall down
Explained simplicity All fall down
In whom shall I trust All fall down
How might I be still All fall down
Teach me to surrender
Not my will
Thy will

So beautiful!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oryzIVsU-Ns
 
"I'm only hanging on...to watch you go down........my love" - Bono at his most disturbing

"Carnival..the wheels fly and the colours spin, through alcohol...red wine that punctures the skin" - always dug that for some reason

"she runs through the streets, with her eyes painted red, under a black belly of cloud in the rain...in through a doorway, she brings me...white gold and pearls stolen from the sea" - just beautiful, and sad

"some days are bouncers that won't let you in" - so true, in fact my day today was kinda like that
 
"These days, days, days run away like horses over the hill" - Dirty Day

"Get your head out of the mud baby" - Zooropa (I don't think it's necessarily the line that gets me, it's mainly how Bono sings it - the "babay" part :drool:)

"Is there a time for keeping your distance
A time to turn your eyes away
Is there a time for keeping your head down
For getting on with your day" - Miss Sarajevo :drool:

"You don't know how you took it, you just know what you got, Oh Lord you've been stealing from the thieves and you got caught" - Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me

Honestly, anything from the 90's is the greatest line in my book haha

But I think my favorite line of all time would be:

"When I was all messed up, and had an opera in my head...your love was a lightbulb hanging over my bed" - Ultraviolet (Light My Way) <--lyrically, this is my favorite U2 song.
 
A man with a suitcase,
full of things he doesn't need
I'm looking through your window
I'm walking through your doorway
I'm on the outside
Let me in
Let me love you
Let me love you
Let me...

-Walk to the Water -

gets me every time, followed by that solo. :drool:
 
"What you don't have, you don't need it now" - Beautiful Day

"Oh, you look so beautiful tonight" - City of Blinding Lights - I know that it's simple and cliche, but it works so well with the song. I just love it.

"A vampire or a victim, it depends on who's around." - Stay (Faraway, So Close)
 
My favorite ones:

EXIT
"Like the sweet revenge of a bitter enemy"

LOVE IS BLINDNESS
"Take the money, honey. It's blindness"

"Love is clockworks, and cold steel, fingers too numb too feel".

"In a parked car,
in a crowded street.
You see your love,
made complete".

RUNNING TO STAND STILL
"You gotta cry without weaping,
talk without speaking,
scream without raising your voice".

UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD
"I kissed your lips and broke your heart".

WAKE UP DEAD MAN
"Jesus help me, im alone in this world and a f*cked up world it is too".
 
"The more you see, the less you know"
"The more you know the less you feel" - "City of blindig lights", so true...
 
Almost everything that comes out of Bono's mouth is poetry to my ears!!:heart:
Even the occasional "Soldier brings oranges he got out from a tank.". Riiight:huh:

I'll try not to repeat ones that have already been quoted multiple times!:wink:

"You miss too much these days if you stop to think." (Until the End of the World)

"They look for you but your spirit is in the air
Baby... you're nowhere...
And you don't know if it's fear or desire
Danger the drug that takes you higher?...
Between the horses of love and lust
We are trampled underfoot." (So Cruel)

"How far are you gonna go
Before you lose your way back home?" (Trying To Throw Your Arms Around The World"

And you can dream
So dream out loud
And you can find
Your own way out...
In dreams begin
Responsibilities." (Acrobat)

"There is no failure here sweetheart
Just when you quit." (Miracle Drug)

"Two souls too smart to be
In the realm of certainty...
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." (Moment of Surrender)

"But can you stand up to beauty, dictator of the heart" (Stand Up Comedy)

"What once was hurt
What once was friction
What left a mark
No longer stings
Because grace makes beauty
Out of ugly things" (Grace)

And soooo many more!!:heart::cute: I'd marry Bono's mind if it were ever possible:lol:
 
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